Jan Wolfe

May 15, 2014 | Litigation Daily

For many defense lawyers, winning a ruling that could stem the tide of shareholder lawsuits would be a career-defining achievement. For Ruskin, it was the icing on the cake in an influential sports law case he's dominated from start to finish.

By Jan Wolfe

4 minute read

May 14, 2014 | Litigation Daily

A year after the Obama administration's highly unusual intervention in the case, an appeals court has killed off the last of Samsung's patent claims against Apple at the U.S. International Trade Commission.

By Jan Wolfe

2 minute read

May 14, 2014 | Litigation Daily

Lawyers at Latham & Watkins and the ITC won a chance to reverse a controversial ruling that restricts the ITC's authority to issue import bans in some cases.

By Jan Wolfe

3 minute read

May 13, 2014 | Litigation Daily

Last month the Supreme Court made it easier for judges to put losing patent plaintiffs on the hook for attorney fees. But persuading a judge to award fees is still an uphill battle, as Duane Morris was reminded Monday in an East Texas IP fight.

By Jan Wolfe

3 minute read

May 13, 2014 | Litigation Daily

Apple's lawyers lost a skirmish in their battle to rein in the company's court-appointed antitrust monitor, Michael Bromwich of Goodwin Procter.

By Jan Wolfe

4 minute read

May 12, 2014 | Litigation Daily

Chevron's lawyers at Gibson Dunn want to force litigation consulting and e-discovery company H5 to help them build their case against Russell DeLeon, the Gibraltar-based billionaire who helped fund a massive environmental case against Chevron in Ecuador.

By Jan Wolfe

3 minute read

May 12, 2014 | Litigation Daily

The Wylys, accused of using offshore trusts to hide illegal trades, were represented by a father-and-son team at Susman Godfrey, Stephen and Harry Susman.

By Jan Wolfe

2 minute read

May 09, 2014 | Litigation Daily

A federal judge has ordered ABN AMRO Bank to stop using software that it was ruled to have infringed, rejecting arguments by Schulte Roth that ABN should receive a license to the software because it had become important to the company's business.

By Jan Wolfe

3 minute read

May 09, 2014 | Litigation Daily

The Federal Circuit agreed that DuPont acted in bad faith in a patent suit brought by Monsanto, but fell short of committing "fraud on the court." Gibson Dunn argued on behalf of DuPont while Wilmer represented Monsanto.

By Jan Wolfe

4 minute read

May 08, 2014 | Litigation Daily

General Electric has won its unusual legal battle with an ex-employee who aligned himself with Mitsubishi in a bitter patent fight over wind turbine technology.

By Jan Wolfe

3 minute read