Edgar G. Sargent

Edgar Sargent represents plaintiffs and defendants in complex commercial cases in courts across the United States. He has significant experience in antitrust, intellectual property, and accounting malpractice cases, as well as breach of contract and business tort claims.

Yale University (B.A. in philosophy, 1986)
University of Washington (J.D. with high honors, 1998)

Clerked for Judge John C. Coughenour, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington.

• Fraternities: Order of the Coif
• Editor in Chief, Washington Law Review, 1997-1998
• Law Clerk to the Honorable John C. Coughenour, Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, 1998-2000
• Part-time lecturer, University of Washington School of Law, summer term 2000
• Named "Rising Star" by Washington Law & Politics (2006)

State Bar of Washington

• Retained to conduct confidential investigation into potential professional malpractice claims on behalf of billion-dollar bankruptcy estate.
• Currently representing the Chrysler bankruptcy estate in multi-billion dollar fraudulent conveyance claims against Chrysler's former parent, Daimler, and several former directors.
• Represented SuperSpeed Software in patent infringement claims agains IBM. The case settled on confidential terms favorable to Mr. Sargent's client three months before trial was scheduled.
• Represented the bankruptcy estate of Metropolitan Mortgage, a formerly $2 billion financial company from Washington
• State, in claims against auditors and other professionals. Claims against PricewatershouseCoopers settled for $30million on the eve of trial. Claims against a second audit firm were resolved in a confidential arbitration. 
• Counsel for ACE Insurance Ltd. in coverage claims brought by the Boston Chicken, Inc. bankruptcy trustee under a Directors & Officers policy.
• Counsel for Forgent Networks in patent infringement claims against over thirty defendants, including Microsoft, Apple, Kodak, and Hewlett Packard, related to the JPEG image compression algorithm.
• Represented SuperSpeed Software, Inc. in a patent infringement claim against Oracle Corporation. The case was settled on confidential terms in December 2005, shortly after the Court issued a claim construction ruling highly favorable to SuperSpeed.
• Counsel for Gateway Computers in developing antitrust and related claims against Microsoft. After extensive negotiations in which Gateway was represented by Susman Godfrey attorneys Parker Folse, Mr. Sargent, and Brooke Taylor, Gateway's released its antitrust claims against Microsoft as part of an agreement under which Microsoft will pay Gateway $150 million.
• Counsel for Seattle-based software company in confidential contract and intellectual property dispute with a prominent
• East-Coast technology company. The case settled on terms favorable to Mr. Sargent's client after a mediation.
• With a team of Susman Godfrey attorneys led by Steve Susman, Mr. Sargent represented a consortium of eighty financial institutions in claims against a big-four accounting firm. Mr. Sargent's clients had loaned $2.1 billion to fund a merger and later learned that the borrower's financial statements had been inaccurate. The case settled the day before jury selection was to begin on terms favorable to Susman Godfrey's clients.
• Successfully defended major manufacturer of building materials in trademark, trade dress, and related claims by competitor claiming that product patterns had been copied.