Mr. Lawrence is a partner in the Litigation Department of Morrison & Foerster’s New York office. His practice involves all aspects of complex commercial litigation in federal and state trial and appellate courts and in arbitration.

Mr. Lawrence has an active practice representing and counseling clients in intellectual property cases involving copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret, and unfair competition claims. He has also represented individual and corporate defendants in criminal investigations, SEC, False Claims Act, and other regulatory proceedings and has experience conducting corporate internal investigations. Mr. Lawrence has further represented clients in various types of commercial litigation.

Mr. Lawrence joined Morrison & Foerster in the San Francisco office in 2000 and relocated to the New York office in 2001. Prior to joining Morrison & Foerster, he was an associate in the employment law department of Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker LLP in Atlanta, Georgia.

Mr. Lawrence received his B.A. degree, cum laude, from Georgetown University in 1992, and his J.D. degree in 1996 from Vanderbilt University, where he was a member of the Order of the Coif.

Mr. Lawrence is admitted to the New York, California, District of Columbia, and Georgia bars.

Intellectual Property Matters

• Colorado Legal Services v. Legal Aid National Services, d/b/a The LANS Corp, 08-CV-00258 (REB)(KMT) (D. Colo. 2008). Represented Legal Aid Organization in an action asserting Lanham Act and RICO claims against individuals and entities that masqueraded as legal aid providers and defrauded consumers.
• Int’l Consulting Servs., Ltd. v. Cheap Tickets, Inc., 01-CV-4768, 2007 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 71689 (E.D.N.Y. 2007). Represented Cheap Tickets, Inc. in a trademark infringement and anti-cybersquatting action against an operator of an infringing travel website, obtaining summary judgment for Cheap Tickets, which resulted in a $1.45 million judgment for the client.
• Choice, Inc. of TX d/b/a Causeway Med. Clinic v. Graham, 226 F.R.D. 545 (E.D. La. 2006). Represented a reproductive health services clinic and its patients in a class action asserting Lanham Act and fraud claims against an

individual who masqueraded as the clinic and interfered with the patients’ access to reproductive health services, obtaining an injunction against the individual and relief for the class.

• Washington Univ. v. Catalona, 437 F. Supp. 2d 985 (E.D. Mo. 2006). Represented Washington a dispute with a former professor over the ownership of a biological repository, resulting in a finding that Washington University owned the biorepository.
• Register.com, Inc. v. Verio, Inc., 356 F.3d 393 (2d Cir. 2004). Represented Verio in a dispute with a leading domain name registrar over the use of Whois data for marketing purposes.
• Zimmer, Inc. v. BTG Int’l Ltd. and Johnson & Johnson, 783 N.E. 2d 1287 (Ind. 2003). Represented British Technology Group in a license dispute involving BTG’s and Johnson & Johnson’s patents for hip replacement parts and succeeded in having the Indiana Court of Appeals overturn an adverse summary judgment decision interpreting the licenses at issue.
• Strike Holdings LLC v. Lucky Strike Hollywood, Inc., 05-CV-381 (S.D.N.Y.). Represented Lucky Strike Hollywood in an unfair competition, trademark infringement, and misappropriation of trade secrets action filed against it by a claimed competitor.
• Colorado Legal Services v. Legal Aid National Services, d/b/a The LANS Corp, 08-CV-00258 (REB)(KMT) (D. Colo. 2008). Represented Legal Aid Organization in an action asserting Lanham Act and RICO claims against individuals and entities that masqueraded as legal aid providers and defrauded consumers.
• Komag, Inc. v. Asahi Glass Co., Ltd., C-00-20595-PVT (N.D. Cal.). Represented Asahi Glass in an action brought by a former partner in a joint venture for the manufacture of disc drives regarding claims to rights in certain patents, obtaining dismissal of the claims by the former partner.
• Manchak v. S.M.W. Seiko, Inc., CV-00-2894-SBA (N.D. Cal.). Represented S.M.W. Seiko in an action filed against it claiming infringement of soil contaminant testing patent alleged to be infringed in a soil-cement mixing process used in Boston’s “Big Dig.”

