To defend a giant Internet corporation like Yahoo! Inc., attorneys from McDermott Will & Emery emphasized strenuous preparation and the case’s human dimension. Facing litigators from the well-respected Dallas firm McKool Smith, intellectual property attorneys Yar Chaikovsky and Fay Morisseau wrote their opening statement five months in advance and spent three months on intensive trial preparations, including mock witness examinations.
They prepared the founder of Yahoo to present himself on the stand not as some corporate suit but rather a computer science major who dropped out of Stanford University to launch a company he was still passionate about.
