Ergan does hire among the top/best firms in the country when he litigates or has a suit against the company. Charlie NEVER cheapskates on his lawyers. The bad position regarding the TiVo suit boiled down to the jury believing that the TiVo unit left by TiVo for Dish to consider a partnership and subsequently "lost" by Dish, but TiVo NEVER asking for it back, must have, according to published interviews with jurors, meant that Dish opened up the TiVo, stole its secrets and produced the first in house DishPlayer 501 DVR, as the MicroSoft/Dish DishPlayer 7100 was "a disaster," as one juror said. Not a word about code from any jurors regarding the logic they used to reach the decision. MORONS!