Ross Todd

July 28, 2023 | Litigation Daily

After the U.K.-based maker of a software and robotics platform aimed at online grocers paired with The Kroger Co. to build automated warehouses across the U.S., rival AutoStore went on the patent offensive. But this past week, Garrard Beeney, Marc De Leeuw and Dustin Guzior of Sullivan & Cromwell helped secure a deal that involves AutoStore paying Ocado more than $250 million.

By Ross Todd

10 minute read

July 28, 2023 | Litigation Daily

A team at Shook, Hardy & Bacon won a nine-digit verdict last week for client Touchstream Technologies Inc. against Google Inc.

By Ross Todd

7 minute read

July 27, 2023 | Litigation Daily

Jake Gardener, a former firefighter with Ladder 43 in East Harlem, who is now a partner at Walden Macht & Haran, has represented elderly and disabled retirees in legal challenges to the city's attempt to roll back some supplemental Medicare coverage.

By Ross Todd

7 minute read

July 26, 2023 | Litigation Daily

"In an odd sort of way, the requirement to be impartial, and the related qualities of dispassion are actually sustained by emotion and emotion work," says Kathy Mack, an emeritus professor at Flinders Law School in southern Australia. "So rather than being opposites, they're actually very deeply enmeshed."

By Ross Todd

4 minute read

July 25, 2023 | Litigation Daily

"I think there is some lesson here for the skeptical at times lawyers to just really keep it up and not give up," said Hartnett of her client Nakia Roy, who at times in his decades-long appeals represented himself pro se.

By Ross Todd

6 minute read

July 24, 2023 | Litigation Daily

Cornerstone Research noted in its midyear assessment of securities class actions that the string of bank failures that rocked the markets earlier this year already generated six securities class actions.

By Ross Todd

5 minute read

July 21, 2023 | Litigation Daily

The eyes of the cryptocurrency industry have been on the SEC's case with Debevoise and Kellogg Hansen representing Ripple Labs and Cleary and Paul Weiss representing company executives.

By Ross Todd

11 minute read

July 21, 2023 | Litigation Daily

Runners-up this week include lawyers from Emery Celli Brinckerhoff Abady Ward & Maazel, Latham, Cravath, Kirkland, Cleary and Cooley.

By Ross Todd

6 minute read

July 20, 2023 | Litigation Daily

In what our friends at The American Lawyer called a "post-pandemic reset," average hours were flat in the latest Pro Bono Scorecard, after an earlier, precipitous drop from the time when lawyers filled their pandemic-stalled dockets with pro bono work.

By Ross Todd

5 minute read

July 19, 2023 | Litigation Daily

U.S. Magistrate Judge Robert Norway compared the Coca-Cola Co. to a "jaundiced-eyed vaudeville actor." It might sound like a stretch, but the comparison is actually quite illuminating once you hear the judge's setup.

By Ross Todd

4 minute read