High stakes don’t faze Robert Giuffra Jr. The trick, he said, is to concentrate on “credibility and simplicity and figuring out what the winning strategy is in the case.”
Certainly, the litigator has amassed an impressive winning streak with that strategy. He won a bankruptcy court ruling in June 2014 relieving satellite companies Dish Network Corp. and EchoStar Corp. of $4 billion in liability. The judge rejected allegations they illegally tried to effect a takeover of wireless communications provider LightSquared Inc. by having their joint co-founder buy its debt. Giuffra’s cross-examination of Philip Falcone, LightSquared’s founder, was masterful, said R. Stanton Dodge, Dish’s general counsel. “He’s a great strategist,” Dodge said.
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