By Ross Todd | February 2, 2024
A team led by Greg Varallo and Jeroen van Kwawegen of Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann and David Tejtel of Friedman Oster & Tejtel secured a post-trial ruling from Delaware Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick finding that when it came to the Tesla CEO's pay package "Musk launched a self-driving process, recalibrating the speed and direction along the way as he saw fit."
By Ross Todd | April 14, 2023
A team led by Asher Griffin, Alex Spiro and Kathleen Sullivan of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan convinced U.S. District Judge William Orrick III to toss the earlier damages verdict against Tesla. In the damages retrial, jurors awarded $3.2 million to a Black former contract worker at the company's plant in Fremont, California.
By Ross Todd | February 10, 2023
Quinn's Alex Spiro, Andrew Rossman and Bill Price got a defense verdict finding Elon Musk and Tesla weren't liable for investor losses after Musk's 2018 tweet that he had "funding secured" to take Tesla private.
By Ross Todd | January 24, 2023
In a securities case accusing Musk of lying about securing funds to take Tesla private, he asked a lawyer for the plaintiffs about efforts to subpoena a Saudi official who might be able to answer questions about the deal.
By Ross Todd | October 3, 2022
"We're a firm where the leaders are in the trenches, as opposed to the leaders being in a corner office dictating policy," Giuffra said.
By Ross Todd | August 26, 2022
The punitive damages win last week by Jim Butler of Butler Prather for the family of a couple who died after the roof of their F-250 pickup collapsed in a rollover crash marked his eighth verdict of more than $100 million.
By Ross Todd | May 6, 2022
Delaware Vice Chancellor Joseph Slights last week found the deal process was "far from perfect," but the price Tesla paid for SolarCity was "entirely fair" — a win for Musk and his trial team led by Evan Chesler, Daniel Slifkin and Vanessa Lavely.
By Ross Todd | January 20, 2022
Law firm culture can be hard to define. But at least Cooley can say a single associate is more valuable in its culture than all the business Elon Musk's companies sent the firm's way.
By Ross Todd | July 21, 2021
"Yes, I may be general counsel now and may have lots of other responsibilities, but I speak litigation. And I have lawyers who speak privacy, and I have lawyers who speak antitrust," Kelly says.
By Ross Todd | June 30, 2021
"I think practitioners will become more sophisticated in the way that they use what happened in one jurisdiction to give them more traction in another jurisdiction when there is an advantage," says Deborah Hensler of Stanford Law School who co-authored a new report about the VW litigation and the prospect of future cases like it.
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