A Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan trial team led by Alex Spiro takes the first runner-up spot this week. For the past three-and-a-half weeks, Spiro and company defended Jay-Z at trial in Manhattan Supreme Court. Perfume company Parlux Fragrances LLC was seeking $68 million in damages, claiming the rapper hadn’t fulfilled his contractual obligations to promote the Gold Jay-Z branded eau de toilette. As Spiro put it in his summation: “Why on Earth would Jay-Z put his name on one product and only one product in his entire career and want that product to fail?”
After a little more than two hours of deliberations, jurors sent the company away empty-handed. (Jurors also denied Jay-Z’s claims that he was due unpaid royalties.) The Quinn Emanuel trial team also included Ellyde Thompson, Michael Lifrak, Cory Struble, Allison McGuire and Phillip Jobe.
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