Kalpana Srinivasan scored one of the biggest (if not the biggest) jury verdicts of the year in a trade secrets, fraud and breach-of-contract suit—a $706.2 million win for her real estate valuation client HouseCanary. A San Antonio jury decided a Quicken Loans affiliate used a license as a pretense to reverse-engineer its own competing valuation model.

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