Stanley C. Sandstrom
Visual Communications — Impacting Perceptional Change + Transformation
Since 1995 SCS has provided Visual Communication, Consulting and Litigation Technology Support Services. The practice focuses on complex business and commercial litigation, with an emphasis on intellectual property, anti-trust, and other complex litigation. SCS is highly regarded for energized dedication, thorough preparation, and mastery of presentation impact.
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Repeated requests from the “who’s who” of trial attorneys, is evidence of SCS' ability and passion to provide world-class personalized service, persuasive informational graphics, and compelling visual communications. When your message needs to be clear and convincing, SCS is prepared to provide exceptional service, strategic insight, and compelling visual impact.
Photo: New York State Supreme Court
LITIGATION SUPPORT
In a complex multi-party jury trial involving ADSL technology, SCS provided graphic presentation and trial technology support for the winning defense trial team representing AOL & EarthLink, Inc. Working closely with Mr. “Woody” Jameson of Duane Morris, SCS was responsible for all creative and technical services in both the courtroom and the war room. SCS provided hot-seat support and the production of explanatory and compelling demonstrative graphics — contributing to the “Grand Slam” defense jury verdict of non-infringement and patent invalidity for all three patents in suit.
Consulting for the New York law firm of Weil, Gotshal & Manges and under the direction of Mr. James Quinn, SCS was retained to provide war room facilities management, trial technology, and strategic presentation support for a high-profile anti-trust defense jury trial for Johnson & Johnson. Applied Medical, a small medical device manufacturer, claimed over $150 million in damages.
The plaintiffs asserted that J&J had monopolized the market for endoscopic medical products used in minimally invasive surgery by offering so-called bundled discounts with other J&J products. After a seven week trial, the nine person jury returned with a total defense verdict, rejecting the plaintiff’s claims of exclusionary conduct and upheld as lawful all of J&J’s nationwide contracting practices with billions of dollars in market share at stake.
Under the expert direction of Rudy Hutz, Jeffrey Bove, Mary Bourke, and William McShane of Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz, SCS was retained to provide creative and technical services for both the mock and bench trials to preserve Pfizer’s exclusivity over LIPITOR®; the #1 prescribed branded cholesterol-lowering medication in the world. This was a landmark win over Ranbaxy’s numerous claims of double patenting, inequitable conduct, and invalidity over the prior art, valued at $70 billion. This was the most economically significant patent case for SCS to date.
In a nationwide class action case, SCS was retained for the multi-firm defense team for the Managed Care Multi-District Litigation naming UnitedHealth Group et al. as the primary defendant. SCS was asked to direct and provide all the pre-trial production services, extensive trial evidence management, demonstrative graphics creation and trial presentation services.
SCS worked with several law firms over many months including a 72 hour around-the-clock mock jury in preparation for a pre-trial evidentiary hearing. In that hearing the Federal District Court of the Southern District of Florida in Miami heard arguments and examined defense demonstrative evidence and granted summary judgment in favor of the defense.
In this case, the plaintiffs were seeking more than $13 billion in damages. Previously other health care defendants had settled for more than a billion dollars.
When AT&T Inc. was hit with a $400 million class-action law suit alleging it overcharged California customers when it passed along the Universal Service Fund (USF) fee, the Chicago law firm of Sidley Austin, representing AT&T contacted SCS to provide all visual communications and litigation support services for the trial. In this case the panel ruled that AT&T did not conspire with Sprint or MCI WorldCom Network Services Inc. in overcharging on the fee, which is used to make phone service available in rural and low-income areas, among other places. After several weeks of trial, the jury found in favor of AT&T. In voluntary interviews, several of the jurors commented that the demonstrative exhibits presented in trial helped them to understand the witness testimony and evidence.
Some wins come as split decision. The law firm of Duane Morris represented Cisco in a patent infringement case brought by CSIRO. SCS was retained by the defense team to provide mock and bench trial visual communications and technology support. Cisco dodged a “reasonable royalty” decision of $30 million when Judge Davis in E.D. Texas rejected both parties Damages Models. The patent owner CSIRO sought a per-end product reasonable royalty of about $30 million. Cisco argued a per WiFi chip reasonable royalty of about $1.1 million. Judge Davis found the patent to play a “significant role” in the success of 802.11 products, and derived his own per-end-product reasonable royalty damages award of about $16 million.