The manufacturer of Bratz dolls has replaced its lawyers for the second time this year in preparation for the next phase of its long-running copyright battle with Mattel Inc.
In a July 7 order, Larson approved MGA's request to replace its current attorneys — Patricia Glaser, of Los Angeles-based Glaser, Weil, Fink, Jacobs, Howard & Shapiro, and Russell J. Frackman, a partner at Los Angeles-based Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp — with a team of attorneys from Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe led by Annette L. Hurst in San Francisco. Three other Orrick attorneys — Melinda Haag, Warrington S. Parker III and William A. Molinski — are joining MGA's legal team, as well.
The counsel swap is the second so far this year for MGA, which in January replaced Thomas Nolan, a partner in the Los Angeles office of New York's Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, with Glaser and Frackman. Nolan, co-chairman of Skadden's West Coast litigation practice, handled the jury trial last year.
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