Christopher Robert Hagale

Practice Details

• Firm Information
  Position

  Partner

  Firm Name

  Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott LLP
• Representative Cases & Transactions
  Cases

  Representative Cases: Microsoft/Yahoo! Contractual Counseling (2012-2015) Advised Microsoft relating to its Search Alliance with Yahoo!. The parties successfully restructured the Alliance at its five-year anniversary.Vioxx Consumer Class Action Litigation (Circuit Court, Jackson County, Missouri)
  Represented Merck in Plubell class action, brought on behalf of Missouri consumers alleging economic losses relating to purchase of Vioxx . Microsoft v. Yahoo! (Arbitration, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York)
  Prevailed in an emergency arbitration seeking a preliminary injunction ordering Yahoo! to transition to Microsoft's Bing Ads in Taiwan
  Hong Kong. Defeated Yahoo!'s petition to vacate Award in federal court. Merry Gentleman, LLC v. George
  Leona Productions, Inc.,
  Michael Keaton (U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois)
  Represent Michael Keaton
  George
  Leona Productions, Inc. in dispute concerning services performed in connection with the motion picture The Merry Gentleman. Deutsche Bank AG v. Deloitte & Touche LLP
  Neil F. Luria v. Deloitte & Touche LLP
  Ocala Funding, LLC v. Deloitte & Touche LLP (Circuit Court, Miami-Dade County, Florida)
  Represented Deloitte & Touche LLP in disputes with various parties in connection with audit of mortgage-origination company. Convolve, et al. v. Compaq
  Seagate
  Represent Compaq (now Hewlett-Packard) in patent
  trade secret dispute with Convolve relating to disk drive technology in which Convolve sought hundreds of millions of dollars in damages. Flores v. A Taste of Heaven
  Represented plaintiff in pro bono employment discrimination case. Peugh v. United States
  Drafted an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of the Illinois Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers regarding whether the Federal Sentencing Guidelines are subject to the ex post facto clause of the Constitution.