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Speaker 1: This is Bloomberg Law with June Grassoe from Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: In the movie My Cousin Vinny, an incredulous judge questions

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Speaker 1: a lawyer who's wearing a leather jacket and no tie

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Speaker 1: in his courtroom. When you come into my court looking

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Speaker 1: like you do, you not only insult me, but you

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Speaker 1: insult the integrity of this court. I apologize, said, but

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Speaker 1: this is high dress. Next time you come into my courtroom,

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Speaker 1: you will look loyally and I mean you call me

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Speaker 1: head and wear a suit and tie, and that suit

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Speaker 1: that will be made out of some kind of cloth.

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Speaker 1: You understand me. Well, this month, a federal judge in

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Speaker 1: New York wanted to make sure that lawyers were properly

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Speaker 1: dressed for court and issued a similar instruction in a

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Speaker 1: written order. Judge Robert Draine had decided to go where

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Speaker 1: no other judge has gone before and conduct an entire

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Speaker 1: trial by video. It took place in US Bankruptcy Court

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Speaker 1: in the Southern District of New York. Well, that's where

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Speaker 1: the judge's courtroom is, but the lawyers and witnesses were elsewhere.

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Speaker 1: Joining me. As intellectual property litigator Terence Ross, a partner

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Speaker 1: Captain Eugen Rosenman. He represented the plaintiff in this case

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Speaker 1: between two competing cable companies. So, Terry, what was an

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Speaker 1: intellectual property lawyer doing in bankruptcy court? Well, Jim, the

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Speaker 1: bankruptcy court actually has jurisdiction over most controversies that arise

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Speaker 1: involving a company that's in reorganization, even if it's not

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Speaker 1: a traditional bankruptcy area of law. So in this particular case,

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Speaker 1: there was a charge of false advertising under the Land

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Speaker 1: Act made by my client was in Chapter eleven reorganization,

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Speaker 1: and that complaint was brought in the bankruptcy court as

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Speaker 1: what is known as an adversary proceeding, and once filed,

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Speaker 1: it proceeded in the bankruptcy court as if it were

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Speaker 1: any other false advertising case a federal district court. Was

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Speaker 1: there an urgency about this? Why did a bankruptcy court

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Speaker 1: decide to become a trailblazer? So one of the fundamental

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Speaker 1: principles in bankruptcy court is you want to move the

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Speaker 1: debt or through the process as quickly as possible and

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Speaker 1: get them back out the other side of bankruptcy and

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Speaker 1: operating as a regular company. This way, creditors get paid quickly,

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Speaker 1: employees are not put out of work and normal operations

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Speaker 1: of the company continue. And so in bankruptcy court there

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Speaker 1: and proceedings from start to finish. And so although there

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Speaker 1: was a slight delay here due to the COVID nineteen pandemic,

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Speaker 1: trial was postponed approximately thirty days. The bankruptcy court did

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Speaker 1: not want an extended postponement of the trial because of

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Speaker 1: this overarching principle that you see in bankruptcy proceedings. Let's

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Speaker 1: move these proceedings through the process as quickly as possible,

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Speaker 1: get the creditors paid, and get the company back out.

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Speaker 1: On the other side of bankruptcy, judges across the country

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Speaker 1: have been holding not trials, but conferences, motions and the

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Speaker 1: like by video, and there have been reports of everything

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Speaker 1: from barking dogs two lawyers appearing shirtless. Did Judge Drane

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Speaker 1: was probably one of the most useful things that happened

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Speaker 1: Was it done by zoom now? Unfortunately it was not.

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Speaker 1: The parties actually jointly suggested to the court that WebEx

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Speaker 1: Why it's hard to get that aha moment when cross

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Speaker 1: But again, this was a bench trial to judge, and

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Speaker 1: And so those are the challenges we face. But again,

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Speaker 1: plainests and commercial litigation. So, Terry, what advice would you

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Speaker 1: by video? So there are two must dues going into

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Speaker 1: So Terry, what was the verdict? So, as often happens

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Speaker 1: till Midsummer. Well, thanks so much for share in your

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Speaker 1: video trial experience with us. That's intellectual property litigator Terence Ross,

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