Ross Todd

January 29, 2013 | National Law Journal

A federal judge in New Orleans has accepted BP's $4 billion criminal guilty over its role in the catastrophic 2010 oil spill that fouled the Gulf of Mexico. But BP's lawyers still have plenty of work to do managing the company's massive liabilities over the disaster.

By Ross Todd / The Litigation Daily

4 minute read

June 20, 2013 | New York Law Journal

The trademark spat between two purveyors of $40 t-shirts has been ugly from the get-go, but a winner has finally emerged.

By Ross Todd

4 minute read

July 12, 2012 | New York Law Journal

It's been a rough couple of months at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit for investors in feeder funds that lost money in Bernard Madoff's Ponzi mega-fraud.

By Ross Todd

3 minute read

January 02, 2012 | The American Lawyer

The judges, regulators, and lawyers who jumped on the anti-business bandwagon.

By Ross Todd

7 minute read

March 15, 2007 | Daily Report Online

LORD CONRAD BLACK, the deposed CEO of newspaper conglomerate Hollinger Inc., has turned to an unlikely courtroom duo for help with his criminal trial, which started Wednesday. Black's defense pairs Canadian Edward Greenspan with Edward Genson, a man who knows the Chicago courthouses the way Harry Caray knew the bars in Wrigleyville.

By Ross Todd

4 minute read

July 19, 2013 | New York Law Journal

A group that claims to represent more than 400 of NYU's faculty, angry over president John Sexton's stewardship of the school, has demanded that one of Sexton's chief defenders, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz founding partner Martin Lipton, step down from the post that he has held for a decade and a half.

By Ross Todd

5 minute read

November 23, 2011 | The American Lawyer

By Ross Todd

4 minute read

June 18, 2012 | The Recorder

By Ross Todd

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February 21, 2013 | The American Lawyer

Lukey knew there was a chance that jurors would have a hard time identifying with multimillionaire crime novelist Patricia Cornwell in her highly-publicized case against her former financial advisors. But the gamble paid off to the tune of $51 million at trial, and Cornwell's recovery could be even greater when the judge closes the book on the case.

By Ross Todd

4 minute read

March 15, 2007 | National Law Journal

With his criminal trial having opened in Chicago federal court Wednesday, Lord Conrad Black, the deposed CEO of newspaper conglomerate Hollinger Inc., has turned to an unlikely duo: the "Johnnie Cochran of Canada" Edward Greenspan and "Columbo-like" Edward Genson from Chicago.

By Ross Todd

4 minute read