You might think Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr partner William Lee would rate a day off after delivering the rebuttal closing argument on behalf of Apple Inc. in its massive patent infringement trial against Samsung Electronics Co. — and helping secure a billion-dollar jury verdict in the process. But no. Lee (who was asked earlier by U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh of the Northern District of California whether he was “smoking crack” when he submitted a 75-page list of witnesses), promptly hopped a red-eye from California to Washington. When he landed on August 22, he headed straight to the International Trade Commission to join the Wilmer team on the second day of a patent trial pitting clients Intel Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co. against tiny X2Y Attenuators LLC. “Coast to coast and back to back was a little challenging but both were great cases for great clients,” Lee said. — Jenna Greene

FEDS 2, TEXAS 0: DOJ WINS IN BIG VOTER CASES

In the span of two days, two separate three-judge panels in Washington messed with Texas — blocking the state’s ability to carry out its controversial voter-identification measure and ruling against a redistricting attempt. Texas lost twice in suits the state filed against the U.S. Justice Department, which argued that the redistricting and voter ID efforts would harm racial minorities and the poor.

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