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Jury Rejects California Commissioner's Claims Against François Pinault's Company
Publication Date: 2012-10-30
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Gibson Dunn helped client Artemis SA fend off $4.3 billion in claims brought by California's insurance commissioner. A holding company controlled by French businessman François Pinault, Artemis was the last defendant left in a case stemming from the 1991 insolvency of Executive Life Insurance Company. On Monday, a U.S. district court jury in Los Angeles returned a verdict of no damages against Artemis.

January 28, 2010 |

Judge Rules That Sand Hill is Just Another Place

The Northern District judge threw out a trademark suit this week in which one Silicon Valley company sued another with the same name.
3 minute read
March 13, 2007 |

Firms Look for Key to Grow Hedge Fund Practices in San Francisco

New York hedge fund specialist Sadis & Goldberg opened a San Francisco office March 1. Sadis partner Dennis Hirsch says the move was to better tap the California market, which according to Hirsch is the second-largest in the country for hedge funds and private equity funds. But Sadis' arrival elicits barely a yawn from the region's more-established hedge fund practitioners, many of which are busy looking for new hires to feed growing practices. That talent appears to be very specialized -- and very scarce.
5 minute read
September 19, 2007 |

Qualcomm Firms Seek to Pierce Privilege

Heller Ehrman lawyers want to defend themselves against charges of discovery misconduct. And they hope a judge will order their client to break confidentiality so they can do it.
4 minute read
September 19, 2007 |

Qualcomm Firms Seek to Pierce Privilege

With the threat of formal sanctions bearing down on them, lawyers at Heller Ehrman and Day Casebeer Madrid & Batchelder -- Qualcomm's former litigation counsel -- are asking for a rare exception to privilege so they can explain to a judge how their side failed to produce thousands of relevant documents during discovery in an ill-fated patent case against Broadcom. In advance of an October hearing to show cause why they should not be sanctioned, many of the outside counsel have hired their own lawyers.
4 minute read
September 20, 2007 |

Ex-Qualcomm Lawyers Ask Judge to Pierce Privileged Communications

Attorneys who once represented Qualcomm Inc. in its ill-fated federal patent case against Broadcom Corp. have asked a judge to pierce their client�s privileged communications.
4 minute read
September 19, 2007 |

Qualcomm Firms Seek to Pierce Privilege

With the threat of formal sanctions bearing down on them, lawyers at Heller Ehrman and Day Casebeer Madrid & Batchelder -- Qualcomm's former litigation counsel -- are asking for a rare exception to privilege so they can explain to a judge how their side failed to produce thousands of relevant documents during discovery in an ill-fated patent case against Broadcom. In advance of an October hearing to show cause why they should not be sanctioned, many of the outside counsel have hired their own lawyers.
4 minute read
March 11, 2003 |

Fears Mount Among Frank's Valley Friends

Frank Quattrone may have been a darling of Silicon Valley's technology elite during the Internet boom, but no one is clamoring to be a "Friend of Frank" these days. Securities lawyers fear that even a passing acquaintance with investment banker Quattrone will land them in the negative spotlight. Quattrone, the former head of the technology banking group at Credit Suisse First Boston, was charged last week by the NASD for violating a basketful of industry rules.
5 minute read
April 17, 2001 |

California Patent Lawyer Indicted

Malcolm Wittenberg, the head of Oakland, Calif.-based Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May's patent practice, was indicted on felony insider trading charges. The allegations stem from the 1999 merger of Forte Software Inc. and Sun Microsystems Inc. Wittenberg, who was Forte's patent attorney, bought 2,000 shares in the company, which he sold once the deal was completed.
4 minute read
April 04, 2005 |

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Farella lawyer�s sabbatical a slippery slope; At bat; Opening night.
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