Significant Cases Won. Important Challenges Met.

Banco Espirito Santo International v. BDO Seidman After working with lead attorney Steven Thomas of the Los Angeles office of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP for more than a year, The Focal Point played a major role in the verdict against accounting firm BDO Seidman in a gross negligence case brought by Portuguese bank Banco Espirito Santo. The jury awarded over $533 million to Banco Espirito--$170 million in compensation and $351.7 million in punitive damages.		California v. Knoller and Noel A jury found the defendants guilty on all five criminal charges resulting from a fatal attack by the defendants' dogs in San Francisco.

California v. Scott Peterson The Focal Point worked with the prosecution on trial strategy in this highly publicized first-degree murder case.		Chiron v. Genentech The jury unanimously agreed that counsel Keker & Van Nest had met the burden of "clear and convincing evidence" and found for Genentech on all counts.

Colorado v. Kobe Bean Bryant The Focal Point provided Mental Mining®, strategy, and graphics for the defense lawyers and numerous defense experts in this nationally covered criminal case.		InterTrust v. Microsoft Described by Fortune magazine as "the biggest patent case ever," Microsoft paid $440 million to The Focal Point's client.

Jane Doe, et al. v. Emmanuel Constant The Focal Point, as part of its ongoing pro bono commitment, collaborated on this case in which Judge Sydney H. Stein of the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of New York found in favor of Jane Does I, II, and III and ordered Emmanuel Constant to pay $19 million in compensatory and punitive damages. Ivor Samson of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal and Moira Feeney of The Center for Justice and Accountability both received the California Trial Lawyer of the Year award.		K.C. et al. v. Jack O’Connell et al. The Focal Point worked with Reed Smith and the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund to defend the right of children with diabetes to have access to medical treatment while at school. As a result of this important settlement, California schools will now be required to provide medical assistance during the school day to children with diabetes.

Microsoft v. Google In a battle between the two Internet search giants, Microsoft and Google, The Focal Point's clients, Google and its new hire, Dr. Kai-Fu Lee, reached a successful resolution just weeks before trial.		SEC v. Buntrock A Chicago jury found James Koenig, former CFO of Waste Management, Inc., liable for falsifying accounts while engaging in "massive financial fraud" totaling $1.7 billion between 1992 and 1997.

United States v. Oracle Corporation A U.S. District Court rejected the government's antitrust challenge to the tender offer by Oracle Corporation to acquire PeopleSoft, Inc.		Xilinx v. Altera Graphics and animations, teaching everything from patent law to digital logic concepts, to chip-making specifications, and to the actual claims at issue, were created for lawyers and experts.