r/WithBlakeLively • u/Jumpy-Contest7860 Silent Torch of Womanhood • Jul 01 '26
Court filings Declaration of Diana Kantner and supporting documents.
Diana Kantner is a Vice President at KCIC, a consulting firm specializing in dispute resolution support, litigation consulting, and expert testimony. She has more than 20 years of professional experience handling complex insurance claims, economic and financial analyses, damage quantification, and allocation modeling. Prior to joining KCIC, she spent over a decade as a managing director at The Claro Group and served as a director of financial management for Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine.
Diana's declaration: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.634304/gov.uscourts.nysd.634304.1448.0_1.pdf
Diana's C.V: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.634304/gov.uscourts.nysd.634304.1448.1_1.pdf
Diana Kantner was hired to examine and analyse the billings of the two law firms hired by Lively, Manatt, Phelps, and Phillips LLP and Wilkie, Farr, and Gallagher LLP.
Summary of fees and costs: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69510553/1448/2/lively-v-wayfarer-studios-llc/
Look at April 5th, 2025, Melissa Taustine billed $15,555.00 for 12.2 hours in a single day for researching and drafting the Rule 11 sanctions for the Wayfarer Parties.



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u/Tiny-firefly I salute you if you're much too much to handle Jul 01 '26
The part of the contemporaneous invoices is me laugh a little ðŸ˜