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Perspective

Sep. 13, 2016

Litigating against deep pockets

The modern era's availability of low-cost, high-quality technology can help attorneys level the playing field when pitted against better-resourced adversaries. By Jose Raul Alcantar and Charles H. Jung

Jose Raul Alcantar

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By Jose Raul Alcantar and Charles H. Jung

In March 2015, Kleiner Perkins sought costs of nearly $1 million in the Ellen Pao v. Kleiner Perkins sex discrimination case after Pao lost. In December 2015, Apple's award of $1.8 million in costs incurred in suing Samsung for patent infringement was held enforceable. Prevailing parties in other high-stakes cases routinely seek trial costs in the hundreds of thousands of dollars or even in exce...

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