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  • Justice Yates Vacates Conviction of Marsh McLennan Executives
    Judge Yates ruled yesterday to overturn the convictions of the two Marsh McLennan executives (Gilman and McNenney) who were tried in 2007 because the prosecutors had failed to turn over evidence that would have likely led to a not guilty verdict. This evidence included 700,000 pages of documents produced during the second trial of Marsh executives who were tried a year later. Aside from supporting all of the defendants during discovery and during two marathon trials, DOAR was instrumental in auditing the government's productions and reporting on the Liberty Mutual documents that proved to be exculpatory to the defendants. Our clients at Proskauer and at Cooley Godward represented the two executives who were affected by yesterday's ruling.

  • DOAR Provides Trial Consulting Services in Victory for 5,600 Women in Gender Discrimination Class Action Trial Against Pharmaceutical Giant
    DOAR Litigation Consulting LLC supported the Plaintiffs’ and their team in obtaining a landmark verdict for the class of 5,600 current and former female employees of Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation before Judge Colleen McMahon in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. The law firm representing the class was Sanford Wittels & Heisler LLP.
    Read the detailed press release here

  • Three former Marsh executives found not guilty. DOAR supports the legal defense teams throughout People v. Doherty et al.
    DOAR Litigation Consulting LLC has supported the legal defense teams which obtained the acquittal of three former Marsh McLennan executives during their 11-month trial before Judge James Yates in the New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan. The law firms representing the 3 defendants were Blank Rome LLP, Hinshaw & Culberson, and Driscoll & Redlich. On October 26, 2009, following an eleven month trial, New York State Supreme Court Judge James Yates acquitted three former Marsh executives of felony charges stemming from alleged bid-rigging, price-fixing, and collusion activities. Defendants Greg Doherty, Kathleen Drake & Joseph Peiser were indicted in 2005. They were among eight former Marsh executives charged with colluding with brokers at insurance carriers such as American International Group (AIG), Zurich, and others to obtain intentionally, non-competitive or fake quotes for other corporate clients to suppress competition.

  • EDNY Judge rules in favor of CARCO Group and Farrell Fritz Partner James Wicks in employment contract trial.
    In an April 21, 2009 decision EDNY Magistrate Judge Lindsay ruled that Drew Maconachy violated the terms of his employment contract with CARCO and ordered him to pay $1,791,356 plus all attorneys' fees and interest. The decision came after a 2-week bench trial in July 2008. DOAR Litigation Consulting provided James Wicks and Farrell Fritz with a full range of Trial Consulting Services including visual strategy consultation, witness preparation, graphics, trial presentation and technology.

  • DOAR assists Farrell Fritz P.C. in achieving defense verdict in class action employment jury trial
    On April 03, 2009 following 1 week of trial in front of Judge Baer a SDNY jury returned a defense verdict after 3.5 hours of deliberation. In a text book example of DOAR’s Discovery to Decision model, Farrell Fritz, Partner Domenique Camacho-Moran utilized many of the weapons in the DOAR arsenal including discovery consulting, forensic data acquisition, focus group and mock trial research, witness preparation, expert testimony, the development of analytical graphics, trial presentation and courtroom technology. DOAR was able to help its client develop, communicate and execute an effective trial strategy and gain a complete defense victory in Mendoza, et al. v. Delgado Travel Agency, Inc., et al.

  • DOAR Supports Epstein, Becker & Green in obtaining unanimous jury verdict in the Denise Romano v. New York Presbyterian Hospital trial.
    This whistleblower case claimed that Epstein, Becker & Green’s client, New York Presbyterian Hospital, was involved in a conspiracy that led to the false billing of Medicaid for approximately 1,800 births between 1996 and 2000. After three weeks of trial in SDNY the jury returned with a unanimous defense verdict in favor of our client on all three claims in question. DOAR provided trial consulting services including analytical graphics design and creation, trial presentation consulting and technology.

  • DOAR Supports WLRK in Rohm & Haas/Dow Chemical Merger
    DOAR’s Trial Consulting practice group worked hand-in-hand this weekend with Rohm & Haas lead counsel Marc Wolinsky and Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz to prepare for their trial in Delaware Chancery Court involving Rohm’s merger with Dow Chemical. One of the more closely watched M&A cases in the past few years, this dispute arose from Dow’s pulling out of the agreed-to merger due to their decline in assets in the recent economic downturn. In preparation for trial, DOAR’s team worked round the clock with many Wachtell lawyers creating document displays, video testimony for impeachment, and persuasive graphic demonstratives. Just moments before the trial was set to begin yesterday, the two companies agreed to go through with $15 billion the merger as planned. Wachtell is considering the outcome as a great victory, as does DOAR.

  • DOAR supports Spears & Imes and Anthony Ostlund Baer Louwagie & Ross in $141 million victory against Banc of America.
    On Thursday, Dec. 4th, a federal jury in the Southern District of New York found unanimously that Banc of America committed fraud and awarded damages in the amount of $141 million to eight investment banks including AIG Global Securities, AIG Life, Allstate, International Finance Corporation (IFC), Société Générale, Travelers, Bank Leumi USA, and Bayerische Landesbank. The fraud involved providing false loss numbers about an investment trust offered by furniture retailer Heilig-Meyers to the banks, while at the same time keeping a second set of figures internally that showed the actual picture of the trust's worse condition. DOAR provided consulting services for the 6-week long trial, including the development of graphic demonstratives, in-court presentation of key documents, video depositions and graphics, as well as expert testimony related to discovery issues and war room support.

  • DOAR assists Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman and Southern Union Company in gaining acquittal by jury on two of three charges brought by the US government
    On October 15th, 2008, a federal jury in the District of Rhode Island returned a partial verdict in favor of Southern Union Company. DOAR provided trial consulting services including graphics consultation and design, trial presentation and courtroom and war room technology in support of the twelve-day proceeding before Judge William E. Smith. Kasowitz Benson and Southern Union were both pleased with the outcome. After the verdict, attorney Dan Fetterman of Kasowitz commented on DOAR’s performance. ”I’ll never go to trial with any other team.”