Blizzard Activision Sued Over Company Culture - Page 19

On September 11 2021 07:48 Emnjay808 wrote:
Interesting to see if Blizz will do anything of substance before/during next year blizzcon (assuming COVID cases are down by then)

On September 21 2021 04:32 Zambrah wrote:
God, I am so fucking glad this isn't just completely fading from the news. It may be exhausting and shitty, but its nice that this might not just be completely swept under the rug.

Bobby Kotick getting some SEC attention is also something I relish.

On September 21 2021 04:39 WombaT wrote:

Inb4 someone comments about how Kotick is simultaneously a genius responsible for Activision’s successes and status as a financial juggernaut but powerless and impotent to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace.

On September 21 2021 05:46 cha0 wrote:


By someone you mean Jimmy ?

On September 22 2021 05:39 WombaT wrote:

Which prominent Jimmy?

On September 22 2021 06:05 MineraIs wrote:


We all knew Jim Raynor was a dirty bastard from the start.

On September 22 2021 05:39 WombaT wrote:

Which prominent Jimmy?

On September 25 2021 05:10 Timebon3s wrote:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Kotick

Sounds like a really good person -_-

Bobby Kotick and Andrew Gordon, head of Goldman Sachs investment banking division in Los Angeles, created Cove Management as a company to manage a private Gulfstream III private jet they jointly owned. They hired former actress Cynthia Madvig as a flight attendant.

In 2006, pilot Phil Berg allegedly began a pattern of sexual harassment towards Madvig. She reported this to Gordon, who ignored her complaints. Shortly after she reported this harassment, Kotick fired her.

In January 2007, Madvig filed a lawsuit for sexual harassment, wrongful termination, failure to prevent sexual harassment, and retaliation against her for reporting sexual harassment. Kotick, Gordon, and Berg denied all allegations in February 2007. At this time, they were represented by law firm Sullivan & Cromwell.

In April 2007, Kotick, who led the defense, switched attorneys to Christensen, Glaser, Fink, Jacobs, Weil & Shapiro. Patricia Glaser advised them to settle for $200,000. Kotick refused on principle, alleged by the arbitrator that "[he] would not be extorted and that [he] would ruin the Plaintiff and her attorney and see to it that Ms. Madvig would never work again."[21]

Christensen, Glaser et al stopped representing Kotick in December 2007. Kotick hired the firm Bingham McCutcheon and then, in April 2008, also hired Gibson Dunn & Crutcher. Kotick, Gordon, Berg, and Cove settled with Madvig in April 2008, paying $200,000 plus Madvig's legal fees of $475,000.

Kotick paid Glaser's firm $200,000 in September 2007, stating that amount was a full settlement of their fees and costs. Glaser disagreed, claiming that the total amount owed was over $1 million. Following Kotick's settlement with Madvig, his dispute with Glaser's firm went into arbitration. In February 2009, Glaser's firm was awarded $938,458 plus $479,898 for legal fees and costs incurred in the arbitration, for a total of $1.42 million.

Kotick, who during the Madvig case stated that "[he] was worth one-half billion dollars and he didn't mind spending some of it on attorneys' fees" rather than settle, asked the court to reduce the award by $111,753. The court denied this request and ordered Kotick to pay Glaser in full. Kotick appealed to the California Court of Appeal. On July 6, 2010, the appeal court affirmed the lower court's ruling.