Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout-Outs
Accolades | September 19, 2025
The AmLaw Litigation Daily
Reed Brodsky of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and Bill Burck and Avi Perry of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan represented the co-CEOs of technology company Next Jump Inc. in a criminal trial where they were accused of bribing the co-defendant, four-star Navy Admiral Robert Burke, with the promise of a $500,000 job in exchange for a government contract. After U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden in Washington, D.C., granted a defense motion to sever Burke’s trial from the government’s case against the executives last year, jurors found Burke guilty in May. But last week, with a Quinn Emanuel team representing Next Jump’s Charlie Kim and a Gibson Dunn team representing his co-CEO Meghan Messenger, jurors deadlocked after more than a week of deliberations, and the judge declared a mistrial. The Gibson Dunn team included of counsel Sam Raymond and associates Simone Rivera and Francesca Broggini. The Quinn team included of counsel Fritz Scanlon and Christopher Clore, and associates Rachel Frank and Brett Raffish.
Gibson Dunn partner Elizabeth Papez and of counsel Melanie Katsur teamed with Kressin Powers counsel Zach Martin to help hospital bed maker Hill-Rom knock out claims that the company engaged in anticompetitive practices in the markets for standard, intensive care unit and birthing beds. U.S. District Judge John Gallagher in Allentown, Pennsylvania, last week dismissed the suit with prejudice, holding that the plaintiff, Reading Hospital, failed to plead a plausible antitrust claim or provide any specific detail about Hill-Rom’s corporate enterprise agreements with health systems. The Gibson Dunn team included Caeli Higney, Julian Kleinbrodt, Kristen Limarzi, Amanda Sterling, Connie Lee and Aaron Cheung. The Kressin Powers included Brandon Kressin and Richard Powers.
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