From: jeffrey E. <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, August 15, 2016 12:56 PM To: TOBIANO, Cynthia =span>For Latham & Watkins, defending a Middle Eastern bank accused of stealing trade secrets from a plucky American entrepreneur could have been a tough sell to a federal jury in Orange County, California. (http://www.law.com/image/LitDaily/D=ilyDicta.jpgjThe <http://www.law.com/image/LitDaily/Daily=icta.jpg%5DThe> stakes were high--more than half a billion dollars in=damages--and some of the facts were, ahem, challenging. </=pan> How did Latham lawyers turn a potentially unsympathetic narr=tive into a unanimous win for Dubai-based Emirates NBD Bank PJSC on Thursday? A look at closing arguments by Latham partner Kathryn Ruemmler, who made her first in-court appearance since she stepped down as White House counsel in 2014, is revealing in a watch-the-master-at-work kind of way. Along with Latham partners Daniel Schecter and Dean Dunlavey, she faced off against an equally formidable opponent: Boies, Schiller & Flexner partner William Isaacson, who wasnamed a litigator of the year<http://www.ameri=anlawyer.com/id=1202745123270/Litigator-of-the-Year-William-ls=acson-of-Boies-Schiller> by The American Lawyer in 2015. Ruemmler parachuted into the case on May 20, replacing Stev=n Bauer. He had another case (on behalf of Pacific Gas & Electric«= href="http://www.therecorder.com/id=1202764714611/Split-Verdict-in-PG=-Pipeline-Blast- Case?slreturn=20160712215338" target="_blank">http://w=w.therecorder.com/id=1202764714611/Split-Verdict-in- PGE-P=peline-Blast-Case?slreturn=20160712215338>) going to trial at the same time and couldn't convince U.S. Distric= Judge James Selna to push back the trial date, which had already been delayed several times. This was the lay of=the land: Two weeks before, the Los Angeles Times on May 8 had run a lengthy feature&I=;http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-=nfospan-lawsuit-20160508-story.html chttp://www.latimes.com/bus