Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout Outs
Last month we gave a Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher team runners-up honors for fending off a preliminary injunction in a high-profile trade secret spat. Welp, it's only fair that we give their opposing counsel at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan a runners-up nod for getting a ruling this week denying a motion to dismiss in the case.
August 27, 2021 at 07:25 AM
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Litigators
Last month we gave a Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher team runners-up honors for fending off a preliminary injunction for Archer Aviation in a high-profile trade secret spat with Wisk Aero in the emerging market for electric vertical takeoff and landing, or eVTOL, aircraft. Welp, it's only fair that we give their opposing counsel at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, Yury Kapgan and Patrick Schmidt, a runners-up nod for getting a ruling this week denying Archer's motion to dismiss the case. "Archer's motions to dismiss and strike are denied because Wisk's disclosure and identification of its trade secrets are sufficient and it has plausibly alleged that Archer misappropriated at least some of them," wrote U.S. District Judge William Orrick III in San Francisco. On to the merits, then, for round three.
A team led by Quinn's Sean Pak also gets runners-up honors for landing a $13.5 million compensatory damages verdict for cybersecurity company Proofpoint Inc. and its Cloudmark subsidiary in trade secrets litigation against competitor Vade Secure and a former Cloudmark employee. The verdict followed a 4-week in-person jury trial in San Francisco federal court. The jury found that Vade willfully and maliciously misappropriated 15 of the 20 trade secrets asserted in the case, opening the door for Proofpoint to ask the judge for punitive damages and attorney's fees under the Defend Trade Secrets Act. The trial team also included Quinn's Iman Lordgooei and Jodie Cheng of the JWC Law Firm.
A team from Morgan, Lewis & Bockius secured a runner-up worthy result for former industrial conglomerate ITT LLC in a case dealing with insurance coverage for "long tail" asbestos-related suits. Following 18-years of litigation and four distinct trial phases, a state court judge in Los Angeles who oversaw the latest trial last month adopted ITT's position that alleged bodily injury begins at exposure and continues triggering multiple policy years. The court further found that triggered policies have to respond to ITT's losses when called upon. The Morgan Lewis team was led by Paul Zevnik, David Cox and Jay Konkel, with assistance from associates Chris Popecki, Teri Diaz and Michelle Arra.
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