Ross Todd

Ross Todd is the Editor/columnist for the Am Law Litigation Daily. He writes about litigation of all sorts. Previously, Ross was the Bureau Chief of The Recorder, ALM's California affiliate. Contact Ross at [email protected]. On Twitter: @Ross_Todd.

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September 30, 2022 | Litigation Daily

Litigators of the Week: Quinn Wins $21M in Back Pay for St. Croix Oil Storage Facility and Preserves 9-Digit Lease with SINOPEC Affiliate

Chris Porter, Silpa Maruri and Mark McNeill of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan convinced an arbitration panel to deny a request by China's Unipec to terminate its $500 million oil storage lease with Limetree Bay Terminals, which still had about five years left.

By Ross Todd

6 minute read

September 30, 2022 | Litigation Daily

Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout Outs

Desmarais LLP founding partner John Desmarais brought home a $272.5 million damages verdict for client Ravgen in a patent case against medical testing giant Labcorp related to non-invasive prenatal genetic testing.

By Ross Todd

7 minute read

September 29, 2022 | Litigation Daily

A 'Moneyball' Approach to Jury Selection?

Asking the whole panel of potential jurors scaled questions about issues that actually apply to a case can yield a dataset to drive peremptory challenges.

By Ross Todd

4 minute read

September 28, 2022 | Litigation Daily

A Second Circuit Residency? What It Took for Paul Weiss's Kannon Shanmugam to Argue 3 Appeals in 1 Week

Shanmugam says he "politely demurred" when the clerk's office offered to schedule all three arguments on the same day.

By Ross Todd

6 minute read

September 27, 2022 | Litigation Daily

David Boies: 'Who Gets to Decide What the Righteous Causes Are?'

"When we began to say only people that are minimally acceptable get legal representation, the problem with that is who gets to determine who's minimally acceptable," Boies said.

By Ross Todd

9 minute read

September 26, 2022 | Litigation Daily

Litigation Leaders: Selendy Gay Elsberg's Newest Name Partners Dig Into the Boutique's One-Office Approach

"Among our partners, we have a very deliberate group of people who have chosen to work together—over the course of decades, in fact," says Jennifer Selendy who was co-managing partner of Selendy Gay Elsberg alongside David Elsberg for the boutique's first four years of existence. They joined Philippe Selendy and Faith Gay as name partners at the beginning of this year.

By Ross Todd

13 minute read

September 23, 2022 | Litigation Daily

Litigators of the Week: The Kirkland Team Who Helped UnitedHealth Beat Back DOJ's Antitrust Challenge to a Health-Tech Deal

After a two-week trial, a federal judge in Washington, D.C. greenlighted UnitedHealth Group's $13 billion acquisition of Change Healthcare Inc., handing a big win to Craig Primis, Matt Reilly and Winn Allen of Kirkland & Ellis.

By Ross Todd

9 minute read

September 23, 2022 | Litigation Daily

Another Packed Edition of Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout Outs

The Quinn Emanuel trial team that landed a $174.5 million patent infringement verdict against Meta Platforms and its Instagram subsidiary for client Voxer are this week's first runners-up.

By Ross Todd

6 minute read

September 22, 2022 | Litigation Daily

The Lawyers Behind a Rare Defense Win in the Navy's 'Fat Leonard' Bribery Probe

Tom O'Brien of Ellis George Cipollone O'Brien Annaguey and Daniel Prince of Paul Hastings discuss the defense of retired Rear Admiral Bruce Loveless, which resulted in prosecutors dropping all charges last week after a hung jury this summer.

By Ross Todd

8 minute read

September 21, 2022 | Litigation Daily

'This Would Be a Good Time to Run Out': Sidley's Carter Phillips on Getting Comfortable Behind the Podium

Even Phillips—who in nearly four decades at Sidley Austin has more U.S. Supreme Court arguments in private practice than anybody—felt like he was frozen to his seat during his first argument at the High Court.

By Ross Todd

7 minute read

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