Quinn Emanuel Secures Two Litigator of the Week Runner Up Honors

A great week for Quinn Emanuel – two Litigator of the Week Runner Up honors!

Congratulations to Bill Burck, Avi Perry, Christopher Clore, Fritz Scanlon, Brett Raffish, Rachel Frank Quinton, Matthew Feibert, and Richard Ong on their recognition!

The team secured a rare federal acquittal for client Yongchul "Charlie" Kim and co-defendant Meghan Messenger, Co-CEOs of tech company Next Jump, on charges of conspiracy, bribery, and illegal gratuities in D.C. federal court. The government alleged that Charlie and Meghan induced four-star Admiral Robert Burke, the former Vice Chief of Naval Operations, to award Next Jump a Navy contract in exchange for a post-retirement job offer. Burke had already been convicted and sentenced to six years on the same charges. The Quinn Emanuel team demonstrated that Charlie and Meghan viewed the contract and job as entirely separate and legitimate, and that Burke himself had assured them there was no conflict of interest. After a two-week retrial, the jury deliberated for less than a day before unanimously acquitting both defendants on all counts.

Congratulations also to Chris Michel, Mike Lyle, and Jonathan Cooper on their recognition!

Chris argued a successful Fourth Circuit mandamus petition on behalf of Express Scripts in opioid-related public nuisance litigation brought by roughly 120 West Virginia local governments. The unanimous panel ruled that Express Scripts is entitled to a jury trial, with U.S. Circuit Judge Julius "Jay" Richardson writing that "The Seventh Amendment entitles litigants to a jury trial unless the claim would have been heard, and the remedy awarded, by courts of equity at the Founding." The team also included Charles "Chuck" Bailey and Justin Taylor of Bailey & Wyant, and William Ihlenfeld and Maximillian Nogay of Flannery | Georgalis.