Miriam Akhavan-Tafti (Associate-Los Angeles) authored the article “Lights, Camera, Negotiation: When Mediation Fails Women,” published in the April 23, 2025, edition of the Daily Journal. The article discusses the challenges women often face in entertainment industry labor disputes, highlighting difficulties involving contract negotiations and securing just compensation. Miriam examines the logistics, merits, and disadvantages of the mediation process for dispute resolution and explores how “its constructs may not be built to ensure women are treated fairly in entertainment disputes.” Other topics discussed include alternatives to prevail at trial, how the current statute language, meant to provide broad protections for all employees, can be circumvented to hinder enforcement of women’s protections, and “the need for statutory law to be further developed so that women will be able to pursue their interests via mediation.”