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Nancy Chemtob speaks to Slate Magazine about the movie “Marriage Story” and the similarities between the litigators in the movie and litigators in real life.

Slate Magazine
December 6, 2019

Slate Magazine: “Holy Crap, Do We Come Off Like That?”

A celebrity divorce lawyer, Nancy Chemtob, gives her comments on Laura Dern and Ray Liotta’s sniping litigators in Marriage Story. “I really liked it,” Chemtob said when asked how she enjoyed the film.

“Doing it for a living, it was hard to watch. I have to tell you, it was one of those movies that when I walked out, I felt like I should be able to bill my time for watching that movie. It was very accurate. You felt the pain of the clients and the kid,” said Chemtob.

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A celebrity divorce lawyer, Nancy Chemtob, gives her comments on Laura Dern and Ray Liotta’s sniping litigators in Marriage Story. “I really liked it,” Chemtob said when asked how she enjoyed the film.

“Doing it for a living, it was hard to watch. I have to tell you, it was one of those movies that when I walked out, I felt like I should be able to bill my time for watching that movie. It was very accurate. You felt the pain of the clients and the kid,” said Chemtob.

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