And the LOTW Runners Up...
Honorable mention goes to lawyers from Shook, Hardy & Bacon; Dechert; O'Melveny & Myers; Quinn Emanuel; Pepper Hamilton; Nixon Peabody; Mayer Brown; Norton Rose and Gibson Dunn.
October 04, 2019 at 02:31 PM
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Our runners up for Litigator of the Week include Shook, Hardy & Bacon's Hildy Sastre and Jon Strongman. They successfully defended Sanofi-Aventis in the first bellwether trial over the chemotherapy drug Taxotere. After a two-week trial, federal jury in New Orleans deliberated for less than two hours before siding with the defense across the board in the closely-watched test case.
A team of Dechert lawyers led by partners Dennis Hranitzky and Michael McGinley won a significant alter-ego decision in the Southern District of New York against the Republic of Moldova and gas distribution company AO Moldovagaz. Dechert's client, Gater Assets, is seeking to enforce a judgment now worth $30 million that Lloyd's Underwriters obtained against Moldovagaz and Moldova in 2000.
O'Melveny & Myers partner Abby Rudzin got a putative securities class action in the Southern District of New York dismissed with prejudice against online game developer Shanda Games and its current and former officers and directors. The claims were in connection with a 2015 going-private transaction. That's not all. Rudzin in the past week also got a putative securities class in the SDNY dismissed with prejudice against Skechers USA and its CEO and COO.
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan's Tara Lee and Robert Raskopf persuaded U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton in D.C. to dismiss claims of "hot news appropriation" and copyright infringement against media giant Bloomberg by The Capitol Forum. Cap Forum argued that Bloomberg reporters summarized its copyrighted reports in their articles, and induced its subscribers to commit copyright violations.
Also at Quinn Emanuel, partner Derek Shaffer on behalf of Americans for Prosperity persuaded a federal judge in New Jersey that the state may not enforce a new law requiring disclosure of certain "dark money" campaign contributions pending a First Amendment challenge.
Pepper Hamilton lawyers led by partner Marion Hack convinced an Orange County, California jury to reject a $100 million claim against their clients URS and AECOM, and to award the engineering design firm $5 million. The fight with Atkinson/Walsh was over contracts related to a $1.2 billion project to improve California's State Route 91.
Nixon Peabody partners Staci J. Riordan and Kristin Jamberdino led a team in getting allegations of trademark infringement, unfair competition and false designation of origin, copyright infringement, and unjust enrichment dismissed with prejudice against fashion retailer Express, LLC.
Mayer Brown's Carmine Zarlenga and Norton Rose Fulbright's Saul Perloff scored a $31 million jury verdict on behalf of two flange makers in a false advertising and unfair competition suit. (See my prior story on the case here.)
And last week's winner Randy Mastro of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher notched another win, this one a pro bono effort on behalf of good government group Citizens Union (of which he happens to be the chair). Their suit challenged two provisions of a 2016 state law that compelled the public disclosure of nonprofit donor information as unconstitutional. SDNY Judge Denise Cote stuck down the law on First Amendment grounds.
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