U.S. District Judge Lorna Schofield’s patience snapped. She had already chosen 37-lawyer Scott +
Scott for the colead role in a massive antitrust class action against a dozen major banks. But at a hearing in March, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan’s Steig Olson kept pressing her to reconsider.

“Quinn Emanuel can’t serve as lead counsel in every major litigation in the country,” Schofield told him.