CAA added a barrage of latest allegations to a lawsuit towards a rival agency on Monday, alleging that former workers illegally accessed CAA databases and stole commerce secrets and techniques after they left to kind Vary Media Companions in 2020.

CAA first sued Vary final fall, claiming the agency was constructed on deceit and betrayal. In an amended criticism filed Monday, the company says it has since uncovered “paperwork, images, and video footage” via discovery that “reveal the depth of Vary’s dishonesty.”

Mick Sullivan, who left CAA to assist kind Vary, is accused within the swimsuit of emailing himself shopper “rundowns,” which detailed each assembly the shoppers had taken and initiatives they have been monitoring. Not less than a type of shoppers instantly left CAA when Vary shaped.

Sullivan can be accused of emailing himself a whole lot of pages of assembly notes, which detailed data on a whole lot of initiatives and potential initiatives that had been gathered for CAA shoppers. Sullivan additionally allegedly pressured a CAA assistant to ship him extra details about shoppers, together with lists totaling almost 200 scripts that had been despatched to them.

The swimsuit alleges that different Vary workers additionally stole confidential data, together with by pressuring CAA workers who remained on the firm. Paige Wandling, an assistant at CAA who left to develop into a supervisor at Vary, is accused of utilizing a CAA “mole” to acquire a whole lot of confidential paperwork.

“Over a course of weeks, Wandling requested, and Empoyee-1 offered, CAA’s confidential data dozens of instances,” the swimsuit alleges. “The stolen data included, by the use of instance, inner CAA emails, intensive details about movie and TV alternatives for expertise, scripts, trade contacts, CAA memos, CAA grids, and knowledge on CAA conferences and enterprise initiatives.”

In line with the criticism, Wandling provided to pay the CAA mole for this data, and actually did so.

The criticism argues that CAA’s commerce secrets and techniques are important to creating the corporate — and the trade — run. Brokers collect data from studios, producers, administrators and writers, and put it right into a database so it may be sorted and shared internally. Brokers additionally accumulate delicate data from shoppers, together with their monetary data, profession targets and so forth.

“This shopper confidential data is immeasurably precious to opponents who may use it to grasp the actual nuanced wants, motivations, and negotiating techniques of CAA’s shoppers,” the criticism states.

CAA’s preliminary lawsuit, filed final fall, accused Vary of “unfair competitors,” arguing that it had devised a scheme to get round California’s expertise company legislation by claiming to be a administration agency.

Vary has moved to throw out that swimsuit, arguing it was legally faulty. The amended lawsuit retains the preliminary claims whereas including accusations of theft of commerce secrets and techniques and unauthorized pc entry.

Orin Snyder, who represents Vary within the litigation, denied the allegations in an announcement.

“CAA management is at it once more — utilizing baseless litigation to go after former colleagues out of bruised egos and petty vengeance,” he stated. “Vary didn’t steal commerce secrets and techniques or the rest belonging to CAA. This case isn’t grounded in details or legislation; it’s fueled by resentment. Vary was constructed on integrity and earned shopper belief. Whereas CAA wastes time on spiteful lawsuits, Vary is targeted on what issues: working collaboratively with CAA at giant to service the 150+ shoppers they share. We’re assured we’ll prevail — as a result of the reality, the legislation, and the trade are on our facet.”