Ross Todd

March 18, 2021 | Litigation Daily

Everybody knows that breakups can be messy. But thankfully few venture into the copyright realm.

By Ross Todd

3 minute read

March 17, 2021 | Litigation Daily

The Lit Daily checks in with four litigators whose predictions from a year ago about the types of litigation coming out of the pandemic have proven prescient, even if there's been less of it than they expected.

By Ross Todd

6 minute read

March 16, 2021 | Litigation Daily

On what would have been Ruth Bader Ginsburg's 88th birthday, Justice Stephen Breyer delivered remarks to open a lecture series celebrating his late colleague at the National Judicial College. Meanwhile, a Colorado professor took to The New York Times opinion pages Monday to call on Breyer to retire immediately.

By Ross Todd

4 minute read

March 15, 2021 | Litigation Daily

Liu and her colleagues recently released a white paper analyzing why the percentage of securities class actions targeting issuers based outside the U.S. jumped from 15% in 2019 to just over 27% last year even though the total number of securities suits was down.

By Ross Todd

4 minute read

March 12, 2021 | Litigation Daily

Benjamin Marks, who heads the intellectual property & media practice at Weil, Gotshal & Manges, convinced the Second Circuit to uphold his summary judgment win for Getty Images in a case where the company was facing potential statutory damages of $3 billion.

By Ross Todd

7 minute read

March 12, 2021 | Litigation Daily

Quinn lands up as runner-up this week for scoring an early win in the battle over whether XRP, the cryptocurrency backed by Ripple Labs, is a security.

By Ross Todd

3 minute read

March 11, 2021 | Litigation Daily

The ugly allegations are flying back and forth in dueling lawsuits between the founding partners of Roche Cyrulnik Freedman, a Boies Schiller Flexner spinoff. Litigators, it seems, spawn more than their fair share of litigious breakups.

By Ross Todd

5 minute read

March 10, 2021 | Litigation Daily

Winters, who is in the process of retiring from Sidley Austin to deal with a painful nerve disease in his feet, said a lightbulb went off for him when a friend asked if he would refer a client to himself knowing what he knows about his condition.

By Ross Todd

8 minute read

March 09, 2021 | Litigation Daily

"Firms have to allow clients to get to know the associates and the young lawyers, not just when it comes time to do the arguments, but to be part of trial team calls, to be part of the pitch that brings in the case," says Susman Godfrey's Beatrice Franklin.

By Ross Todd

5 minute read

March 08, 2021 | Litigation Daily

"Our best client relationships are those where we are working with multiple teams within the client's legal and business departments," says Hopson. "We are also honest with our clients in terms of what we can and, sometimes more importantly, what we can't do. Clients appreciate that honesty."

By Ross Todd

11 minute read