A Fresh Batch of Litigator of the Week Runners-Up
Litigators from Bartlit Beck, Covington & Burling, Dechert and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher are among the runners-up this week.
July 29, 2022 at 07:25 AM
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Our first runners-up honors go to Sean Gallagher and his team at Bartlit Beck—Andrew MacNally, Daniel McElroy, Alex Groden and Will Gohl—and their co-counsel Barbara Bolton Litten and Gregor Schwinghammer Jr. of Gunster. After a three-week trial, a federal jury in West Palm Beach, Florida, sided with their client Pratt & Whitney finding the jet engine company was not liable for a cancer cluster in children in The Acreage neighborhood in western part Palm Beach County. Although jurors found the company failed to exercise reasonable care in disposing of radioactive materials, they found that failure didn't lead to material ending up in the neighborhood.
Runners-up honors also go to Covington & Burling global white collar co-chair Steve Fagell and partner Doug Sprague. Last week they secured a non-prosecution agreement for Uber after a multi-year criminal investigation by federal prosecutors in San Francisco into allegations that the company's former Chief Security Officer concealed a 2016 data breach and obstructed an investigation by the Federal Trade Commission. Federal prosecutors acknowledged in the agreement that Uber's new leadership team voluntarily disclosed the breach in 2017 and "established a strong tone from the top" that "strengthened the company's culture of compliance and transparency." The Covington team advising Uber included special counsel Kate Thompson and associates Grady Jung, Adam Stempel, Alyssa Vallar and Majid Waheed.
A Dechert team led by Marty Black and Kassie Helm get a runners-up nod after representing Conagen and Blue California in a multifaceted dispute with Givaudan, a Swiss maker of flavors, fragrances and cosmetics. After a bench trial in June, U.S. District Judge John Koeltl in Manhattan found earlier this month that a $10 million payment Gibaudan made to Conagen was for a 5% equity stake in Conagen. That finding turned back Givaudan's contention that the $10 million was an advance payment for Conagen's intellectual property. The Dechert trial team included associates Luke Reilly and Charles Hsu, senior paralegal Sarah Rattle, and legal assistants Diana Melegrito and Morgan Wilde.
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