Article by Jessie Seyfer posted on Law.com, October 1, 2007:

A federal magistrate cleared the way Friday for Qualcomm’s former outside litigators to publicly explain their roles in the company’s failure to turn over hundreds of thousands of discoverable documents.

And if the lawyers’ explanations don’t adequately get to the truth of what happened, the judge will consider sanctions against Qualcomm itself, according to attorneys involved in the case. San Diego, Calif., federal Magistrate Judge Barbara Major had earlier threatened sanctions against all of Qualcomm’s outside counsel….

Blog entry by Ralph Losey posted on e-Discovery Team, August 18, 2007:

The other shoe has dropped in a case that many California attorneys were already talking about, Qualcom Inc. v.  Broadcom Corp.; it hit with such a loud thud that attorneys all over the country will now take notice. Qualcomm Inc. v. Broadcom Corp., No. 05-CV-1958-B(BLM) Doc. 599 (S.D. Cal. Aug. 13, 2007). This is an Order to Show Cause directed against all attorneys who represented the plaintiff, Qualcomm, in a patent infringement case it brought against Broadcom.  The Order specifically names 14 attorneys from two prominent law firms, one local and one national, but also includes “any and all other attorneys who signed discovery responses, signed pleadings and pre-trial motions, and/or appeared at trial on behalf of Qualcomm.” The Order requires these attorneys to appear in the District Court in San Diego on August 29, 2007 at 9:30 a.m. to show cause why sanctions should not be imposed against them for failure to comply with the Court’s orders….