Welcome to “Who Got the Work?℠,” a weekly column that highlights the law firms and lawyers who are being brought in to handle key California cases and close major deals for their clients.

In this week’s column, a Soviet chess champion takes on Netflix over a depiction of her in “The Queen’s Gambit”; a creative director alleges Pinterest failed to pay her for co-creating the platform; and Los Angeles Police Department staff claim a vaccine mandate for city employees violates their constitutional rights.