Gibson Dunn Earns Back-to-Back Accolades from LOTW

Accolades  |  June 27, 2025

The AmLaw Litigation Daily

For the second time in two weeks, Litigation Daily has recognized two Gibson Dunn teams in its Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout Outs column:

A patent litigation team at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher led by partners Daniel Thomasch, Kieran Kieckhefer and Jason Lo helped client Western Digital whittle down a patent award of more than $550 million to nominal damages of $1. U.S. District Senior Judge James Selna in Santa Ana, California, had earlier excluded the damages expert put forward by the plaintiff Spex Technologies. In a ruling on post-trial motions made public this week, Selna found that the evidence at trial did not support the jury’s damages verdict. The Gibson Dunn team included partner Stuart Rosenberg, of counsel Frank Coté, counsel Ahmed ElDessouki and associates Darish Huynh, Isaac Rottman, Lillian Mao, Yan Zhao and Eleni Ingram.

Shout-out to a separate Gibson Dunn team led by Theane Evangelis and Marcellus McRae, who helped the city of Los Angeles fend off a request for a receivership over the city’s homelessness response system. The Gibson Dunn team signed onto the case less than a week before a major evidentiary hearing in May. “Although democracies can be inefficient and even wasteful, only the voters of Los Angeles have the power to elect representatives to solve these problems,” wrote U.S. District Judge David Carter in denying the receivership this week. The judge, however, did institute a monitor to oversee the city’s compliance with its settlement agreement with the LA Alliance for Human Rights and mandated quarterly, in-court hearings to ensure the city is meeting its commitments. The Gibson Dunn team also included Bradley Hamburger, Angelique Kaounis and Kahn Scolnick.

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