A Two-Week Mega-Dose of Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout Outs
Our runners-up this week are highlighted by a Latham team who landed a $1.8 billion settlement for electric vehicle battery maker LG Energy Solution in its trade secret showdown with SK Innovation, a settlement that was praised by the White House.
April 16, 2021 at 07:25 AM
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It's a mighty impressive slate of litigation wins you all wracked up over the past two weeks, so let's get straight to them.
A team at Latham & Watkins led by partners David Callahan and Bert Reiser gets our first runner-up spot this week for landing a $1.8 billion settlement for electric vehicle battery maker LG Energy Solution in its trade secret showdown with SK Innovation. The settlement comes just two months after the full U.S. International Trade Commission adopted the holdings of an earlier ruling from an administrative law judge who entered a default judgment against SK based on a "document deletion campaign" mounted in anticipation of the ITC investigation, a win that also landed the Latham team runner-up honors. The White House issued a statement praising the settlement calling it "a win for American workers and the American auto industry" given its impact on the country's ability to ramp up electric vehicle battery production. Hogan Lovells and government relations firm Peck Madigan Jones also played leading roles in securing the settlement for LGES. The Hogan Lovells team was led by senior counsel Ted Essex and partner Joe Raffetto, Ivan Zapien, and Kelly Ann Shaw.
Also getting a runner-up nod this week are Keith Harrison and Jeane Thomas of Crowell & Moring who won a ruling allowing pro bono client Crosley Green, whom they've represented for more than a decade. A federal judge in Florida released Green to reside with his family as the state appeals a ruling the Crowell team previously won overturning his conviction in the 1989 shooting death of Charles "Chip" Flynn. U.S. District Court Judge Roy Dalton Jr., who previously overturned Green's murder conviction, granted the firm's motion for conditional release writing that there was "a strong interest in the release of a prisoner whom the court has found to be incarcerated in violation of the Constitution." Green's counsel also includes Crowell partner Vincent Galluzzo, pro bono specialist Virginia Martin, former partner Robert Rhoad, and Florida counsel Mark Olive.
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