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MGA swaps counsel for Orrick

By Richard Binder

The manufacturer of Bratz dolls has replaced its lawyers for the second time this year in preparation for the next phase of its long-running copyright battle with Mattel Inc.

In a July 7 order, Larson approved MGA's request to replace its current attorneys ? Patricia Glaser, of Los Angeles-based Glaser, Weil, Fink, Jacobs, Howard & Shapiro, and Russell J. Frackman, a partner at Los Angeles-based Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp ? with a team of attorneys from Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe led by Annette L. Hurst in San Francisco. Three other Orrick attorneys ? Melinda Haag, Warrington S. Parker III and William A. Molinski ? are joining MGA's legal team, as well.

The counsel swap is the second so far this year for MGA, which in January replaced Thomas Nolan, a partner in the Los Angeles office of New York's Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, with Glaser and Frackman. Nolan, co-chairman of Skadden's West Coast litigation practice, handled the jury trial last year.

Full story at NLJ.com.

Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on July 08, 2009 (boomark / email).