Since joining Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP in April 2018, Harry has become the leader of a newly formed national trial team, parachuting into the firm’s most challenging trials including defending a high eight-figure breach of foreign distribution contract before a state court jury in Miami and obtaining defense verdicts on nine out of ten counts, with the plaintiff being awarded only transition costs; obtaining a favorable ruling on causation during phase one of a bifurcated trial in an admiralty case pending in SDNY involving the explosion of a container ship causing a casualty loss in excess of $300 million; and developing and orchestrating the successful defense in a high eight-figure jury trial in Oklahoma state court involving allegations of bad faith insurance coverage of an experimental cancer treatment. Harry has also served as co-lead for the trial team in a plaintiff patent infringement case pending against Adobe Software in the Eastern District of Virginia in which a jury returned verdicts on infringement and invalidity in favor of plaintiff; and, most recently, acting as co-lead trial counsel in a breach of construction contract jury trial in state court in Boston in which the jury awarded the plaintiff 100 percent of the approximate $22 million in damages sought and rejected defendant’s $12 million in counterclaims.
Parachuting into the most challenging trials in the country (and globally) is nothing new to Harry. He has been doing it since the late 1980s when he co-founded, along with legendary trial lawyer Earle Cooley, a successful litigation boutique in Boston, Cooley Manion Jones. It was with Mr. Cooley that Harry tried his first high-profile case in 1981 between the Toronto Blue Jays and Boston Celtics over the rights to NBA star Danny Ainge, utilizing a trial methodology and approach he learned at the knee of Judge Herb Stern, based upon Judge Stern’s groundbreaking trial treatise “Trying Cases to Win.” Harry became an early Stern disciple, teaching with Judge Stern at his seminars as well as teaching his own trial advocacy class at Boston College Law School for over 10 years.