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Litigation Daily

Preparing a Positive Message About DeFi for Judges and Juries

Baker McKenzie's Bradford Newman says with U.S. courts acting as de facto regulators on issues relating to decentralized finance, or DeFi, defense lawyers need to gear their approach to telling the industry's story to judges and juries.
10 minute read

Litigation Daily

A Christian Case for Criminal Justice Reform

Matthew Martens, co-chair of the securities litigation and enforcement practice group of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, has a new book out in November seeking to "reclaim the biblical conception of justice as an act of love."
12 minute read

New York Law Journal

FTC's Shaoul Sussman Discusses Draft Merger Guidelines With Skadden

Skadden partners Kenneth Schwartz and Karen Lent interviewed Shaoul Sussman, the FTC's Associate Director for Litigation in the Bureau of Competition, to discuss the FTC's thinking behind the recently released draft merger guidelines.
18 minute read

The American Lawyer

Associates Say the Darndest Things: 2023 Edition

As part of our annual Midlevel Associate Survey, we asked more than 4,000 midlevel associates in Big Law to level with us about their firms. They didn't hold back.
5 minute read

Litigation Daily

What Makes a Successful Litigation Secondment Program?

McKinsey associate GC Veronica Ip and MoFo's Kate Driscoll discuss what each got out of the six-month spell that Driscoll covered for Ip while she was on parental leave.
12 minute read

Litigation Daily

How Ryan Dykal of Shook, Hardy & Bacon Weaves Storytelling Into IP Trials

"To get people on your side, you don't respond to what the other side is saying. You tell your own story," says Dykal, who handles both plaintiff- and defense-side intellectual property work.
9 minute read

Litigation Daily

'Fight Like Your Life Depended on It': Cooley's Kathleen Hartnett Reflects on a Decades-Long Relationship With a Pro Bono Client

"I think there is some lesson here for the skeptical at times lawyers to just really keep it up and not give up," said Hartnett of her client Nakia Roy, who at times in his decades-long appeals represented himself pro se.
6 minute read

Litigation Daily

Chewing on What It Means to Be a Trial Lawyer With Morrison & Foerster's James Brosnahan

"Justice at Trial," a memoir by the storied San Francisco trial lawyer is set for release next month. The Litigation Daily sat down with Brosnahan at his home in Berkeley, California to talk shop.
8 minute read

Daily Report Online

An Excursion Into the 'Weird and Wacky': Ga.'s Plaintiff Lawyers Share Their 'War Stories'

Pro tip: If you're suing a defendant for fraud, check if their criminal case had the same judge.
5 minute read

Litigation Daily

Talking Songwriting and Litigating With Patent Litigator and LYON$ Frontman Trey Lyons

George Lyons III, or "Trey," became an equity partner at Chicago IP firm McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff late last year. His country band LYON$ dropped its second album this spring.
6 minute read

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