Our first runners-up this week are Bart Williams, Manuel Cachán, Lee Popkin and Shawn Ledingham who led a Proskauer Rose trial team that scored a defense verdict in California state court for Monsanto in a five-month trial where the plaintiff claimed the company’s herbicide Roundup caused her non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Although the company had won one prior defense verdict based on a separate Roundup plaintiff’s limited exposure to the product, last week’s verdict from a San Bernardino County Superior Court jury was the first to side with Monsanto on the question of general causation.
Cooley partner Michael Tu and senior associate Peter Brody get a runner-up nod this week for winning an injunction in the Delaware Court of Chancery for Hologram Inc., a cellular platform for internet-of-things developers. Greg Caplan, an early advisor to the company, claimed he was entitled to a 10% equity stake in Hologram based on a 2013 email exchange with company founder Ben Forgan. But Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick this week sided with the reading of the exchange put forward by Forgan and company and barred Caplan from moving forward with a private arbitration filed against the company in Illinois. Michael Barlow of Abrams & Bayliss served as Delaware local counsel for Hologram.
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