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| Yarmuth Wilsdon Calfo represents clients - large and small - in a wide variety of litigation and business matters, including antitrust cases, securities litigation, employment litigation, real estate transactions, fraud claims, equine law matters, environmental litigation, misappropriation of trade secrets, unfair business practices, shareholder and partnership disputes, and contract actions. |
Representative clients and matters include:
- IDX Systems Corporation — The firm successfully represented IDX in federal court litigation brought by a former employee involved in a federal research project who claimed that IDX had fraudulently billed the government. The employee’s claims were recently dismissed.
- Deloitte & Touche LLP — The firm has represented Deloitte in several matters. It currently is defending the Company in securities litigation involving audit and consulting work performed on behalf of Deloitte client InfoSpace.
- British Petroleum (BP) Pipelines N.A. — The firm has represented a BP subsidiary since July 2000 in major criminal and civil environmental government enforcement actions, and in related wrongful death and commercial litigation. The firm has also provided ongoing advice on government enforcement issues to BP Pipelines and BP Energy Canada.
- The Boeing Company — The firm has handled several enforcement-related matters for Boeing over the past two years, including one having to do with export controls.
- Cutter & Buck — The firm advised this publicly-traded clothing company in connection with an SEC investigation into improper revenue recognition, or earnings management, and a related criminal investigation.
- Motion Picture Association of America — The firm’s lawyers have represented the MPAA’s members (Warner Bros., Paramount, MGM, Universal, Sony, Disney and Fox) since 1973 in litigation throughout the western United States. The firm was selected by Warner Bros. in 1999 to respond to a CID issued by the Department of Justice involving industry practices nationwide.
- Recording Industry Association of America — Since 2003, the firm has played a major role in assisting the RIAA in anti-piracy efforts directed at illegal file sharing.
- Weyerhaeuser Real Estate Company — Arbitration and litigation regarding major master planned real estate and PGA golf course development.
- Wells Fargo Bank — Various contract actions.
- Accessor Capital Corporation — Accessor Capital is a multi-billion dollar mutual fund. The firm has provided legal advice to the Company since 1992 and recently successfully concluded shareholder litigation on behalf of the Company.
- Pegram Enterprises — Pegram Enterprises consists of restaurants, real estate and thoroughbred horse racing and breeding facilities, and numerous investment companies. The firm has represented Pegram since 1995, including handling lawsuits in Arizona, California, Washington and Kentucky (involving the breeding rights to Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner, Real Quiet).
- Premera Blue Cross — The firm has represented Premera Blue Cross, the largest health insurer in Washington State, for the past nearly three years, and has defended Premera in connection with the government’s investigation of allegations in a qui tam lawsuit arising out of the company’s duties as the regional fiscal intermediary for the Medicare program. The firm also represents Premera in connection with the wrongful termination lawsuit brought by the former company employee whose allegations prompted the investigation.
- Wedbush Morgan Securities — The firm represents Wedbush in a state court class action securities case arising out of a fraudulent $20 million bond offering; and the firm is involved in several other securities cases.
- Lindows — Earlier this year the firm successfully concluded its representation of Lindows.com in defending against a major lawsuit filed by Microsoft regarding an alleged infringement of the “Windows” trademark. The lawsuit created new law in the area of trademark.
- DIRECTV — Beginning in 1995, the firm has acted as national counsel for satellite broadcaster DIRECTV in developing and implementing legal strategies to combat signal theft. The firm is credited with pioneering novel uses of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and other federal statutes to obtain civil writs of seizure and other relief.
- News Corp. — Since 1996, the firm has represented News Corp. in a series of anti-piracy and related litigation matters. In addition to its on-going anti-piracy work, the firm currently represents News Corp. and its subsidiary in two major trade secrets cases pending in Orange Country, California. The lawsuits were brought by US and foreign broadcast companies and stem from the alleged unauthorized dissemination of protected encryption technologies.
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| The firm is dedicated to the efficient, economical and timely resolution of disputes — but has the experience and capability to go to trial on behalf of its clients if that is what is required to obtain the best possible result. |
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