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Will Trove of Details Salvage Fee Award in Egg Price-Fixing Case?
Publication Date: 2012-09-10
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In hopes of winning approval of a $7.5 million fee award in a nationwide antitrust class action, plaintiffs lawyers from 35 firms were forced to reveal nearly 2,000 pages of billing information, and to disclose an unprecedented range of details about how they worked together to litigate the case.

Jury Orders Cisco to Pay $70 Million for Hanging Up on XpertUniverse
Publication Date: 2013-03-22
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A federal jury in Delaware found Friday that Cisco caused the demise of XpertUniverse by backing out of a business partnership with the tiny tech company. Cisco lost on one count of fraudulent concealment and on two counts of infringing XU patents on methods of putting businesses in touch with call-center experts.

Stars from Shearman & Sterling and Baker Botts Defect to Start Litigation Boutique
Publication Date: 2009-09-28
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If there is a firm model built for the dawning post-recession era, it's probably a litigation boutique with low overhead and a flexible billing structure. That model has attracted two new converts: Steven Molo of Shearman & Sterling and Jeff Lamken of Baker Botts have announced that they're leaving their firms to start up MoloLamken.

October 25, 2005 | Law.com

Attorneys in Exxon Case Battle Over Millions in Fees

A member of the team of plaintiffs attorneys who represented thousands of gas station owners claiming to have been ripped off by oil giant Exxon once referred to the giant federal class action case as "a sinking ship." Instead, the plaintiffs went on to land a jury verdict of roughly $1.3 billion. But after years of fighting the oil giant, the attorneys have turned on each other, claiming credit for the victory and seeking a bigger piece of an estimated $440 million in fees.
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Baker & McKenzie, Chinese Clients Try to Undo Vitamin C Price-Fixing Award
Publication Date: 2013-04-12
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Two Chinese manufacturers of vitamin C have started the process of trying to overturn a $162 million price-fixing verdict. The companies' defense counsel at Baker & McKenzie filed three new motions on their behalf on Thursday.

The Dam Breaks: Intellectual Ventures Files Three Patent Infringement Complaints in Delaware
Publication Date: 2010-12-08
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Yes folks, the gargantuan patent aggregator that earned $2 billion without ever filing an infringement suit is no longer a litigation virgin. It's using three different law firms to prosecute patents against Hynix, McAfee, Symantec, and Altera.

Lawyers Forced to Scramble for Fees in Eggs Price-Fixing Case
Publication Date: 2012-07-19
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The Philadelphia federal judge overseeing natiowide litigation over alleged egg price-fixing has a penchant for cracking chicken jokes in her rulings on the case. But when it comes to the issue of attorney fees for class counsel, the judge isn't fooling around.

January 20, 2000 | Law.com

Microsoft's 'Other' Case Settles Fast

Some day, Richard A. Posner, the judge who has been trying for more than a month to mediate a settlement of the government's mammoth monopoly case against Microsoft, might want to compare notes with James A. Smith Jr. A daylong mediation with Smith, of Seattle's Smith & Leary, produced a settlement in a $1.6 billion private lawsuit against Microsoft.
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May 16, 2006 | Law.com

1st Circuit Rejects a Class Action Ban

The 1st Circuit is the second federal circuit to tell a company offering consumer services that it cannot simply ban class actions by inserting a provision in an arbitration clause in its contracts. Consumer lawyers have lauded the court's decision as the first to recognize that bans deprive plaintiffs of the ability to exercise their statutory rights under federal antitrust law. The 9th Circuit and the California Supreme Court have struck down class action waivers as illegal under California law.
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May 09, 2007 | Law.com

Federal Judge Certifies Antitrust Class Against Comcast

A federal judge in Philadelphia has certified a class action antitrust suit against cable television giant Comcast that alleges the company set out to establish monopolies in the Philadelphia and Chicago markets and then increase prices once it had eliminated all the competition. The ruling could reverberate throughout the cable industry because the suit alleges that many of the big cable companies cooperated in carving up much of the nation into separate markets where each would be exclusive providers.
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