Ross Todd

October 14, 2022 | Litigation Daily

Our first runners-up this week are Josh Koskoff, Chris Mattei and Alinor Sterling of Koskoff, Koskoff & Bieder who landed a nearly $1 billion verdict…

By Ross Todd

4 minute read

October 13, 2022 | Litigation Daily

"What our practice is all driving towards is trial and that moment where you stand up and you have somebody decide are you going to win or are you going to lose," Hacker said. "Mocks are the first opportunity to get that feedback about your case—and a pretty close corollary to trial."

By Ross Todd

6 minute read

October 12, 2022 | Litigation Daily

In "The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald," Senior U.S. District Judge William Alsup imagines a world where Jack Ruby does not kill Lee Harvey Oswald and Oswald must stand trial for assassinating President John F. Kennedy.

By Ross Todd

8 minute read

October 11, 2022 | Litigation Daily

That lawyer who is cross-examining you might as well be a robot, says Boies. "It's going to have every aspect of a human being except you can't persuade them, you can't intimidate them, you can't control them, you can't change their mind."

By Ross Todd

5 minute read

October 07, 2022 | Litigation Daily

"These cases introduced us to heroic and inspirational people who have responded to traumatic and life-altering events with strength, courage, and work to help better our country," said Willkie's Michael Gottlieb, who led the firm's work on the case with partner Nicholas Reddick.

By Ross Todd

10 minute read

October 07, 2022 | Litigation Daily

Runners-up this week include litigation teams from Fenwick & West; Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher; Hueston Hennigan and Kirkland & Ellis.

By Ross Todd

8 minute read

October 06, 2022 | Litigation Daily

Senior U.S. District Judge Susan Oki Mollway, who wrote a book about the first 15 Asian women Article III judges, says it struck her that the women didn't consider themselves candidates without prompting.

By Ross Todd

5 minute read

October 05, 2022 | Litigation Daily

Harriman reflects on the college's dual goals of improving the standards of trial practice and working towards a trial bar that better reflects the diversity of the greater population.

By Ross Todd

7 minute read

October 04, 2022 | Litigation Daily

"They're getting all of this with a fresh mind," says the Houston-based trial consultant of jurors. "You have to educate them and convince them—all with the chess clock running and the other side standing up and saying the exact opposite of what you're saying."

By Ross Todd

6 minute read

October 03, 2022 | Litigation Daily

"We're a firm where the leaders are in the trenches, as opposed to the leaders being in a corner office dictating policy," Giuffra said.

By Ross Todd

13 minute read