Ross Todd
Ross Todd is the Editor/columnist for the Am Law Litigation Daily. He writes about litigation of all sorts. Previously, Ross was the Bureau Chief of The Recorder, ALM's California affiliate. Contact Ross at [email protected]. On Twitter: @Ross_Todd.
January 20, 2012 | Legaltech News
Making Peace, Alcatel-Lucent and Microsoft Settle Decade-Plus LitigationWith a one-paragraph order filed Tuesday, Judge Marilyn Huff of the Southern District of California brought a hard-fought patent litigation between Alcatel-Lucent and Microsoft to an end.
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September 25, 2013 | The American Lawyer
Wilson Sonsini Slashes 35 Secretarial JobsWilson Sonsini announced Wednesday that it is eliminating about 35 secretarial positions primarily in its Palo Alto, Calif., office. Co-managing partners Douglas Clark and Jack Sheridan announced the move internally in a firmwide memo Wednesday morning obtained by The Am Law Daily.
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April 16, 2013 | Law.com
No-Fault Settlement with SAC Capital Conditioned on Outcome of Citi CaseBy Ross Todd
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January 17, 2013 | The American Lawyer
Irell Moves to Toss Suit Claiming Bill Koch Corralled Oxbow ExecIrell & Manella has handled some interesting litigation lately for the uber-billionaire William Koch, including a suit claiming that Koch was duped into buying wine that once supposedly belonged to Thomas Jefferson. Now Irell partner John Hueston is playing defense for Koch, hoping to fend off claims that the Oxbow Group founder detained an Oxbow executive in an Old-West ghost town on his Colorado ranch.
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January 14, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer
Settlement Reached With Eli Lilly in DES Breast Cancer TrialFor decades, a small group of plaintiffs lawyers have been pressing claims against companies that made and sold a synthetic estrogen known as diethylstilbestrol, or DES, which was prescribed to millions of pregnant women to ward off premature births and miscarriages from 1948 to 1971.
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November 13, 2012 | Law.com
Nixon Peabody Gets $20 Million Fee for '100 Percent' Win in New Hampshire Budget BattleBy Ross Todd
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August 15, 2012 | The American Lawyer
Big Porn v. Big Web Ruling Could Spell Trouble for ICANNA case pitting adult entertainment companies against the gatekeepers of Internet domain names cleared a key hurdle this week, when a federal judge in Los Angeles largely allowed antitrust claims over the controversial .xxx domain to go forward.
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May 10, 2012 | Law.com
Weil Scores for CBS in Second Circuit Ruling on $14 Billion WritedownBy Ross Todd
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December 18, 2012 | Law.com
Amgen to Pay $150 Million for Misdemeanor Charge of Misbranding Anemia DrugBy Ross Todd
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May 28, 2008 | National Law Journal
Layoffs at Sonnenschein: More than 100 lawyers, staff cutAccording to a post on Above the Law, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal has recently laid off 37 lawyers, 75 staff members, and 12 non-lawyer timekeepers. Firm chairman Elliot Portnoy said the firm's litigation and real estate departments — the firm's largest practices — were most directly affected. Earlier this month Portnoy told The American Lawyer that the current economic climate had affected the firm's lateral push. "Naturally in a challenging economic climate, we've ramped up the due diligence process," he said.
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