John B. Quinn is an American lawyer and one of the founding

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known today as Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP. In 2011, Quinn was listed as one of America's "Most Influential Lawyers" by the ''

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''. In a 2016 poll by ''Bloomberg Big Law Business'', readers voted Quinn the country's “Most Famous Practicing Lawyer” at a top U.S. firm.

Career

Quinn attended

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and

Harvard Law School Harvard Law School (Harvard Law or HLS) is the law school of Harvard University, a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1817, it is the oldest continuously operating law school in the United States. Each class ...

, where he was an editor of the ''

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'' and a Knox Fellow. He graduated in 1976 and joined the law firm of

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in New York, practicing corporate law between 1976 and 1979. In 1986, he co-founded the law firm today known as Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, a litigation-only law firm headquartered in Los Angeles. Quinn has served as general counsel to the

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, the organization that gives out the Oscars, since 1986. In 2012, Quinn obtained a dismissal for Mattel with prejudice of a Sherman Act suit brought by a MGA Entertainment Inc. In 2015, Quinn represented Nestlé USA, Inc. and Nestlé Dreyer’s Ice Cream Company in an antitrust action brought by Clemmy’s involving an alleged conspiracy to exclude competition in a claimed market for ice cream. The Court ruled that Clemmy’s hadn’t presented enough evidence to warrant the case reaching a jury trial. In 2018, Quinn was lead trial counsel for Japanese entertainment company Tsuburaya Productions Co., Ltd. in a dispute concerning ownership of rights of the “Ultraman” superhero character. The jury would find in favor of Tsuburaya. Quinn launched his legal podcast Law, disrupted in March 2022. Guests have included fellow lawyers, the Mayor of New York Eric Adams, and Johnny Depp trial lawyer Camille Vasquez. In October 2022, at that year's Saudi-backed

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conference, Quinn told the ''New York Times'' that "the Saudis understand the oil market better than anybody else in the world. I think you have to take them seriously on the merits when they say we sense a declining demand, we need a stable market... What's the U.S. argument? We asked you to ncrease supplyand you didn't do it?"

Personal life

In 2013 Quinn opened Q Sushi in downtown LA with Chef Hiroyuki Naruke of Tokyo. It is an omakase menu of Chef Hiro's interpretation of artisan Edo-style sushi. In 2019, Q received a

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star. Quinn brought the

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to Los Angeles in June 2016. Quinn has twice completed the Ironman World Championships in Kona, Hawaii.

References

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Law firm biography
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