Litigation

Although we pride ourselves on giving our clients sound judgment that will allow them to achieve their objectives without incurring liability, we understand that in some instances litigation is inevitable.  We handle a variety of litigation for clients.   For example, our attorneys secured the first ever guilty jury verdict in an Economic Espionage Act case involving theft of trade secrets by a foreign entity and won a precedent setting victory on a novel DMCA claim involving the circumvention of a client's in-game cheat detection software.  We have successfully defended actions alleging Electronic Communications Privacy Act violations, challenging alleged mobile phone spam, unfair bid-rigging in the sale of sponsored online advertising, and a variety of other unfair practices claims.  We have also filed and successfully taken to judgment scores of copyright, DMCA, trademark and Computer Fraud and Abuse Act claims and secured preliminary injunctive relief, executed civil seizure orders, and other special relief.

Our litigation philosophy is to work with our clients early to set a clear objective, and then build our strategy with a singular focus on achieving that objective as efficiently as possible.  We try to avoid merely going through "the motions" and the rote checklist of litigation tasks.  Instead, we firmly believe that every action taken in the course of litigation should have a clearly identifiable purpose that serves the client's ultimate objective.  Although our firm's sole office at present is in Washington, DC, we routinely litigate across the country using a network of established local counsel who, like us, offer our clients great value.   In the last year, our attorneys have handled cases in state superior and federal district court in California, New York, Illinois, DC, Wisconsin, Maryland, Missouri, Arizona, Connecticut, and Georgia. We have also served as lead counsel in federal appeals in the Third, Fifth, Seventh, Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Circuits.