Partners Brian Klein and Teresa Huggins won a significant victory for client Bitfloor, Inc. when a New York state court judge granted partial summary judgment to onetime Bitfloor customers but also granted Bitfloor’s cross-motion and held that the damages awarded would be limited to the dollar value of the digital assets over a decade ago and found many of the plaintiffs were barred by statutes of limitations. The Law360 headline read “Crypto Exchange Must Refund Bitcoins, but in 2013 Dollars.”
In a dispute over the alleged theft and laundering of bitcoin allegedly worth more than $80 million, Brian Klein, Scott Malzahn and Jose Nuño led the Waymaker team who won dismissal of a lawsuit brought against the Kraken cryptocurrency exchange for lack of personal jurisdiction in Florida …
The Waymaker team, Teresa Huggins and Counsel Kevin Casey, prevailed for client 6759 Hollywood, LLC when The Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District, affirmed the trial court’s decision to grant summary judgment in favor of Waymaker client. The case involved an action for breach of contract involving a commercial lease …
Partner Brian Klein, speaking to American Banker about TD Bank pleading guilty to money-laundering conspiracy and settling for $3.09 billion but avoiding criminal charges against individual executives, said “the sheer scale of a large institution often shields the individuals within it.”
Former federal prosecutor Brian Klein, interviewed about the forthcoming federal corruption case against former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan on the Bloomberg Law Podcast, said of the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent Snyder v. United States ruling, “It’s always helpful as a defense lawyer if you have Supreme Court precedent supporting you …”
Partner Ryan Baker, speaking to Law360 about the ethical rules applying litigators doing research with AI, said, using “it doesn’t alter the duties of the lawyer to ultimately verify what is said is accurate and true and applicable to the case …”
A Houston urologist who lost a trade secrets case brought by Beverly Hills urologist James Elist is seeking a new trial, but Waymaker Lead Counsel Ryan Baker says, “Defendants’ new argument regarding claims construction is yet another attempt to convert plaintiff’s Trade secrets claims into claims for patent infringement …”
Daily Journal named Co-Founding Partner Ryan Baker as one of California’s Top Trade Secrets Lawyers 2024 in its October 9, 2024 edition. “This case is important because it protects innovation and innovators,” said Baker speaking of his recent victory …
Partners Ryan Baker, Brian Klein, Jaime Marquart, and Donald Pepperman have been recognized as Litigation Stars in the Benchmark Litigation 2025 US Rankings.
Many of these results were obtained by the predecessor firm to Waymaker, Baker Marquart LLP.
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