Ross Todd

December 27, 2024 | Litigation Daily

Let’s Hear It One Last Time!: One More Bow for 2024’s Litigators of the Week

Quinn Emanuel’s two-year reign atop the Litigator of the Week league tables comes to an end with a new but familiar name amassing the most wins this year.

By Ross Todd

16 minute read

December 26, 2024 | The American Lawyer

What We Heard From Litigation Leaders This Year

Here's one last visit with the 18 leaders of Big Law litigation practices and elite boutiques we connected with this year as part of our Litigation Leaders Q&A series.

By Ross Todd

15 minute read

December 26, 2024 | Litigation Daily

What We Heard From Litigation Leaders in 2024

Here's one last visit with the 18 leaders of Big Law litigation practices and elite boutiques we connected with this year as part of our Litigation Leaders Q&A series.

By Ross Todd

15 minute read

December 23, 2024 | Litigation Daily

Litigation Leaders: Greenspoon Marder’s Beth-Ann Krimsky on What Makes Her Team ‘Prepared, Compassionate and Wicked Smart’

“The value of coming to a Greenspoon Marder lawyer is our attorneys handle cases from beginning to end and actually do go to trial.”

By Ross Todd

11 minute read

December 20, 2024 | Litigation Daily

Litigators of the Week: After a 74-Day Trial, Shook Fends Off Claims From Artist’s Heirs Against UMB Bank

Lawyers for Thomas Hart Benton’s heirs were seeking hundreds of millions of dollars based on claims UMB Bank mismanaged the family trust for the artist at the forefront of the Regionalist movement and lost more than 100 of his works. A judge in Kansas City awarded just $35,000 for five works unaccounted for by the bank, represented at trial by Todd Ruskamp, Patrick Kenney and Russell Shankland of Shook, Hardy & Bacon.

By Ross Todd

10 minute read

December 20, 2024 | Litigation Daily

Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout-Outs

Those taking home Runners-Up honors this week include litigators at Debevoise, Kirkland, Patterson Belknap, Stris & Maher, Weil and Winston & Strawn.

By Ross Todd

7 minute read

December 18, 2024 | The Recorder

‘It's Your Funeral’: On Avoiding Damaging Your Client’s Case With Uncivil Behavior

Here are some thoughts on professionalism, ethics and civility in the courtroom from Judge Jay Quam in Minnesota, Judge Margaret Schreiber in Florida and Retired Justice William Bedsworth in California.

By Ross Todd

5 minute read

December 18, 2024 | Litigation Daily

‘It's Your Funeral’: Avoiding Doing Damage to Your Client’s Case With Uncivil Behavior

Here are some thoughts on professionalism, ethics and civility in the courtroom from Judge Jay Quam in Minnesota, Judge Margaret Schreiber in Florida and Retired Justice William Bedsworth in California.

By Ross Todd

5 minute read

December 17, 2024 | Litigation Daily

Why the Founders of IP Boutique Fisch Sigler Are Stepping Away From the Law and Starting an AI Venture

Alan Fisch and Bill Sigler announced last month that Dec. 31 will be Fisch Sigler’s last day of operation. They’re launching a new company aimed at applying artificial intelligence to agriculture.

By Ross Todd

5 minute read

December 16, 2024 | The Recorder

Practice Tips From—and About—the New Judges on the Northern District of California Bench

U.S. District Judges Trina Thompson, Araceli Martínez-Olguín, Casey Pitts, Rita Lin and Eumi Lee, all appointees of President Joe Biden, spoke about what they expect from lawyers who come before them at an event in San Francisco last week.

By Ross Todd

10 minute read

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