Ross Todd

October 20, 2023 | Litigation Daily

A trial team led by Jason Sheasby and Lisa Glasser of Irell & Manella convinced jurors in Waco, Texas that Cloudera infringed three StreamScale patents related to technology used to efficiently store data.

By Ross Todd

4 minute read

October 20, 2023 | Litigation Daily

Our first runner-up this week is White & Case partner Jonathan Lamberson who took the lead for Chilisin Electronics Corp. at the Federal Circuit in…

By Ross Todd

6 minute read

October 19, 2023 | Law.com

At a Sept. 6 status hearing, lawyers on both sides of the talcum powder lawsuits against Johnson & Johnson debated the impact of the upcoming amendments to Federal Rule 702 of Evidence.

By Amanda Bronstad | Ross Todd | Ellen Bardash

6 minute read

October 19, 2023 | Litigation Daily

The amendment to Federal Rule of Evidence 702, which deals with expert witness testimony, is set to take effect on Dec. 1. How do the changes affect you?

By Ross Todd

4 minute read

October 18, 2023 | Litigation Daily

"I think the key here is to pick your battles and be brief, be brilliant, and be gone," said Hilary Fox, an in-house attorney with Allstate in Minnesota. "Just get in, get out. Don't ask the one question too many."

By Ross Todd

4 minute read

October 17, 2023 | Litigation Daily

Mona Hanna and Tim Gorry of Michelman & Robinson explain why their firm of just about 80 lawyers designed and implemented its own trial advocacy training program, capped with a mock trial presided over by a retired judge with real jurors.

By Ross Todd

7 minute read

October 16, 2023 | Litigation Daily

Research has shown that people spend nearly 50% of their waking time thinking about something other than what they're doing at the moment. Seattle prosecutor Raam Wong has some tips for dealing with that phenomenon in the jury box.

By Ross Todd

7 minute read

October 13, 2023 | Litigation Daily

Quinn Emanuel's Sean Pak, Melissa Baily and Iman Lordgooei got a ruling from Senior U.S. District Judge William Alsup knocking out the jury award finding the patents underpinning it invalid because of "an unreasonable, inexcusable, and prejudicial delay" of more than 13 years from initial filing to approval.

By Ross Todd

9 minute read

October 13, 2023 | Litigation Daily

A trial team at Panish | Shea | Boyle | Ravipudi won a $135 million damages verdict for two California men who were sexually abused by their sixth-grade teacher starting in 1996 in a case where the school district was on notice of other child molestation complaints against the teacher years earlier.

By Ross Todd

6 minute read

October 11, 2023 | Litigation Daily

In a roundtable published by litigation funder Burford Capital, leaders at Morgan Lewis, Gibson Dunn, Mayer Brown and Proskauer discuss the client- and firm-side motivations behind the growth in Big Law contingency practices.

By Ross Todd

6 minute read