Ross Todd

September 17, 2009 | The American Lawyer

Constantine Trela, Jr., convinced the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to knock out a $358 million award against Microsoft.

By Ross Todd

2 minute read

September 01, 2008 | The American Lawyer

NALP changes the rules on summer offers.

By Ross Todd

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September 15, 2010 | The American Lawyer

What's behind the recent rash of lateral hires among The Am Law 200?

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September 24, 2009 | The American Lawyer

Manhattan federal district court judge Denny Chin, presiding over the criminal proceedings of Bernard Madoff, concluded that it wouldn't be feasible to order restitution for victims of the Ponzi scheme. Instead, victims will be compensated under forfeiture principles.

By Ross Todd

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October 08, 2010 | The American Lawyer

If the fight over U.S. rights to the famed Stolichnaya trademark were a vodka martini, you could consider it both shaken and stirred by an appellate ruling reviving a case that Russia considers a matter of national pride.

By Ross Todd

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January 11, 2012 | The American Lawyer

Lawyers for Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch at Sullivan & Cromwell, Morgan Lewis, and O'Melveny & Myers persuaded a state court judge in San Francisco to throw out Overstock's nearly five-year-old suit, which originally accused 10 brokerage firms of illegally manipulating the market for its shares through naked short sales.

By Ross Todd

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January 24, 2012 | The American Lawyer

An Arkansas federal judge entered the $27.1 million judgment a little more than a year after Morgan Chu of Irell & Manella squared off against AccessClosure counsel Charles Verhoeven of Quinn Emanuel at a December 2010 jury trial.

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2 minute read

April 14, 2006 | Corporate Counsel

Whoever coined the Las Vegas phrase "What happens here, stays here" probably wasn't thinking about the town's vintage casinos. But the impending demolition of the Stardust Hotel and Casino, a Las Vegas institution since 1969, is good news for one young in-house lawyer. The Stardust's location will be the site for a 63-acre, $4 billion development. Michael Mathis, 33, is vice president and GC for developer Echelon Resorts Corp., a subsidiary of Boyd Gaming Corp.

By Ross Todd

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July 06, 2011 | The American Lawyer

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June 01, 2011 | Legaltech News

Lawyers at Orrick know a thing or two about trade secret litigation. The firm just helped MGA Entertainment to a remarkable verdict in its trade secret fight with Mattel. Now eBay and its PayPal subsidiary have hired Orrick to sue Google for allegedly stealing trade secrets -- just as Google unveiled a new service that lets customers use their smartphones to pay at checkout counters.

By Ross Todd

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