In the midst of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius’ representation of longtime client Hewlett-Packard in a securities fraud suit against the company and its former chairman, Mark Hurd, the federal judge in California overseeing the case issued what can only be described as a very unusual order.
If the parties wanted to have oral argument on the motion to dismiss the second amended complaint, a lawyer with four or fewer years of experience who never argued before the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California would have to argue the motion.
