McCarter and English LLP v. Jarrow Formulas, Inc

  1. February 09, 2024

    Conn. Justices Asked To Rule On McCarter Damages Dispute

    A Connecticut federal judge has granted McCarter & English LLP more than $680,000 in prejudgment interest after the firm's victory on claims a former client refused to pay legal fees in an underlying suit.

  2. December 21, 2023

    Top Connecticut Cases Of 2023

    Courts in Connecticut rebuffed some major government and financial institutions in 2023, ruling against federal prosecutors in a high-profile criminal antitrust case against an RTX Corp. unit and sending Deutsche Bank AG back to the drawing board to pursue an enormous, decade-old judgment.

  3. November 08, 2023

    McCarter & English Wants $6.8M, Skewers Ex-Client's Words

    In a filing seeking interest and punitive damages, McCarter & English LLP lambasted the "exceptional use of pejoratives" in former client Jarrow Formulas Inc.'s attempt to avoid high rate calculations in a $6.8 million fee dispute the firm decisively won after a jury trial.

  4. October 18, 2023

    McCarter & English Urges Judge To Reject Ex-Client's Retrial

    A California dietary supplement company should not receive a new trial following a million-dollar loss before a Connecticut federal jury on breach of contract claims brought by its former counsel, McCarter & English LLP, the firm told the court, arguing issues contained in the retrial bid were already heard.

  5. September 20, 2023

    Supplement Co. Wants McCarter & English Win Slashed

     A California dietary supplement company is renewing its bid to see a Connecticut federal judge supersede a jury's decision in a breach of contract suit filed against it by its onetime counsel, McCarter & English LLP, arguing the nearly $6.5 million in damages a jury awarded should be reduced to roughly $859,000.

  6. July 25, 2023

    Ex-Client Owes McCarter & English $1M For Bills, Jury Finds

    McCarter & English LLP won a clean sweep of a multipart verdict in Hartford federal court on Tuesday when a jury awarded the law firm more than $1 million in its suit against a former client, which failed to pay a batch of legal bills after an adverse outcome in a trade secrets case in Kentucky.

  7. July 11, 2023

    Client Hailed McCarter & English Before Malpractice Claim

    A former client of McCarter & English LLP repeatedly praised his attorneys in the run-up to a civil trial in Kentucky, but soon after losing, accused them of malpractice and decided to fire the legal team, a Connecticut federal jury heard Tuesday.

  8. July 10, 2023

    McCarter & English Client Didn't Notice Rate Hikes, Jury Hears

    A dietary supplement company founder battling McCarter & English LLP over a $2 million legal bill admitted to a Connecticut federal jury Monday that he didn't thoroughly read the firm's invoices, but also refuted the firm's claim that he was verbally informed about the rate hikes at the heart of his counterclaim.  

  9. July 07, 2023

    Trial Loss Spurred McCarter & English Fee Spat, Jury Told

    McCarter & English LLP partner Mark D. Giarratana testified in Connecticut federal court Friday that over the course of 23 years, he "never" informed an ex-client in writing that the hourly rates it was expected to pay were rising, but the bills were always settled up without complaint until the ex-client was slammed with a multimillion-dollar judgment.

  10. July 06, 2023

    McCarter & English Partner Defends Firm's Billing In Fee Suit

    Mark D. Giarratana, a partner at McCarter & English LLP, testified at the start of a Connecticut federal trial on Thursday that a former client received more than $1.5 million in discounts on its legal bills connected to a trade secrets lawsuit, but asked for an even steeper cut before failing to pay in full.