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February 07, 2005 |

Prepaid Cell Phone Lawsuit Generating Fat Legal Fees

Systems for providing cell phone users with prepaid service have become the subject of a big-bucks legal dispute. Douglas Fougnies and Dan Harned have sued Boston Communications Group Inc. and other carriers for as much as $1 billion for allegedly infringing their patents on such a system and shutting their company, Freedom Wireless Inc., out of the market. BCG says it's already incurred more than $15 million in legal fees.
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Chess Masters: O'Melveny & Myers
Publication Date: 2010-01-01
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Walter Dellinger, chair of the appellate practice at O?Melveny & Myers, spoke with us about two of his firm's biggest Supreme Court cases.

June 30, 1999 |

Silicon Valley Pioneer Folds Office

Brown & Bain, once one of the Silicon Valley's leading intellectual property litigation firms, is closing its Palo Alto office at the end of July. The decision, which comes after years of setbacks for the office, ends a 20-year run in the Valley for a firm that waged landmark IP wars on behalf of Apple Computer Inc. and Intel Corp.
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Chevron v. Donziger: The Money Man
Publication Date: 2013-10-17
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Day Two of trial in Chevron's fraud and RICO case against Steven Donziger and his Ecuadorian allies centered on the testimony of Christopher Bogart, founder and CEO of the prominent U.S.-based litigation financier Burford Capital.

In Subpoena Spat with Deloitte, No Easy Day for SEC Lawyers
Publication Date: 2013-03-14
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Deloitte's lawyers at Latham & Watkins and Sidley Austin faced off with their SEC counterparts for three hours on Wednesday in their battle over audit papers for a Chinese company.

December 01, 2009 |

Law Firm Leaders Survey 2009

Law firm leaders detail the short-term measures they've taken to cut costs.
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The Global Lawyer: Chevron's Ecuador Case Veers Off Script at Second Circuit Hearing
Publication Date: 2011-09-18
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John Keker, who represents plaintiffs' lawyer Steven Donziger, warned that Manhattan federal judge Lewis Kaplan is marching toward a "show trial" on the issue of "whether Ecuador stinks," with the Ecuadorian plaintiffs "tethered to a stick like a goat." Luckily for the goat, it may at last have found a receptive audience in New York.

February 04, 2005 |

Prepaid Cell Phone Lawsuit Generating Fat Legal Fees

When cell phones first appeared, many people were left out of the new craze because they couldn't pass a credit check. A pair of Arizona entrepreneurs claim they came up with the solution -- pre-paid accounts. But Douglas Fougnies and Dan Harned charge that another company, Boston Communications Group Inc., began infringing their patents, shutting them out of the market. The dispute could be costly for the cell phone industry. Fougnies and Harned have sued BCG and several carriers for as much as $1 billion.
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Raging Battle Over Copyright
Publication Date: 2013-09-16
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Frank "Peter" Petrella helped world middleweight champion Jake LaMotta teach actor Robert De Niro how to box for the Academy Award-winning film Raging Bull. Now Petrella's daughter is taking those fight lessons into a different arena — the U.S. Supreme Court.

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