In a dramatic escalation of the LA Reid Atty Sex Assault Suit, music producer Drew Dixon has asked a New York federal judge to sanction the former attorneys of music mogul Antonio “L.A.” Reid, alleging their “unreasonable and vexatious conduct” caused severe delays — including the last-minute derailment of a September trial.
Dixon’s attorneys filed a fiery memorandum on Friday, demanding that the firm Kinsella Holley Iser Kump Steinsapir LLP (KHIKS) pay at least half of the “reasonable fees and costs” accrued during July and August, accusing them of stalling “every step” of the litigation.
The KHIKS team has not yet responded to requests for comment.
Trial Pushed to January Amid File Dispute
The case, filed in November 2023 under the New York Adult Survivors Act, had been slated to go before a jury in early September. But in an eleventh-hour twist, the trial was postponed to January 2025, just two weeks before its start date.
According to Dixon’s attorneys, the court had explicitly warned Reid that he would have to represent himself if he failed to secure new counsel in time. Yet when Reid arrived at an Aug. 25 pretrial conference with new lawyers, they revealed they had never received his litigation file — allegedly because KHIKS hadn’t handed it over.
“KHIKS’s failure to give defendant his litigation file so that he could prepare to represent himself … could only have been done for the purpose of delaying the trial,” Dixon’s lawyers argued in their motion.
