Justin Baldoni is opposed to the bread -up order against the Bryan Freedman legal team

Justin Baldoni’s team retaliated with a request from Blake Lively lawyers aimed at imposing silence on their lawyer Bryan Freedman, accused of having actually pursued the alleged defamation campaign against the actress by disclosing information and making false statements to the press.

Baldoni lawyers and his associates, in a letter tabled Thursday, claim that these measures were necessary to protect their customers from the benefits of The New York Times Article which they describe as triggering of the argument with stretch and assembled texts and emails. The negative reactions aroused by this story have been “completely calamitous”, indicates the file, the It ends with us The director and his team are “exiled from Polie” and undergo damage “totaling hundreds of millions of dollars due to the media campaign of Ms. Lively’s burnt”.

This legal maneuver is part of the civil rights trial in Lively, tabled in a New York Federal Court at the beginning of the month, accusing Baldoni of sexual harassment during the shooting of It ends with usAnd he and his associates for having developed a sophisticated plan to undermine his reputation in retaliation for having denounced sexual abuse on the shooting of the film after the release of the film. Baldoni, who made and played in the film alongside Lively, filed her own complaint last week against the actress and her husband Ryan Reynolds, claiming at least $ 400 million in damages. He is represented by unreserved lawyer Bryan Freedman, who does not hesitate to speak to the press (at some point, he warned that he would pursue any person linked to certain “heinous” behaviors and make it fall “In oblivion”).

Tuesday, a few hours after the Baldoni team provided the media images of the shooting of It ends with us Let them claim to justify them, the lawyers of Lively asked the court supervising his trial to impose a silence of silence against Freedman. Michael Gottlieb, representing the actress, said that the flight of these images, among other actions in the middle of the media blitz, violates various rules relating to the professional conduct of lawyers, in particular that which prohibits lawyers from making declarations outside of the legal proceedings which could have an impact on the case. By biaring potential jurors.

But Kevin Fritz, another Baldoni lawyer, says there is an exception to the rule that authorizes the necessary statements to protect customers from the benefits of negative advertisement that they have not caused. He said that the Baldoni legal team protected him from the media campaign in Lively.

Among the examples of alleged attacks of Lively, let us quote the description of Baldoni as of an “aggressor” and his trial as “another chapter of the manual of abuse” for Hollywood journalist. Lively’s lawyer also refers in the letter, qualifying the disclosed images of “overwhelming”.

“After having publicly formulated ruinous allegations which the Wayfarer Parties can prove that they are false, the Lively Parties now invoke the disciplinary rules of lawyers as an intimidation tactic,” said Thursday’s letter. “The desire of the Lively Parties to force the Wayfarer Parties to defend themselves in private against allegations formulated publicly does not constitute an appropriate base for a gag. It is a tactical game and it is scandalous.

A spokesperson for Lively refused to comment.