Regulatory and Securities Matters

• Yale University Grant Investigation. Represented Yale University in a federal investigation of its accounting and management of research grants and contracts.
• Biovail Corp. v. S.A.C. Capital Mgmt., LLC, ESX-L-1583-06 (N.J. Super.); Del Giudice v. S.A.C. Capital Mgmt., LLC, 2:06-cv-01413 (D.N.J.); and In re Biovail Corp. Sec. Litig., 03 Civ. 8917, 2007 WL 259933 (S.D.N.Y. 2007). Represented a former analyst at Banc of America Securities in a $4.6 billion RICO action, resulting in a complete dismissal with prejudice of all claims against the client.
• United States ex rel. Smith v. Yale New Haven Hosp., 415 F. Supp. 2d 58 (D. Conn. 2006). Represented Yale University in a qui tam action brought under the False Claims Act, which resulted in complete dismissal of the relator’s claims.
• United States v. Quattrone, 03 Cr. 582, 2003 WL 22253325 (S.D.N.Y. 2003). Represented former investment banker with Credit Suisse First Boston in obstruction of justice claim, which resulted in dismissal of all claims against the client.
• Irvine v. ImClone Sys., Inc., 02 Civ. 7499, 2003 WL 21297285 (S.D.N.Y. 2003). Represented former CEO of ImClone Systems, Inc. in a federal securities class action and related derivative actions.

Commercial Litigation

• VOOM HD Holdings LLC v. EchoStar Satellite L.L.C., 600292/08 (N.Y. Sup.). Represented EchoStar in a dispute with Voom HD in an action alleging breach of an affiliation agreement to distribute Voom HD channels on EchoStar’s DISH Network.
• NFL Enterprises LLC v. EchoStar Satellite L.L.C., 600556/08 (N.Y. Sup.). Represented EchoStar in a dispute with NFL Enterprises in an action alleging breach of an affiliation agreement to distribute NFL Network on EchoStar’s DISH Network.
• Office of the Commissioner of Baseball v. EchoStar Satellite L.L.C., 600826/08 (N.Y. Sup.). Represented EchoStar in a dispute with the Office of the Commissioner of Baseball in an action alleging breach of a agreements to distribute Major League Baseball’s Extra Innings Jones Apparel Group, Inc. v. Polo Ralph Lauren Corp., 3 Misc. 3d 1107(A), 2004 WL 1218806 (N.Y. Sup. 2004). Represented a former executive at Jones Apparel Group who left the company and later joined Polo Ralph Lauren, in an action alleging breach of her employment agreement and misappropriation of trade secrets.
• Asante Techs. Inc. v. PMC-Sierra, Inc., 164 F. Supp. 2d 1142 (N.D. Cal. 2001). Represented PMC-Sierra in a breach of contract claim brought against it by a manufacturer of modems that incorporated PMC-Sierra computer chips obtaining dismissal of the action.
• ECO Coal Pelletiztion No. 1., LLC v. Solid Energy LLC, 601726/05 (N.Y. Sup.). Represented sellers of synthetic fuel facilities against the purchasers of those facilities in an action for breach of the purchase agreements.
• In re National Audit Defense Network, 04-1252 (Bankr. D. Nev.). Represented KeyBank National Association in an adversary proceeding brought to recover funds held by KeyBank to cover credit card chargebacks.
• Renna v. Douglas Elliman, LLC, 601914/03 (N.Y. Sup.). Represented Douglas Elliman, a real estate brokerage company, in a case brought by a former manager seeking to recover a year-end bonus to which the manager claimed to be entitled.
• Vulcan AMPS, LLC v. JMD Energy Systems, Inc., 03 Civ. 10120 (S.D.N.Y.). Represented Vulcan in an action against JMD over JMD’s failure to deliver mobile power generators.
• Ocean Prime LLC v. Insignia Residential Group, Inc., 603240/02 (N.Y. Sup.). Represented property management company in a dispute with the owner of a residential building in lower Manhattan.
• Key3Media Events, Inc. v. Plexusnet Broad. Corp., C-01-0461-PJH (N.D. Cal.). Represented Key3Media, a trade show production company, in dispute with software developer obtaining preliminary injunction requiring the developer to provide access to software.
• Poulos v. Verio, Inc., 01 CH 6839 (Ill. Cir. Ct.). Represented Verio in a consumer class action filed under the Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Practices Act arising out of the shutdown of NorthPoint Communications, through which Verio provided DSL services to its customers.