Ross Todd

August 13, 2009 | Law.com

Texas federal Judge Leonard Davis on Tuesday rejected Microsoft's request to throw out Toronto-based i4i's recent $200 million win, and added almost $90 million to the May jury verdict: about $40 million for willful infringement of i4i's patent on electronic document processing and about $37 million in post-trial interest. The judge also issued an injunction banning Microsoft from selling products that violate i4i's patent, including some versions of Microsoft Word.

By Ross Todd

3 minute read

August 26, 2009 | The Recorder

A Manhattan federal judge wants to know more about the firms' role in preparing BofA's proxy and disclosure materials for its September 2008 merger with Merrill Lynch.

By Alison Frankel and Ross Todd

6 minute read

January 29, 2010 | Corporate Counsel

Two former clients have sued Milbank, Tweed, Hadley and McCloy, charging the firm with malpractice, breach of fiduciary duty and breach of contract over the firm's work on the financing of a failed Nebraska ethanol project.

By Ross Todd

3 minute read

February 01, 2010 | The American Lawyer

When The Am Law 200 shed 15 percent of their Charlotte lawyers, it wasn't just business, it was personal. (Pictured here: McGuire Woods's John Fennebresque, left, with partner Scott Vaughn.)

By Ross Todd

27 minute read

August 05, 2009 | Law.com

Since January 2008, Am Law 200 firms have laid off more than 2,900 lawyers. This year, as part of its annual midlevel survey, The American Lawyer asked 6,101 third-, fourth-, and fifth-year associates between late March and mid-May to assess how their firms handled layoffs and how the news was communicated to them, and combined those scores into a single "layoff composite." In a year filled with disappointment, how the bad news was delivered and how departures were characterized mattered.

By Ross Todd

12 minute read

July 22, 2011 | New York Law Journal

By Tom Huddleston Jr. and Ross Todd

5 minute read

November 01, 2007 | Legaltech News

It's a long, sad journey to a hard drive's final resting place.

By Ross Todd

4 minute read

January 27, 2010 | Law.com

The existence of a criminal investigation into Shepard Fairey's behavior during a copyright dispute with The AP over the photo that he used as the source of his iconic Obama "Hope" image became public during arguments before a New York federal judge Tuesday. In a sealed motion, Fairey's lawyers were asking the judge for a six-month extension of the discovery deadline in Fairey's copyright suit against The AP -- in part, it turns out, to allow Fairey to delay his deposition in the face of the criminal probe.

By Ross Todd

3 minute read

August 18, 2009 | Corporate Counsel

A federal judge has ruled that the heirs of Superman cocreator Jerry Siegel are co-owners of copyrights to the first two weeks of Superman daily newspaper strips and other early Superman material, reports sibling publication The Am Law Litigation Daily

By By Ross Todd

2 minute read

August 23, 2010 | The American Lawyer

A pro bono consortium of firms led by Robins, Kaplan helped negotiate the settlement with URS Corp., the San Francisco-based engineering company responsible for inspecting the bridge prior to its collapse.

By Ross Todd

3 minute read