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.
March 23, 2022 | Litigation Daily
Expanding Out of a Sub-Specialty or Creating One of Your Own: A Career Development Conversation With 2 Latham LitigatorsJamie Wine and Andy Gass say that if you don't see someone with the practice that you want to have, that shouldn't discourage you.
By Ross Todd
10 minute read
March 22, 2022 | Litigation Daily
Two Days. Two Circuits. Two Arguments. 1,100 Miles.Kannon Shanmugam, the chair of the Supreme Court and appellate practice group at Paul Weiss, argued a major climate change appeal at the Eighth Circuit in St. Paul, Minnesota, last Tuesday morning and defended a massive antitrust settlement the next morning at the Second Circuit in Manhattan.
By Ross Todd
5 minute read
March 21, 2022 | Litigation Daily
Note to Class Action Lawyers: Engage with the Objection, Not the ObjectorThe chief judges of California's four federal district courts agree that it's more effective to address the merits of an objection rather than the motives of an objector.
By Ross Todd
4 minute read
March 18, 2022 | Litigation Daily
Litigators of the Week: What the End of Sentence for a Terrorist Tortured at CIA Black Sites Could Mean for Guantanamo Bay's FutureLast week the official overseeing military commissions at Guantanamo slashed 16 years off the sentence of the detainee represented by Katya Jestin of Jenner & Block and Wells Dixon of the Center for Constitutional Rights. Seven of the eight military jurors in their client's case wrote a letter calling his torture "a stain on the moral fiber of America."
By Ross Todd
10 minute read
March 18, 2022 | Litigation Daily
Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout OutsLawyers at Covington & Burling have been representing Ukraine pro bono at the International Court of Justice challenging Russia's pretext for invasion.
By Ross Todd
5 minute read
March 17, 2022 | Litigation Daily
A Rare View From Either Side of a Divided Appellate Panel That's Been Flipped by the Supreme CourtNinth Circuit Judge M. Margaret McKeown and her colleague Senior Circuit Judge William Fletcher on Wednesday discussed the Supreme Court's TransUnion v. Ramirez decision, which reversed a decision where Fletcher was in the majority and McKeown dissented.
By Ross Todd
4 minute read
March 16, 2022 | Litigation Daily
Is a Gig as an AUSA Still the Likeliest Launchpad to Big Law Trial Practice?Proskauer Rose partner Bart Williams, who went 11 for 11 on trials as a federal prosecutor, is questioning the tried-and-true route to trial experience. (He has no questions about picking up practice tips from co-counsel though.)
By Ross Todd
5 minute read
March 15, 2022 | Litigation Daily
Kenneth Feinberg Says Court is Where the Action Is. The Settlement Funds He Tends to Oversee Are the 'Aberration'Arguably the biggest name in alternative dispute resolution says there's no substitute for doing things the old-fashioned way in the U.S.: "You hire your lawyer. I'll hire my lawyer. Judge and jury will decide."
By Ross Todd
4 minute read
March 14, 2022 | Litigation Daily
Drilling Down on Greenberg Traurig's Trial Boutique Within a Litigation DepartmentLori Cohen and William Michael Jr., the co-chairs of Greenberg's trial practice group, discuss the details of the 100-plus lawyer boutique-within-a-firm.
By Ross Todd
6 minute read
March 11, 2022 | Litigation Daily
Litigators of the Week: The Zuckerman Spaeder Duo Who Challenged the Use of 'Race-Norming' in the NFL Concussion SettlementThe federal judge overseeing the NFL concussion benefits process gave sign-off last week to a settlement that will eliminate the use of race-based norms, a major win for Black retirees who intervened in the case with counsel from Zuckerman Spaeder's Cy Smith and Aitan Goelman.
By Ross Todd
7 minute read
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