And the LOTW Runners Up...
As befitting the first day of summer, competition was hot for Litigator of the Week. Honorable mention goes to lawyers from Munger Tolles; Skadden; Latham & Watkins; Hunton Andrews and Debevoise.
June 21, 2019 at 11:22 AM
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As befitting the first day of summer, competition was hot for Litigator of the Week.
Our runners up include Munger, Tolles & Olson partners Kelly Klaus and Blanca Young. They prevailed on behalf of Disney, Warner Bros. and other Hollywood studios when a California federal jury ordered movie streaming service VidAngel to pay $62 million in statutory damages.
The Munger Tolles team convinced the jury that VidAngel—which uses software to remove sex, violence and profanity from movies—willfully pirated iconic movies such as Star Wars and Harry Potter by copying and streaming them to their customers.
A team from Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom led by Greg Luce and Matt Sloan won summary judgment for Kinetic Concepts Inc. and KCI USA Inc., beating back a $500 million False Claims Act suit.
After more than 10 years of litigation, a federal judge in the Central District of California rejected the whistleblower's claim that that KCI committed fraud by allegedly billing certain patient claims to Medicare improperly.
At Latham & Watkins, Tara Elliott, Michael Morin and Max Grant scored for Adobe Inc. in patent litigation in the Eastern District of Virginia. After adverse summary judgment rulings, Adobe—which faced up to $150 million in liability—tapped Latham to defend against patent infringement allegations by plaintiff TecSec Inc.
The jury awarded TecSec damages of just $1.75 million, which were then vacated by U.S. District Judge Liam O'Grady.
After a four-week trial, Hunton Andrews Kurth partners Harry Manion and Martin Gaynor won a jury verdict of more than $20 million against the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center over dredging related to construction of a marine terminal. The Suffolk County, Massachusetts jury also rejected the defendant's $12 million counter-claim.
And Debevoise & Plimpton's Catherine Amirfar and Donald Francis Donovan notched a victory before the International Court of Justice on behalf of Qatar in an ongoing dispute with the United Arab Emirates. The fight involves an allegedly discriminatory blockade the UAE imposed on Qatar.
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