James M. Pearl
Partner
James Bo Pearl is a partner in O'Melveny's Silicon Valley office, a member of the Business Trial and Litigation Practice, and a member of
The American Lawyer's 2004 "Litigation Department of the Year." Bo focuses on antitrust, accounting, and entertainment litigation.
Illustrative Professional Experience
- Representing Advanced Micro Devices in worldwide monopolization suit against Intel and related regulatory investigations
- Represented a "Big Four" accounting firm and achieved dismissal of $500 million corporate fraud suit at the pleading stage
- Represented a "Big Four" accounting firm in special purpose entities suit brought by a major moving and storage company
- Prosecuted, as first chair, a week-long jury trial for City Attorney's office which resulted in conviction of defendant for assault on minor
- Second-chaired bench trial of criminal defendant wrongly accused of felony gun possession; won full acquittal in a week-long bench trial
- Represented a major bookstore chain in antitrust suit brought regarding pricing from publishers and achieved settlement after two weeks of trial that was labeled by the national press as a "complete surrender" by the plaintiffs
- Represented a casino in shareholder securities suits and obtained three dismissals at the pleading stage
- Represented a motion picture studio in profit participation suit
- Represented a motion picture studio in antitrust suit brought against seven movie studios regarding revenue sharing in the home video industry
- Represented a computer hardware company in its injunction against "knock-off" products
- Represented 14-year-old Salvadoran child in oral argument at Ninth Circuit and obtained new trial
Prior to joining the Firm, Bo was a White House Intern and also worked as a paid press intern for Former Assembly Speaker Willie L. Brown, Jr.
Professional Activities
Member, American Bar Association, Antitrust and Litigation Sections; Century City Bar Association
Speaking Engagements, Bo has spoken on a number of issues from "Large Case Management" to "Document Preservation in an e-Discovery World"
Awards, Named a "Rising Star" in a survey conducted by Law & Politics Media Inc. and published in
Los Angeles magazine (2008)