Attorneys Practice Areas News The Firm Careers Locations ENG Satellite & Aerospace Litigation Sign Up for Publications OVERVIEW REPRESENTATIONS PARTNERS We have broad experience litigating and arbitrating all types of disputes in the aerospace industry, including disputes emanating from the design, development, and manufacturing of satellites and rockets as well as satellite launches and operations. We also have broad experience arbitrating disputes between satellite owners and lessees. We are intimately familiar with the typical terms and provisions of complex contracts that drive these activities and from which many legal disputes arise. Many aerospace disputes involve claims of patent infringement and trade secret misappropriation. These often involve complex technology. No technology is too complicated for our lawyers. More than 140 of our lawyers have engineering or hard science degrees. A number of our lawyers have degrees in aerospace engineering. One of our lawyers was an operations analyst for Rockwell International, responsible for the design of fuel consumption algorithms for the airborne laser. Another one of our lawyers, a former Air Force Officer, worked with the Air Force’s Global Positioning System (GPS) program on long range design and planning issues and was the military officer in charge of organizing and overseeing independent review boards for all satellite projects under the purview of the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center. READ MORE Recent Representations We represented ViaSat, Inc., a company that develops and designs satellites, in a patent infringement and breach of contract suit against Space Systems Loral (“SSL”). The jury found ViaSat’s asserted patents valid. The jury also found that SSL infringed the asserted patents and breached its contractual obligations to ViaSat by improperly using and disclosing ViaSat proprietary information to manufacture a competitive satellite for Hughes Network Systems. The jury’s findings on liability were affirmed by the District Court. Thereafter, the parties entered into a global settlement on terms favorable to ViaSat, including $100 million in cash. We achieved the complete abandonment of an investigation by the Justice Department into claims potentially valued at more than half billion dollars against a major U.S. aerospace and defense contractor. We were engaged midway through a seven year investigation after the U.S. government had contended that the contractor was negligent and had committed violations of the False Claims Act amounting to potentially more than $600 million in damages. After multiple presentations by our attorneys arguing that the government’s case was not supportable under the False Claims Act, government contract regulations or negligence law, the government decided to drop the investigation without taking any action. READ MORE Partners PARTNER James Asperger Los Angeles View Bio vCard PARTNER Jeffrey Boozell Los Angeles View Bio vCard PARTNER Diane Cafferata Los Angeles Chicago View Bio vCard PARTNER Ted Greeno London View Bio vCard VIEW MORE Who Works Here? Take a look and get to know the talented attorneys that are part or our team. LEARN MORE Who Are We? Learn more about our firm and what our attorneys have accomplished. LEARN MORE Ready To Reach Out? Locate the contact information for an office near you to get the conversation started. LEARN MORE © 2021 Contact Us Privacy Policy All rights reserved. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcome. Amounts listed may be aggregates. Design by SPINX Digital We use cookies to improve your experience on our website. By continuing to use our site, or by clicking ‘accept’ you agree to the use of cookies in accordance with our cookie policy. ACCEPT DECLINE Cookies Settings