As of January 2008, our partners have tried 578 jury cases to verdict, winning 517 or 89.5%. They have also won 390 out of 415 bench trials, and 233 out of 252 arbitrations. The combined record for all trials and arbitrations is 1140 wins out of 1245, or 91.6%. When representing plaintiffs, our lawyers have garnered over $10 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 are lead counsel for Nokia against Qualcomm in multi-jurisdictional litigation that is probably the biggest intellectual property case in the world. We were selected to do the stock options back-dating investigation for Apple. 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. We continue to represent Parmalat in three multi-billion dollar cases and recently obtained a $150 million settlement from Deloitte & Touche. 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.