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The lawyers of Taylor Swift fight against Justin Baldoni in Blake Lively's complaint

Taylor Swift's long -standing lawyers ask a court It ends with usJust a few days after Swift's own representatives beat Baldoni because they targeted the pop star with a similar summons.

In Washington, DC -based law firm Venable, which SWIFT has been representing for more than a decade, unveiled in an application on Monday (May 12th) that the lawyers from Baldoni served on April 29 to search for all messages between the law firm and lively, the actress Ryan Reynolds and/or her lawyers, the actress, the actress Actress, and/or her lawyers of the actress who was looking for the actress husband of the actress and/or/or her lawyers Michael Gottlieb on the other hand.

The summons specifically name drops Douglas BaldridgeA venable partner who has worked with Swift since 2013 and recently returned to the company after a time as General Counsel at your company 13 management.

“Venable had nothing to do with the film or one of the claims or defenses in the underlying lawsuit,” the company wrote in a so -called application for cancellation, which if it were granted would expose the document request. “There is no reason for this summons than to distract from the facts of the case and to impose inadequate burden and costs.”

The law firm described Baldoni's summons as a “fishing expedition” and found that “even if Venable was somehow involved (not again), the documents that Baldoni is looking for should be obtained from Lively and Reynolds. Discovery process ”.

The revelations of the venable summons are carried out only a few days after the representatives of Swift had confirmed that they were also served with a document request in the Baldoni Lively feud. As a representative of Swift, the language reflected in Venables movement, she said she had no participation It ends with us And slammed the summons as “for the name of Taylor Swift to arouse public interest by creating boulevard -clickbait instead of concentrating on the facts of the case.”

Venable did not return a request for statement, nor were there repetitions for Swift, Lively, Reynolds or Baldoni.

The It ends with us The legal dispute began when LIVELY BOBBSHELL claimed in December that Baldoni, her co-star and director of the film published last summer, was sexually harassing her on the set and then orchestrated a PR campaign to recover her after she complained.

Baldoni vehemently denied the claims and countered LIVELY for defamation and other misconduct in January. Baldoni's suit said lively used her close relationship with a “Megacelebrity friend”, who is probably fast to take control of the film.

The Baldoni registration contains text messages to a suspected session in which “Ryan and Taylor” took part, which apparently relate to Reynolds and Swift. In a message sent by LIVELY, actress Swift and Reynolds called their “most trustworthy partners” and compared them to the “dragons” on the show game of Thrones.

“The news could not have been clearer,” wrote the lawyers from Baldonis. “Baldoni was not only to do with Lively. He also stood with Lively's 'Dragons', two of the most influential and wealthy celebrities in the world who were not afraid to make things very difficult for him.”

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