It’s been a smackdown kind of week in the arts world. Now, a lawsuit has relatively little pugilistic value, but you would think the literary types would get a bigger charge out of the terse words that get bandied about in court papers instead resorting to slap and tickle at chi-chi eateries (the whiff of Mailer wafts through the dining room).
Not to be outdone but those damned scribbling men, yesterday Studio Libeskind made good on their threat and threw down in a big way,
filing suit against developer Larry Silverstein for the fee they demanded back in May. The Observer has the dish, and the Times has the details. Nina Libeskind outlines the rationale for the amount, and it is pretty rational (using generally accepted billing standards, though their claim of 25% of schematic development will be hard to quantify, not due to their failure to document, but because of the impossibility of establishing what is the signficant intellectual contribution to schematic plans, and who provided it), and they clarify their position vis-a-vis timesheets: namely that they don’t keep them. For anyone. Let’s hope they have a real good employment lawyer, ’cause everyone knows you don’t keep timesheets to please clients, but to fend off the government (how many office have you been in where CAD jockeys and model builders were exempt employees?). Libeskind gets a vote of confidence from Rampe in the article, and another one this morning when they sat side-by-side at the New York New Visions roundtable at the Center for Architecture (recap hopefully this afternoon).
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Now this is how you do a bitchslap.
It’s been a smackdown kind of week in the arts world. Now, a lawsuit has relatively little pugilistic value, but you would think the literary types would get a bigger charge out of the terse words that get bandied about in court papers instead resorting to slap and tickle at chi-chi eateries (the whiff of Mailer wafts through the dining room).
Not to be outdone but those damned scribbling men, yesterday Studio Libeskind made good on their threat and threw down in a big way,
filing suit against developer Larry Silverstein for the fee they demanded back in May. The Observer has the dish, and the Times has the details. Nina Libeskind outlines the rationale for the amount, and it is pretty rational (using generally accepted billing standards, though their claim of 25% of schematic development will be hard to quantify, not due to their failure to document, but because of the impossibility of establishing what is the signficant intellectual contribution to schematic plans, and who provided it), and they clarify their position vis-a-vis timesheets: namely that they don’t keep them. For anyone. Let’s hope they have a real good employment lawyer, ’cause everyone knows you don’t keep timesheets to please clients, but to fend off the government (how many office have you been in where CAD jockeys and model builders were exempt employees?). Libeskind gets a vote of confidence from Rampe in the article, and another one this morning when they sat side-by-side at the New York New Visions roundtable at the Center for Architecture (recap hopefully this afternoon).