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.
August 02, 2022 | Litigation Daily
Brown Rudnick Sex Trafficking Suit Against Pornhub, Visa Clears Major HurdleIn an order issued Friday, U.S. District Judge Cormac Carney kept Visa in the case because "it is alleged to have continued to recognize as a merchant an immense, well known, and highly visible business that it knew used its websites to host and monetize child porn."
By Ross Todd
5 minute read
August 01, 2022 | Litigation Daily
Litigation Leaders: Polsinelli's Stacy Carpenter on Building a Practice That's Both National and Local"While our litigation practice has a national reputation, many of our litigators try cases across the country, and we handle bet-the-company lawsuits and litigate for many large companies, we also value our local reputations and practices."
By Ross Todd
13 minute read
July 29, 2022 | Litigation Daily
Litigators of the Week: With Prosecutors Under Scrutiny, Gibson Dunn Secures No Jail Time for NY Real Estate DeveloperJoel Cohen and Mylan Denerstein of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher secured a sentence of no jail time for Rochester, New York real estate developer Bob Morgan, after he initially faced charges of inflating the values of residential properties to get outsized loans as part of an alleged $500 million fraud scheme.
By Ross Todd
10 minute read
July 29, 2022 | Litigation Daily
A Fresh Batch of Litigator of the Week Runners-UpLitigators from Bartlit Beck, Covington & Burling, Dechert and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher are among the runners-up this week.
By Ross Todd
7 minute read
July 28, 2022 | Litigation Daily
Is Everybody a Bankruptcy Lawyer Now? The Mass Torts March to Chapter 11 Continues3M subsidiary Aearo Technologies filed for bankruptcy Tuesday claiming the massive combat earplug multidistrict litigation it's embroiled in is "broken beyond repair." The move follows last year's Chapter 11 filing by Johnson & Johnson subsidiary LTL Management involving liabilities from talcum powder lawsuits.
By Ross Todd
4 minute read
July 27, 2022 | Litigation Daily
Ain't No Valley Low Enough: Number of New Securities Suits Rises Slightly, But Market Cap Losses SoarThe market volatility of the first half of the year didn't yield a spike in new securities class actions according to the latest numbers from Cornerstone Research. But the price drops at issue in some cases are eye-popping.
By Ross Todd
4 minute read
July 26, 2022 | Litigation Daily
With California DAs Suing ADA Law Firms, a Broad National Dip in New Federal FilingsA recent survey by Seyfarth Shaw found the volume of federal ADA Title III lawsuits fell 22% nationwide year-over-year from the first half of 2021. But the falloff has been most felt in the federal courts in California where DAs in San Francisco and Los Angeles sued firms representing serial ADA filers.
By Ross Todd
5 minute read
July 25, 2022 | Litigation Daily
In Retrospect, the Falloff in Big Law Pro Bono Last Year Seems Inevitable. Is a Comeback This Year Equally Inevitable?Coming on the heels of a banner year for pro bono in Big Law in 2020, firms did significantly less pro bono work "by all key measures," according to Am Law.
By Ross Todd
5 minute read
July 22, 2022 | Litigation Daily
Litigators of the Week: J&J's Team at Orrick Knocks Out a 9-Digit Talc Verdict in New YorkNew York's Appellate Division, First Department sided with Josh Rosenkranz, Bob Loeb and Naomi Scotten of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe ruling that trial evidence did not support a finding that talc caused a Brooklyn woman's cancer.
By Ross Todd
9 minute read
July 22, 2022 | Litigation Daily
Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout OutsOur first runners-up this week are lawyers at Korein Tillery and Pearson, Simon & Warshaw who reached a $185 million deal with Major League Baseball on behalf of current and former minor league baseball players in one of the largest-ever wage-and-hour class action settlements.
By Ross Todd
7 minute read
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