Ross Todd

October 30, 2024 | Litigation Daily

Susman Godfrey partner Jacob Buchdahl and associate Stephanie Spies discuss Spies' role handling three witnesses—including cross-examining a key fact witness–during an 11-day bench trial in August that yielded a $1.6 billion win for their client BML Properties.

By Ross Todd

7 minute read

October 29, 2024 | The American Lawyer

"You've got to have a high tolerance for chaos," said Boies, an American Lawyer Lifetime Achievement honoree, of his chosen line of work.

By Ross Todd

9 minute read

October 29, 2024 | Litigation Daily

Gross, the author of "Design Thinking and Visual Advocacy for Lawyers" and an unabashed design enthusiast, gave Litigation Daily a FaceTime tour of the firm's new space where he's the lone lawyer.

By Ross Todd

7 minute read

October 28, 2024 | Litigation Daily

The gun safety advocacy group Everytown Law has grown to a team of 32, including 26 litigators. Today, they're publishing a 110-page manual aimed at helping others bring civil cases on behalf of gun violence survivors and victims targeting reckless and illegal conduct by firearm industry players.

By Ross Todd

6 minute read

October 25, 2024 | Litigation Daily

Michael Ng and Daniel Zaheer of Kobre & Kim represented renewable fuels company Propel against Phillips 66 Co. alongside colleagues in a month-long trial in California state court. Ng argued at closings that a juror question elicited a "confession" from a Phillips executive admitting to liability and trade secret misappropriation.

By Ross Todd

9 minute read

October 25, 2024 | Litigation Daily

A team at Susman Godfrey secured a $1.6 billion win for client BML Properties in a dispute with China Construction America Inc. over delays at the Baha Mar resort casino in the Bahamas.

By Ross Todd

7 minute read

October 23, 2024 | Litigation Daily

Paul Andre, Liza Kobialka and James Hannah of Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel, who have won three trials in the past 10 months, say trying to oversimplify technology for juries is a mistake.

By Ross Todd

6 minute read

October 22, 2024 | Litigation Daily

Litigation Daily explores the chicken/egg question of how plaintiffs lawyers secure leadership appointments in multidistrict litigation with three Seeger Weiss lawyers: Parvin Aminolroaya, Jennifer Scullion and Shauna Itri.

By Ross Todd

11 minute read

October 21, 2024 | Litigation Daily

"Unlike full-service firms where a young associate has the option of trying different practices, junior lawyers (and senior lawyers) come to Quinn because they want to be the very best litigators—and want to learn from the best."

By Ross Todd

13 minute read

October 18, 2024 | Litigation Daily

After a month-long bench trial earlier this year, Roman Silberfeld and Tommy Du of Robins Kaplan and Mark Rosenbaum of Public Counsel secured a ruling voiding the Veterans Administration's leases of portions of the campus to private entities and requiring the construction of new housing for class members.

By Ross Todd

7 minute read