Recent victories. Significant cases.

The Focal Point worked with Ted Olsen of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, David Boies of Boies, Schiller & Flexner, and Therese Stewart of the San Francisco City Attorney’s Office on this landmark case to challenge the constitutional validity of California’s Proposition 8 which bars the state from recognizing same-sex marriages.

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.

The Association of Business Trial Lawyers (ABTL) revised literary history and enjoyed some holiday cheer by putting Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, on trial for Murder in the First Degree. Allen Ruby, Esq. battled for the defense, while Cristina Arguedas, Esq. successfully orated for the Prosecution. This was part of the ABTL’s December program, which traditionally finds a humorous way to end the year.

The Focal Point provided Mental Mining®, strategy, and graphics for the Defense lawyers and numerous Defense experts in this nationally covered criminal case.

A San Francisco jury returned a Defense verdict in 25 minutes in this breach of contract insurance case.

Described by Fortune magazine as "the biggest patent case ever," Microsoft paid $440 million to The Focal Point's client.

Jeffrey Chanin, the lead attorney at Keker & Van Nest LLP representing TSMC, said the case amounted to "the biggest case of wholesale corporate espionage" he had ever encountered. A key challenge for the trial team was helping jurors understand and appreciate the extremely complex and detailed manufacturing processes and recipes of the technology at issue.

The Focal Point worked with the Prosecution on trial strategy in this highly publicized first-degree murder case.

An arbitration panel in Dallas dismisses plaintiff's allegations regarding the acquisition of four diagnostic imaging centers.

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.

Kent H. Roberts, former General Counsel for McAfee, was accused by the United States Department of Justice of two counts of fraud and one count of falsifying books and accounts associated with a specific stock option grant made in 2000. The facts of the case showed that all proper company procedures were followed and that all actions on the part of Mr. Roberts were in line with company policy and the law.

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.

A Detroit jury found Ranko “Ron” Cucuz and William Shovers (former CEO and CFO, respectively, of Hayes Lemmerz, the world’s largest producer of steel and aluminum wheels) liable for securities fraud for falsifying accounts and failing to report approximately $18 million in expenses to inflate earnings.

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.

A jury in the Northern District of Texas finds that Glycobiotics willfully infringed a patent owned by Mannatech.

The Focal Point worked with counsel to clarify case themes and theories and to create a cohesive, easily understood storyline that resulted in an award of $838 million in damages to German truck manufacturer, MAN AG.