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Litigation & Arbitration

Jun. 4, 2018

Trial to begin in dispute over Beats headphones

A former hedge fund manager who helped develop the earliest iteration of Beats headphones will have a second chance to prove the company cheated him out of over $100 million in a trial beginning Tuesday.

A former hedge fund manager who helped develop the earliest iteration of Beats headphones will have a second chance to prove the company cheated him out of over $100 million in a trial beginning Tuesday.

Plaintiff Steven Lamar claims he met music producer Jimmy Iovine in 2006, around the time Iovine co-founded Beats Electronics along with rap mogul Dr. Dre. According to his complaint, Lamar pitched Iovine a plan to develop a celebrit...

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