Jenkens & Gilchrist Wins Millions in Suit Against Former IP Client

Jenkens & Gilchrist shut its doors more than two years ago, but the firm just won a jury verdict valued at more than $4 million in a breach of contract suit it filed in July 2007 against a former IP client, Asure Software. Jenkens alleged in a second amended petition filed in June that Asure had agreed in 2004 to pay the firm a certain percentage of fees stemming from a patent licensing program -- which netted the company nearly $100 million between 2001 and 2004 -- but Asure stopped making payments after the firm closed.