First up are Steve Pollinger and his team at McKool Smith who represented Mojo Mobility Inc. in patent litigation against Samsung Electronics. After a week-long trial, federal jurors in Marshall, Texas hit Samsung with a $192 million verdict last week, finding the company willfully infringed upon five Mojo patents covering wireless charging technology. The jury also denied Samsung's invalidity and obviousness defenses. The McKool Smith team also included principals Samuel Baxter, Kevin Burgess, Charles Fowler Jr., Ryan McBeth, Chris McNett and Jennifer Truelove, senior counsel Neil Ozarkar and associates George Fishback Jr. and Kenneth Scott.

A team at Debevoise & Plimpton led by partner Maura Monaghan and counsel Kristin Kiehn secured a win for RentGrow Inc. at the Fourth Circuit in a case brought on behalf of a man whose tenant screening report mistakenly said his name appeared on a Treasury Department list of terrorists, drug traffickers and other serious criminals. The appellate court last week reversed a class certification order in the Fair Credit Reporting Act case brought on behalf of Marco Fernandez. The court found he lacked standing since evidence didn't show that anyone read or understood the incorrect information. "Reputational harm can be a concrete injury, but only if the misleading information was brought to the attention of a third party who understood its defamatory significance," wrote Circuit Judge Allison Jones Rushing. The Debevoise team also included associate Emilia Brunello and additional counsel at Baker & Hostetler.