As of December 2011, our partners have tried 676 jury cases to verdict, winning 596 or 88.2%. They have also won 447 out of 477 bench trials, and 283 out of 307 arbitrations. The combined record for all trials and arbitrations is 1326 wins out of 1460 or 91%. When representing plaintiffs, our lawyers have won over $15 billion in judgments and settlements.
Perhaps the best evidence of our reputation for delivering results is our recent engagements. Morgan Stanley, for example, retained us to retry the $1.6 billion Perelman case in Florida, if it is ever retried. That is an example of a very sophisticated company, engaging our firm to defend it in its biggest case, in a jurisdiction where we do not even have an office. We were retained by Motorola to do the retrial of a trade secrets case against Willy Gary, a well-known plaintiffs' lawyer. We represented Seiko Epson in one of the largest patent infringement cases ever filed with the International Trade Commission, and after a trial obtained a complete plaintiff’s victory and a broad exclusion order. We obtained a jury verdict on behalf of Occidental Petroleum and secured a nine-figure settlement before the damages phase of the trial. We obtained a $75 million arbitration award on behalf of limited partners of a hedge fund. One of our young partners regularly represents AIG in the high-profile AIG/Maurice Greenberg battles. In almost every one of these cases we had to compete against the largest and best firms in the United States.
It is no wonder that The American Lawyer described us as “Better. Faster. Tougher. Scarier.” See a representative list of our notable trials and settlements.