Ross Todd

January 20, 2023 | Litigation Daily

Finnegan's Douglas "Chip" Rettew helped client Under Armour avoid coming off like a Goliath by asking for just $1 in damages in an infringement trial involving the company's Armour-based trademark.

By Ross Todd

10 minute read

January 20, 2023 | Litigation Daily

Robert Maldonado and his team at Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks get runners-up honors for successfully defending fashion designer Thom Browne at trial against trademark claims from sportswear giant Adidas.

By Ross Todd

6 minute read

January 19, 2023 | Litigation Daily

A trial team led by Robert Maldonado of Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks successfully defended luxury designer Thom Browne from claims that his four-stripe designs infringed Adidas' three-stripe trademark.

By Ross Todd

5 minute read

January 18, 2023 | Litigation Daily

Norton Rose Fulbright's survey of more than 430 general counsel and in-house litigation leaders based in the U.S. and Canada found that litigation budgets are going up, but an increasing portion of that spending is going to personnel and other in-house expenses.

By Ross Todd

5 minute read

January 17, 2023 | Litigation Daily

In conversation with Dean Erwin Chemerinsky of UC Berkeley School of Law, Prelogar discussed soaking up every Supreme Court argument during the two years she clerked for Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Elena Kagan.

By Ross Todd

6 minute read

January 13, 2023 | Litigation Daily

Latham & Watkins partners Chris Yates and Aaron Chiu won summary judgment for the organization formerly known as Fédération Internationale de Natation, or FINA, on claims it conspired with national federations to boycott an upstart professional swimming league.

By Ross Todd

9 minute read

January 13, 2023 | Litigation Daily

First runners-up honors this week goes to a team at Williams & Connolly that got an appellate win for GlaxoSmithKline upholding a ruling knocking out multidistrict litigation.

By Ross Todd

4 minute read

January 12, 2023 | Litigation Daily

Demand for legal services contracted by 0.1% last year across all practices, according to a new study from Georgetown University and Thomson Reuters reports. Although demand for litigation services from Am Law 100 firms was off by 2% year over year, it was up at midsize firms by 1%.

By Ross Todd

6 minute read

January 11, 2023 | Litigation Daily

Baker McKenzie labeled cybersecurity/data and ESG "the big two" given how often they were cited by the 600 in-house legal and risk professionals the firm reached out to as part of its sixth annual disputes survey.

By Ross Todd

5 minute read

January 10, 2023 | Litigation Daily

According to ISS Securities Class Action Services, 10 securities-related class actions settled for between $100 million and $1 billion in the U.S. last year. That more than doubled the number from 2021.

By Ross Todd

4 minute read