I totally understand your attention has been somewhere besides litigation headlines this past week. But since it’s kind of my job to keep an eye on those headlines, I have to tell you it’s been one heck of a week in litigation land. Just look at these runners-up.
First up, there’s Moe Fodeman and Michael Sommer, the Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati duo I wrote about yesterday. The pair of former prosecutors secured $136 million dollars in restitution for their clients, former shareholders of a Canadian mining company, who lost their valuable stake in mining rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as a result of bribes paid to judges there. Fodeman and Sommer harnessed the Mandatory Victim Restitution Act to get their clients paid despite the initial opposition of the DOJ and the defendant, hedge fund manager Och-Ziff Capital Management Group. Bravo.
