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.

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October 19, 2011 | Corporate Counsel

Kodak Prints Patent Licensing Deal With IMAX

Eastman Kodak licensed IMAX exclusive rights to a portfolio of more than 50 patent families covering laser projection technology in a deal announced Monday. The deal will allow IMAX to project digital content onto its largest screens?something the company currently relies on film to do.

By Ross Todd

2 minute read

December 01, 2011 | The American Lawyer

A Capital Concept

Firms are taking equity in clients. And not just the Silicon Valley regulars.

By Ross Todd

8 minute read

August 26, 2013 | The American Lawyer

Equatorial Guinea Ordered to Pay Lobbying Firm For Expenses

A federal judge in Washington, D.C. on Monday awarded Lanny Davis's lobbying and crisis management firm nearly $160,000 for unpaid expenses incurred while working for the government of Equatorial Guinea.

By Ross Todd

3 minute read

September 23, 2013 | The American Lawyer

S&C Beats Back Novell Appeal in Microsoft Antitrust Case

Microsoft's lawyers at Sullivan & Cromwell vowed last July they'd easily preserve their big antitrust win against Novell, the sole remaining antitrust plaintiff challenging Microsoft over its market dominance in the 1990s. On Monday they delivered on that promise.

By Ross Todd

3 minute read

January 10, 2013 | The American Lawyer

Settlement Ends Hope of Breakthrough Verdict in DES Breast Cancer Trial

Plaintiffs lawyers missed a chance to strike a body blow to defendants facing breast cancer-related claims over a long-discredited synthetic estrogen treatment this week, when the first such case to go before a jury settled in the midst of trial.

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3 minute read

December 20, 2012 | The American Lawyer

Kentucky AG Can't Dodge Merck's Due Process Suit over Vioxx Contingency Counsel

U.S. District Judge Danny Reeves in Kentucky first rejected the AG's bid to dismiss the case back in March, sustaining Merck's claims that the use of contingency fee attorneys violates its rights under the Fourteenth Amendment. On Wednesday, Reeves refused to toss the case yet again, handing another early-round victory to the company and its counsel at Skadden and Frost Brown Todd.

By Ross Todd

4 minute read

May 08, 2012 | The American Lawyer

Still Trying to Duck AT&T Arbitration Clause, iPhone Plaintiffs Fight to Keep Antitrust Case Alive

Lawyers at Wolf Haldenstein saw their antitrust claims against Apple and AT&T Mobility founder on an AT&T arbitration agreement with iPhone customers last year. On Monday they argued for another bite at Apple.

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3 minute read

January 11, 2012 | Daily Business Review

States fend off litigators' claims to share of $950 million

Florida and two other states that settled criminal and civil Vioxx claims successfully fought attempts by civil litigators to claim a share of the $950 million fund.

By Ross Todd

3 minute read

May 30, 2013 | The American Lawyer

Gutted MBS Suit Against BofA Can Move Forward

Bank of America lost a bid Wednesday to shake claims brought by the trustee for a $1.75 billion mortgage-backed securities deal. But the bank's lawyers at Arnold & Porter and Munger, Tolles & Olson narrowed the case to just a fraction of the loans at issue.

By Ross Todd

3 minute read

September 16, 2013 | The American Lawyer

Madoff Feeder Fund Investors Lose Second Circuit Case

Manhattan U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff, sitting by designation on the Second Circuit, found that Madoff's phony, phantom trades in securities counted as securities transactions under SLUSA--even if they weren't real.

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