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.
May 18, 2022 | Litigation Daily
Overcoming Fear of Public Failure and Embracing Mentorship: Asian American Judges Trace Their Paths to the Bench"Being a first Asian American anything is great," said Judge Holly Fujie of Los Angeles County Superior Court. "But making sure that you're not the last Asian American something is even more important."
By Ross Todd
6 minute read
May 16, 2022 | Litigation Daily
Skadden Appellate Head Shay Dvoretzky On Making Business Arguments to a Textualist Supreme Court"I think that's even more true now than it used to be the court seems more willing to follow the statutory text wherever it leads, even if that has adverse policy consequences for businesses," says Dvoretzky, who moved to Skadden to launch its Supreme Court and appellate practice about 18 months ago.
By Ross Todd
7 minute read
May 13, 2022 | Litigation Daily
Litigators of the Week: Patterson Belknap Scores a $2 Billion Trade Software Secret Verdict in Virginia for Software Maker AppianRival software company Pegasystems referred internally to a developer who had access to confidential Appian code as "our spy." After a seven-week trial, a Virginia state court jury sided with Appian and their trial team led by Adeel Mangi, Muhammad Faridi and Jeffrey Ginsberg of Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler.
By Ross Todd
9 minute read
May 13, 2022 | Litigation Daily
Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout OutsA Delaware federal jury awarded Quinn Emanuel client Complete Genomics $333 million in damages last week, while also invalidating two patents asserted by competitor Illumina.
By Ross Todd
5 minute read
May 12, 2022 | Litigation Daily
Sweet Home California? How 2 Former Chicago Prosecutors Came to Lead Jenner & Block's SF and LA OfficesBack when they were AUSAs in Chicago a decade ago, Reid Schar and Brandon Fox talked about their mutual goal to end up in California. Now they're leading Jenner's offices in San Francisco and Los Angeles respectively.
By Ross Todd
9 minute read
May 11, 2022 | Litigation Daily
Genetic Stop and Frisk? Gibson Dunn Pairs With Legal Aid to Block 'Familial Search' of New York's DNA DatabaseNew York's Appellate Division, First Department issued a 3-2 decision last week siding with Gibson Dunn, Legal Aid and their clients, finding that the state agencies that authorized the practice had overstepped their authority.
By Ross Todd
5 minute read
May 10, 2022 | Litigation Daily
Keeping Up With Cooley: How Tech's Favorite Litigators Won a Major Defamation Trial for the Kardashian-Jenner FamilyCooley's Mike Rhodes and Michelle Doolin discuss representing members of the preeminent reality TV family in a $100 million defamation lawsuit brought by Rob Kardashian's ex-fiancé, Blac Chyna.
By Ross Todd
6 minute read
May 09, 2022 | Litigation Daily
Litigation Leaders: Winston & Strawn's Steve D'Amore Says the Firm Always Keeps an 'Eye on Succession'"We recently transitioned our litigation leadership team to include a new and more diverse generation of leaders, which has empowered our rising stars to take on greater ownership of the litigation department's and the firm's future."
By Ross Todd
14 minute read
May 06, 2022 | Litigation Daily
Litigators of the Week: The Cravath Team Defending Elon Musk from Shareholder Claims Over the Tesla-SolarCity DealDelaware Vice Chancellor Joseph Slights last week found the deal process was "far from perfect," but the price Tesla paid for SolarCity was "entirely fair" — a win for Musk and his trial team led by Evan Chesler, Daniel Slifkin and Vanessa Lavely.
By Ross Todd
12 minute read
May 06, 2022 | Litigation Daily
Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout OutsAfter a two-week trial in Richmond, Virginia, a federal jury this week sided with Sullivan & Cromwell client Columbia University finding that NortonLifeLock Inc. infringed two cybersecurity patents developed by professors at Columbia's Intrusion Detection Systems Laboratory.
By Ross Todd
4 minute read
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