Ross Todd

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

June 01, 2010 | The American Lawyer

Friends and fortune elude Scott Rothstein?s lawyer.

By Ross Todd

4 minute read

February 11, 2013 | The American Lawyer

Goodwin Procter squeezed out slightly more in gross revenues and profits per partner last year than it did in 2011, according to The American Lawyer's reporting, but chair Regina Pisa isn't satisfied with the Boston-based firm's 2012 performance.

By Ross Todd

4 minute read

October 18, 2010 | Daily Report Online

More than 200 legal professionals gathered in Washington on Oct. 7 for the first annual conference of the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity. The Am Law Daily spoke with Hunton Williams partner Robert Grey Jr., the executive director of LCLD, about the conference and four inaugural initiatives launched at the event.

By Ross Todd

5 minute read

October 30, 2012 | The American Lawyer

Gibson Dunn helped client Artemis SA fend off $4.3 billion in claims brought by California's insurance commissioner. A holding company controlled by French businessman François Pinault, Artemis was the last defendant left in a case stemming from the 1991 insolvency of Executive Life Insurance Company. On Monday, a U.S. district court jury in Los Angeles returned a verdict of no damages against Artemis.

By Ross Todd

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