Ross Todd

July 13, 2021 | Litigation Daily

"Some of the greatest relationships I have with divisions at the company are with the divisions that have had the most litigation," says Phillips, the associate generate counsel of VEIC, a Vermont-based non-profit focused on energy efficiency. "How do we get people to understand how important this is without them going through the pain of having to prove it in discovery for example?"

By Ross Todd

13 minute read

July 12, 2021 | Litigation Daily

"For our litigation department, associates at all levels of seniority rotate through practice areas, building a broad base of experience, working with partners and clients on various kinds of matters and across industries, and developing the agility that we believe is crucial to our lawyers' ability to master new areas of the law throughout their career," says Orsini, who co-heads the firm's litigation department with Bornstein.

By Ross Todd

10 minute read

July 02, 2021 | Litigation Daily

Scott Llewellyn and Michael Birnbaum of Morrison & Foerster unmasked the short-seller behind an attack article posted on financial website Seeking Alpha targeting their client Farmland Partners Inc. They also recovered a multiple of the profits the short-seller made when the price of FPI stock dropped 39% on the day of publication.

By Ross Todd

8 minute read

July 02, 2021 | Litigation Daily

Highlights this week include U.S. Supreme Court wins by Kirkland & Ellis and Sidley Austin.

By Ross Todd

5 minute read

July 01, 2021 | Litigation Daily

"We have a sophisticated, experienced in-house team, and we expect our outside lawyers to work alongside us to fully evaluate the options presented by any given legal issue, and to keep us informed of developments, big and small, in real time."

By Ross Todd

9 minute read

June 30, 2021 | Litigation Daily

"I think practitioners will become more sophisticated in the way that they use what happened in one jurisdiction to give them more traction in another jurisdiction when there is an advantage," says Deborah Hensler of Stanford Law School who co-authored a new report about the VW litigation and the prospect of future cases like it.

By Ross Todd

12 minute read

June 29, 2021 | Litigation Daily

Lawyers at Am Law 200 firms upped their pro bono efforts year-over-year in 2020. There are signs of even greater demand for those services this year.

By Ross Todd

4 minute read

June 28, 2021 | Litigation Daily

"I just think that it's a myth—that many of us have now dispelled—that we're writing for some far more sophisticated audience that has to have a law degree to understand it," says Tenth Circuit Judge Robert Bacharach, who has a new book out on legal writing that draws lessons from the field of psycholinguistics.

By Ross Todd

8 minute read

June 25, 2021 | Litigation Daily

The Winston & Strawn co-chair represents college football players and men's and women's basketball players who this week scored a major, unanimous victory at the U.S. Supreme Court in an antitrust case against the NCAA.

By Ross Todd

7 minute read

June 25, 2021 | Litigation Daily

This week's runners-up are highlighted by a Kirkland & Ellis duo who have become LOTW regulars.

By Ross Todd

5 minute read