Diane M. Doolittle

Trials

• Won more than $93 million in damages in a landslide win as counsel for Olaplex, a California-based start-up, against L’Oreal, the largest beauty company in the world.  Olaplex invented a patent-protected method for protecting and repairing hair during the bleaching process.  The federal jury in Delaware returned a unanimous verdict, finding that L’Oreal had willfully stolen Olaplex’s trade secrets, willfully infringed upon two Olaplex patents, and breached the parties’ NDA.  L’Oreal’s claims of patent invalidity were rejected in total, and the court doubled the non-overlapping portion of the jury’s damages award and granted attorneys’ fees and costs.  The court also granted a permanent injunction barring L’Oreal from selling the infringing products and restored Olaplex to its position as the sole provider of the revolutionary hair care product it invented.
• Obtained dismissal of plaintiff’s claim and won a clean sweep after trial of all counterclaims on behalf of a billionaire high technology client, which included a more than $14 million judgment and permanent injunction against plaintiff for extortion, fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, invasion of privacy, and civil harassment.
• Won a plaintiff’s judgment of more than $23 million for national medical device company after two-week trial in Northern District of California against one of its former directors for breach of fiduciary duty for usurping a corporate opportunity.
• Successfully defended Pfizer in two lengthy trade secret trials lasting over 2 months in Santa Clara County Superior Court; defeated 152 of 159 trade secrets claims and reduced damages from an original claim of $1 billion in damages, to a jury award of just $165,000.
• Won two separate trials in Orange County Superior Court for a billionaire technology entrepreneur accused of wrongfully terminating his estate manager in retaliation for testifying against him in grand jury proceedings, as well as denying her overtime pay. 
• Won a defense verdict following a jury trial in Los Angeles County Superior Court on behalf of a billionaire real estate developer who was accused of fraudulently denying his children more than $150 million in child support.  Argued and successfully defended defense verdict before the California Court of Appeal.
• Won a defense judgment in federal court in the Central District of California on behalf of The Home Depot in a case alleging misappropriation of confidential and trade secret information.
• Won a defense verdict in a two-week antitrust trial seeking hundreds of millions in damages in the Southern District of New York on behalf of a national lawn and garden marketing company.
• Won more than $10 million jury verdict in a two-week trial for breach of contract in the Southern District of Ohio on behalf of a national lawn and garden marketing company.
• Won a defense award following a JAMS international arbitration on behalf of Oracle Corporation, where Oracle's former Saudi Arabian joint venture partner had sued for fraud and breach of contract under Saudi law seeking tens of millions of dollars.
• Won a defense verdict following a six-week jury trial in San Francisco Superior Court on behalf of investment bank Jefferies & Co. in which the plaintiff, a highly compensated investment banker, alleged wrongful termination and discrimination. The verdict was nominated for "Verdict of the Month" by The National Law Journal.
• Won a plaintiffs’ judgment on all claims after trial in Los Angeles County Superior Court on behalf of the CEO of a large, public company in a wrongful death case where the plaintiff’s daughter died of a drug overdose after defendant failed to summon medical care.
• Won a defense award following a six-week trial in an administrative enforcement action brought by the California Department of Managed Health Care against Kaiser Foundation Health Plan.
• Obtained a favorable settlement after six weeks of jury trial in Fresno County Superior Court on behalf of a large security company and its CEO accused of fraud, breach of partnership, and breach of contract.
• Obtained favorable settlement after four weeks of jury trial in Sacramento Superior Court for a national insurance company, where plaintiff claimed that the insurance company failed to reimburse $135 million incurred in cleaning up a major Superfund site.