Ross Todd

April 04, 2013 | Daily Report Online

The story of how the Rev. Luther Zeigler traded power ties for the priestly collar has become central to his ministry as the Episcopal chaplain at Harvard University.

By Ross Todd

5 minute read

June 13, 2013 | The American Lawyer

It's been a big week in the gene patent wars, with a landmark Supreme Court decision on the patentability of human DNA and a setback for opponents of genetically modified crops. In both cases, advances in genetic science collided with entrenched ideas about nature and unsettled issues in patent law. And they were both brought by 38-year-old IP lawyer (and newly-litigious investor) Daniel Ravicher of the Public Patent Foundation.

By Ross Todd

4 minute read

March 28, 2013 | The American Lawyer

In an unsettled economy, transactions lawyers had their hands full last year with spin-offs, divestitures, and junk bonds.

By Ross Todd

11 minute read

October 21, 2011 | The American Lawyer

By Ross Todd

3 minute read

October 04, 2013 | New York Law Journal

Southern District Judge Kimba Wood largely sided with the state Monday in a dispute over mixed martial arts, rejecting Ultimate Fighting Championship's claims that New York's Combative Sport ban violates the First Amendment, and the equal protection and commerce clauses.

By Ross Todd

3 minute read

July 18, 2013 | National Law Journal

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's beefed up effort to crack down on alleged manipulations in the energy market is creating headaches on Wall Street and billable hours at big law firms, including Skadden, Cadwalader, Sutherland Asbill, and Gibson Dunn.

By Ross Todd

3 minute read

June 13, 2012 | Delaware Business Court Insider

After Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher knocked out a derivative suit over Allergan Inc.'s marketing of Botox six months ago, the company and its board of directors hoped the litigation had been put to rest. But Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster of the Delaware Court of Chancery, in an opinion Monday that offers a critique of the current landscape of shareholder derivative litigation, refused to dismiss the case even though a federal judge in Los Angeles had thrown out parallel claims brought by separate plaintiffs in January.

By Ross Todd The American Lawyer

5 minute read

February 27, 2012 | New York Law Journal

Shepard Fairey pleaded guilty on Feb. 24 to a federal charge of criminal contempt for destroying documents, fabricating evidence, and engaging in other misconduct amid litigation over his use of an Associated Press photo to create one of the 2008 presidential campaign's most iconic images.

By Ross Todd

3 minute read

September 01, 2006 | The American Lawyer

Point to Robert Pennoyer's accomplishments, and he will quickly point you to others who helped make things happen. The 81-year-old of counsel at Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler has a record of service in private practice, public life, and pro bono that impresses friends and colleagues-if not Pennoyer himself.

By Ross Todd

3 minute read

December 20, 2012 | New York Law Journal

Eastern District Judge Sterling Johnson, Jr. accepted the guilty plea and approved Amgen's global settlement.

By Ross Todd and Tom Murphy

5 minute read