Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout-Outs

Accolades  |  February 28, 2025

The AmLaw Litigation Daily

Shout-out to a Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher team led by Thomas Hungar, Helgi Walker and Jonathan Bond that won a unanimous decision at the U.S. Supreme Court for their client Dewberry Group tossing out a $43 million award in a long-running trademark dispute with competing real-estate development company Dewberry Engineers. The court rejected the lower courts’ treatment of Dewberry Group and its affiliates “as a single corporate entity” for purposes of calculating profits, and remanded the case for new award proceedings. “By treating those entities as one and the same, the courts below approved an award including non-defendants’ profits—and thus went further than the Lanham Act permits,” wrote Justice Elena Kagan.

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