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California-Based Quinn Emanuel Sharpens N.Y. Edge
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges is moving its New York office for the fourth time in about five years. The relocation is one more sign of a growth spurt -- in Manhattan and elsewhere -- for the Los Angeles-based firm, which last year saw its revenues increase by about 20 percent, to $193 million. With an emphasis on IP and business fraud cases, the firm hopes to build on its West Coast success in taking high-stakes New York disputes to trial, says name partner William Urquhart.
Support Staff Hit Hardest by Firm Closures
The back-to-back closures of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison and Skjerven Morrill have triggered a hiring free-for-all as law firms scramble to snap up hundreds of suddenly available attorneys. But for every lawyer now on the job market, there's one or more support staff in a similar situation. While announcements trumpeting former Brobeck and Skjerven partners' new firms are an almost daily occurrence, the prospects for the orphaned paralegals, secretaries and librarians are decidedly less rosy.Ex-Broadcom Exec Seeks 9th Circuit Rehearing on Plea Bargain
Broadcom Corp. co-founder Henry Samueli has petitioned the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider reinstating his rejected plea bargain with the federal government in a criminal investigation of stock options backdating. Samueli's attorneys argue that his appeal should be reheard because it "presents an important issue of first impression in this Circuit -- whether a district court's attempt to coerce a defendant to waive his fundamental Fifth Amendment privilege is immediately reviewable."Finding Mistrial Decision Premature, 2nd Circuit Bars Retrial of White-Collar Defendants
A judge's hair-trigger declaration of a mistrial without polling the jury means the government is now barred by double jeopardy from retrying two white-collar defendants. In what lawyers say is an unprecedented decision, the 2nd Circuit said that U.S. District Judge Leonard Wexler abused the considerable discretion given judges for declaring a deadlocked jury. The ruling is a victory for Michael DeGennaro and Frank Borghese, who were accused of fraudulent practices designed to boost company stock prices.Pillsbury Gets Richmond Tax Struck Down
A voter-approved measure that hiked Chevron's business tax in Richmond from $60,000 a year to $20 million was struck down, though the cash-strapped city may appeal.
Infringement Claim Meets Watery Demise
A month-long patent infringement trial in August 2006 between Matsushita Electric Industrial and Samsung Electronics had the makings of a painfully complex ordeal for jury and judge: a slog through brain-numbing minutiae of computer circuitry. To make the trial as engaging to jurors as possible, Samsung's defense team decided to use water to tell its story. It arranged fabrication of a 15-gallon, clear plastic water tank -- dubbed "AquaChin" -- to demonstrate how Samsung's circuits work.
A New Test for Workplace 'Horseplay'
The Delaware Supreme Court recently allowed an employee injured by horseplay on the job to bring a personal injury suit against co-workers. For the first time, the court has accepted the so-called "Larson test," ruling that a trial judge must look at whether the co-workers' conduct involved horseplay "outside the scope of employment" under the four-part Larson test. A pipefitter and welder had sued his co-workers after they detained him in a bathroom and wrapped him from ankles to shoulders in duct tape.SEC Tells Marvell, Exec to Expect Suits
The Securities and Exchange Commission has notified Marvell Technology and one of its top officers that it plans to sue over stock option backdating. The semiconductor maker has announced in SEC filings that it received a Wells notice -- a letter from the SEC announcing an intent to seek financial penalties -- for the company itself. Weili Dai, the ex-COO and current head of marketing and business development who was demoted this year after an internal investigation, also received one, the company said.N.Y. Panel Rejects Review Of Tobacco Fee Award
New York's Appellate Division, 1st Department, on Thursday shut down a judge's sua sponte inquiry into a $625 million fee award to six firms that represented New York state in a lawsuit against the tobacco industry that netted a $25 billion settlement. Though finding "laudable" Justice Charles E. Ramos' concern that the fee award might be "excessive," the appellate judge found him wrong, and in instances dead wrong, on every legal conclusion he had to reach in order to proceed with his inquiry.Trending Stories
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