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Marilyn G. Haft Partner, Duval & Stachenfeld LLP www.dsllp.com

Viktoria Hertling Coauthor of The Road to Rescue: The Untold Story of Schindler’s List http://www.unr.edu/chgps

Co-host Jack Girardi Girardi & Keese www.girardikeese.net

Marilyn G. Haft joined Duval & Stachenfeld as a partner in 2004 to establish and now co-chair the Entertainment and Media Practice Group of the Firm. She specializes in the business and legal affairs of the multimedia and communication industries, including the film, television and publishing sectors. She represents film and television production and distribution companies as well as individuals in those businesses, with a specialty in structuring financing for those enterprises.  In addition, she maintains impressive credentials and diverse contacts in the entertainment and political fields. Marilyn has been a law partner at a number of firms and was a test case constitutional law litigator at the national level for six years when she litigated in the State and Federal courts across the country including the U.S. Supreme Court.

She has served as General Counsel and Managing Director of a financial services company that provided short-term funding requirements for major film studios, independent film producers/distributors, cable and record companies.  She was responsible for co- creating the financing structure of the transactions, and conducted due diligence on all contractual and cash flow related matters. Marilyn was also General Counsel to a publicly traded multimedia acquisitions company, where she was responsible for all aspects relating to acquisitions, including intellectual property issues involving patent, copyright, trademark and trade secrets. She is an award-winning independent film producer and has worked at NBC News and ABC News on content and production and as a producer on Peter Jennings’ specials. She was Executive Producer of an American Playhouse feature film, as well as an Emmy award-winning documentary on Preston Sturges for “American Masters” on National Public Television.  She acted as a co-producer of “Grace is Gone,” the John Cusack movie that won the Audience Award and Best Screenplay Award at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. Most recently she acted as a co-producer on two films chosen for the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, “Diminished Capacity,” starring Matthew Broderick, Virginia Madsen and Alan Alda, and “ Birds of America,” starring and co-produced by Hillary Swank.

Marilyn served the Carter Administration as Associate Director of the Office of Public Liaison in the White House, Deputy Counsel to Vice President Walter Mondale in the White House and as a U.S. Representative to the United Nations. She was the head of the New York City primary campaign for Carter/Mondale in 1980. She was an Adjunct Professor at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Film and TV, where she taught entertainment law and business to third year graduate students. She is an author of general non-fiction books, including legal works. Marilyn is a graduate of the New York University School of Law where she taught as an adjunct professor, and she is a member of the Bars of New York State, the District of Columbia and the US Supreme Court.

Viktoria Hertling is the coauthor of The Road to Rescue: The Untold Story of Schindler’s List. Steven Spielberg’s Oscar-winning film Schindler’s List popularized the true story of a German businessman who manipulated his Nazi connections and spent his personal fortune to save some 1,200 Jewish prisoners from certain death during the Holocaust. But few know that those lists were made possible by a secret strategy designed by a young Polish Jew at the Plaszów concentration camp. Mietek Pemper’s compelling and moving memoir, written in conjunction with Viktoria, tells the less-known story of how Schindler’s list really came to pass. ??Pemper was born in 1920 into a lively and cultivated Jewish family for whom everything changed in 1939 when the Germans invaded Poland. Evicted from their home, they were forced into the Krakow ghetto and, later, into the nearby camp of Plaszów where Pemper’s knowledge of the German language was put to use by the sadistic camp commandant Amon Göth. Forced to work as Göth’s personal stenographer–an exceptional job for a Jewish prisoner–Pemper soon realized that he could use his position to familiarize himself with the inner workings of the Nazi bureaucracy and exploit the system to his fellow detainees’ advantage. Once he gained access to classified documents, Pemper was able to pass on secret information for Schindler to compile his famous lists. After the war, Pemper was the key witness for the prosecution in the 1946 trial against Göth and in trials against several other SS officers. The Road to Rescue stands as a historically authentic testimony of one man’s unparalleled courage, wit, defiance, and bittersweet victory over the Nazi regime.

Jack Girardi, Partner at Girardi & Keese, one of America’s Finest Law Firms, and lawyers, as always, brings out the most important key elements to the success of today’s guests. He and his firm have been dedicated to working hard and getting the best possible recovery for its clients.

Girardi & Keese's mission is to provide aggressive representation of individuals and businesses who have been injured in some way, whether by physical harm, property damage, damage to business, or damage to economic interests. Girardi & Keese has two offices in California: Downtown Los Angeles and San Bernardino.

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Marilyn G. Haft
212-692-5527
Duval & Stachenfeld LLP
www.dsllp.com

Viktoria Hertling
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Road-to-Rescue/
Mietek-Pemper/e/9781590512869/?itm=1

Co-host Jack Girardi
Girardi & Keese
213-977-0211
www.girardikeese.net

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER & HOST:
STEVE MURPHY      
      
http://www.lbishow.com/