Ross Todd

September 04, 2024 | Litigation Daily

Sheppard Mullin pro bono partner Daniel Brown began working on disability rights issues after his brother became a wheelchair user after a spinal cord injury.

By Ross Todd

4 minute read

September 03, 2024 | Litigation Daily

Last week a federal jury in Los Angeles convicted former powerhouse plaintiffs lawyer Tom Girardi of four counts of wire fraud in cases where his clients weren't paid what they were due in settlements. We discussed the trial with Law.com's Amanda Bronstad, who has covered Girardi for two decades and was at the trial each day.

By Ross Todd

8 minute read

September 01, 2024 | Litigation Daily

An overview of the weekly Litigator of the Week feature.

By Ross Todd

7 minute read

August 30, 2024 | Litigation Daily

The Second Circuit held that certain funds weren't protected by the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, handing a win to investors represented by Dennis Hranitzky, John Bash and Alex Loomis of Quinn Emanuel.

By Ross Todd

7 minute read

August 30, 2024 | Litigation Daily

Davis Polk & Wardwell secured a win for Morgan Stanley in a case the firm has handled since 2012 against German bank IKB Deutsche Industriebank AG stemming from IKB's purchase of residential mortgage-backed securities between 2005 and 2007.

By Ross Todd

5 minute read

August 28, 2024 | Litigation Daily

When four people were charged with shipping $1 million in dinosaur bones allegedly stolen from public lands in Utah to China, the New York Post and USA Today picked up the story. Prosecutors dropped all charges last week.

By Ross Todd

6 minute read

August 27, 2024 | Litigation Daily

Kirkland & Ellis litigator Mark McKane and his restructuring partner Aparna Yenamandra discuss their recent work on behalf of retail pharmacy Rite Aid, which is poised to emerge from bankruptcy.

By Ross Todd

5 minute read

August 23, 2024 | Litigation Daily

David Zionts of Covington & Burling argued for Monsanto at the Third Circuit in a case where the court held that the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act preempted plaintiffs' failure-to-warn claims brought under Pennsylvania state law. The decision splits with the Ninth and Eleventh Circuits, which rejected Monsanto's preemption arguments in earlier Roundup cases.

By Ross Todd

9 minute read

August 23, 2024 | Litigation Daily

Litigation teams at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and Sullivan & Cromwell secured a nationwide injunction blocking the Federal Trade Commission's proposed ban on non-compete agreements, which was set to go into effect early next month.

By Ross Todd

6 minute read

August 21, 2024 | Litigation Daily

Lawyers on either side of the litigation bar in Los Angeles—Deborah Chang of plaintiff's firm Chang | Klein and Christopher Faenza of defense firm Yoka & Smith—laid out some reasons why it can pay to approach interactions with opposing counsel with civility.

By Ross Todd

5 minute read