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Christopher Tayback
Los Angeles Office Tel: 213-443-3000 Fax: 213-443-3100 christayback@quinnemanuel.com Practice Areas Antitrust and Trade Regulation Class Action Litigation Government Contracts Litigation Intellectual Property Litigation Real Estate Litigation Securities Litigation White Collar Defense and Internal Investigations Education
Harvard Law School (J.D., cum laude, 1989)
University of Notre Dame (B.A., magna cum laude, 1985) |
Biography
Before joining the firm in 1997, Chris Tayback spent eight years as a prosecutor. He was a Deputy District Attorney in Los Angeles County from 1989-1991, where he tried over 20 cases before juries in the municipal and superior courts. He then served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Central District of California, Criminal Division, where he prosecuted another 20-plus jury trials in district court and litigated approximately 40 appeals before the Ninth Circuit, receiving numerous awards from the various federal and local law enforcement agencies with which he worked. Mr. Tayback has continued to try, and win, jury trials in a broad range of subject matters, including patent infringement, class actions, real estate, construction, partnership disputes, contracts and fraud. All told, he has tried over 100 cases, including over 50 jury trials--civil and criminal--in state and federal courts in California, Arizona and Massachusetts. He has represented both plaintiffs and defendants with equal success: for example, in the past two years, he has obtained a $128 million patent infringement jury verdict representing plaintiffs, and he has obtained a defense verdict in a $200 million class action. He has been rated "AV" by Martindale Hubbell, its highest rating. Mr. Tayback annually serves as a visiting trial advocacy instructor at Harvard Law School. He has appeared on ABC television's "Nightline" discussing criminal law issues, and has had his cases featured on the television program "Arrest and Trial." He has represented lawyers in court proceedings and in investigations and hearings conducted by the Department of Justice, the Securities Exchange Commission and the United States Senate. Representative Clients
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Notable Representations
Won $128 million jury verdict in patent infringement case for Freedom Wireless against 12 defendants over telephone systems and methods. The trial lasted 15 weeks. The verdict was the largest ever awarded in Massachusetts, and was the eighth biggest verdict awarded in the U.S. that year. The case settled for a lump sum payment of $87 million, plus on-going royalties which are expected to generate an additional $50 million.
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