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 20, 2021 | Litigation Daily
Another Stacked Lineup of Litigation of the Week Runners-Up and Shout OutsOur first runners up this week are Sam Baxter of McKool Smith and Jason Sheasby of Irell & Manella, who won Litigator of the Week honors last year for landing a $506 million damages verdict for PanOptis in patent litigation against Apple. In a damages retrial. they won $300 million.
By Ross Todd
5 minute read
August 20, 2021 | Litigation Daily
Litigators of the Week: The Gibson Dunn Duo Who Scored an Extraordinary SCOTUS Win for New York LandlordsRandy Mastro and Akiva Shapiro built on their prior U.S. Supreme Court win for the Diocese of Brooklyn striking down New York's capacity restrictions on religious services to secure another pandemic-related writ of injunction from the court for landlords challenging the state's eviction moratorium.
By Ross Todd
12 minute read
August 19, 2021 | Litigation Daily
Rubbish In, Rubbish Out: Some Cautionary Thoughts on AI and Judging"Judges typically act as very independent individuals, but in relation to these significant changes that technology will have on the system into the future, they need to be acting as a cohesive group rather than just in an individualistic manner," says Dean Tania Sourdin of the University of Newcastle School of Law in Australia.
By Ross Todd
5 minute read
August 18, 2021 | Litigation Daily
If Your Associates Aren't Getting Argument Experience Now, When Will They?Some barriers to getting junior lawyers stand-up court experience have dissipated during remote practice.
By Ross Todd
6 minute read
August 17, 2021 | Litigation Daily
Dave Saunders of Juniper Networks Is Willing to Pay Outside Counsel More in Some Cases to Fight Than It Might Cost to Settle. Here's Why."On the commercial side, we're not going to pay someone if we didn't do anything wrong," says Saunders, the director of litigation at Juniper Networks, a multinational computer networking company based in Sunnyvale, California.
By Ross Todd
11 minute read
August 16, 2021 | Litigation Daily
Finnegan Taps Its Federal Circuit Chops for Military Vets in Disability CasesFinnegan's Charles Collins-Chase recently won two Federal Circuit appeals for pro bono veteran clients, including a decision finding the VA shouldn't be granted deference when it puts forward a position for the first time in litigation.
By Ross Todd
4 minute read
August 13, 2021 | Litigation Daily
Litigators of the Week: Quinn Emanuel Clears the Decks for Norwegian Cruise Line to Ask for COVID Vaccination Docs in FloridaA Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan team led by Derek Shaffer, Olga Vieira and John O'Sullivan this week convinced a federal judge in Miami to grant an injunction blocking a Florida law barring the cruise line from requiring passengers to show proof of Covid-19 vaccination.
By Ross Todd
9 minute read
August 13, 2021 | Litigation Daily
Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout OutsOur first runner-up this week is a joint team from the ACLU of Illinois, King & Spalding and Kirkland & Ellis that secured a victory last week on behalf of a certified class of all transgender individuals incarcerated by the Illinois Department of Corrections.
By Ross Todd
7 minute read
August 12, 2021 | Litigation Daily
Regulatory Compliance Teams Are Linking Up With Their Sometimes-Less-Compliant Colleagues in LitigationRelationships between in-house compliance teams and their litigation colleagues have grown tighter, particularly during the pandemic.
By Ross Todd
5 minute read
August 11, 2021 | Litigation Daily
Caroline Teichner Describes How Litigators at Kraft Heinz Aim to Be the 'Most Reasonable People in the Room'"When you're in private practice, you often are thinking purely from a legal strategy standpoint about what arguments are going to win," said Teichner, litigation counsel at the world's fifth-largest food and beverage company. "When you're in-house you're thinking: 'Is this dispute important to the business?'"
By Ross Todd
10 minute read
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