U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission headquarters in Washington, D.C. 83 Firms to SEC: Don't Tread on Me
The firms all signed onto an amicus brief opposing the regulator's effort to compel Covington & Burling to disclose confidential client information.
February 22, 2023 at 03:42 PM
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The original version of this story was published on The American Lawyer
Eighty-three law firms, including many across the Am Law 100, signed onto an amicus brief this week in an effort to influence the outcome of Covington & Burling's dispute with regulators over a subpoena seeking the identities of nearly 300 clients accessed during a 2020 cyberattack.
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- Adams and Reese
- Akerman LLP
- Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A Shroff & Co
- Hunton Andrews Kurth
- Arnold & Porter
- Ausley & McMullen
- Baker Botts
- Baker McKenzie
- Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC
- Balch & Bingham
- Ballard Spahr
- Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP
- Brown Rudnick LLP
- Caplin Drysdale Chartered
- Clark Hill
- Clyde & Co
- Covington & Burling
- Cozen O'Connor
- Cravath, Swaine & Moore
- Crowe & Dunlevy
- DLA Piper
- Debevoise & Plimpton
- Dechert
- Dentons
- Dorsey & Whitney
- Duane Morris
- Dykema Gossett
- Fenwick & West
- Fish & Richardson
- Goldberg Kohn Bell
- Goodwin Procter
- Goulston Storrs
- Greenbaum Rowe Smith
- Harness Dickey Pierce
- Haynes and Boone
- Hill Ward Henderson
- Hogan Lovells
- Honigman LLP
- Jenner & Block
- Jones Day
- K&L Gates
- Keker, Van Nest & Peters
- Kelley Drye & Warren
- Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
- Kindel & Anderson
- King & Spalding
- Kirkland & Ellis
- Latham & Watkins
- Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie
- Loeb & Loeb
- Lowenstein Sandler
- McNees Wallace & Nurick
- Merchant Gould
- Milbank LLP
- Morrison & Foerster LLP
- Nutter McClennen Fish
- O'Melveny & Myers
- Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP
- Paul Hastings
- Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Warton & Garrison
- Perkins Coie
- Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman
- Potter Anderson & Corroon
- Robinson & Cole LLP
- Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis
- Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP
- Seyfarth Shaw
- Shearman & Sterling LLP
- Shook Hardy & Bacon
- Shutts & Bowen
- Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
- Smith, Gambrell & Russell
- Snell & Wilmer
- Spencer Fane
- Squire Patton Boggs
- Stoel Rives
- Thompson Hine
- Vinson & Elkins
- Vlp Law Group Llp
- Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP
- Weintraub Tobin Chediak
- Williams & Connolly
- Willkie Farr & Gallagher
- Winston & Strawn LLP
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Who Got The Work
Michael G. Bongiorno, Andrew Scott Dulberg and Elizabeth E. Driscoll from Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr have stepped in to represent Symbotic Inc., an A.I.-enabled technology platform that focuses on increasing supply chain efficiency, and other defendants in a pending shareholder derivative lawsuit. The case, filed Oct. 2 in Massachusetts District Court by the Brown Law Firm on behalf of Stephen Austen, accuses certain officers and directors of misleading investors in regard to Symbotic's potential for margin growth by failing to disclose that the company was not equipped to timely deploy its systems or manage expenses through project delays. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Nathaniel M. Gorton, is 1:24-cv-12522, Austen v. Cohen et al.
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Edmund Polubinski and Marie Killmond of Davis Polk & Wardwell have entered appearances for data platform software development company MongoDB and other defendants in a pending shareholder derivative lawsuit. The action, filed Oct. 7 in New York Southern District Court by the Brown Law Firm, accuses the company's directors and/or officers of falsely expressing confidence in the company’s restructuring of its sales incentive plan and downplaying the severity of decreases in its upfront commitments. The case is 1:24-cv-07594, Roy v. Ittycheria et al.
Who Got The Work
Amy O. Bruchs and Kurt F. Ellison of Michael Best & Friedrich have entered appearances for Epic Systems Corp. in a pending employment discrimination lawsuit. The suit was filed Sept. 7 in Wisconsin Western District Court by Levine Eisberner LLC and Siri & Glimstad on behalf of a project manager who claims that he was wrongfully terminated after applying for a religious exemption to the defendant's COVID-19 vaccine mandate. The case, assigned to U.S. Magistrate Judge Anita Marie Boor, is 3:24-cv-00630, Secker, Nathan v. Epic Systems Corporation.
Who Got The Work
David X. Sullivan, Thomas J. Finn and Gregory A. Hall from McCarter & English have entered appearances for Sunrun Installation Services in a pending civil rights lawsuit. The complaint was filed Sept. 4 in Connecticut District Court by attorney Robert M. Berke on behalf of former employee George Edward Steins, who was arrested and charged with employing an unregistered home improvement salesperson. The complaint alleges that had Sunrun informed the Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection that the plaintiff's employment had ended in 2017 and that he no longer held Sunrun's home improvement contractor license, he would not have been hit with charges, which were dismissed in May 2024. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer, is 3:24-cv-01423, Steins v. Sunrun, Inc. et al.
Who Got The Work
Greenberg Traurig shareholder Joshua L. Raskin has entered an appearance for boohoo.com UK Ltd. in a pending patent infringement lawsuit. The suit, filed Sept. 3 in Texas Eastern District Court by Rozier Hardt McDonough on behalf of Alto Dynamics, asserts five patents related to an online shopping platform. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap, is 2:24-cv-00719, Alto Dynamics, LLC v. boohoo.com UK Limited.
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