Willie Gary Gives Up Dream of $10B in Damages in Motorola Suit
Trial lawyer Willie Gary had sought $10 billion in a suit that claimed Motorola stole his client’s idea for a vehicle tracking system, but he has settled for considerably less.
Sources told the AmLaw Daily that Gary’s confidential settlement in the case for his client SPS Technologies was in the low tens of millions of dollars.
Gary’s dreams of big money also extended to a sanctions request against Motorola’s law firm, Shook, Hardy & Bacon. Gary had sought $11,000 an hour in attorney fees from the firm for violating a sequestration order by providing expert witness testimony to two witnesses. A judge agreed to the sanction but awarded Gary considerably lower fees of $1,000 an hour.
Motorola’s new lead lawyer is Faith Gay of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges, the story says. An earlier trial in the case ended with a hung jury, and a new trial had been set for July 28 in Broward County, Fla.
