Our runners up for Litigator of the Week include Proskauer partner Howard Shapiro, who scored for Charles Schwab before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. The court held that an ERISA class action filed against the company is subject to individual arbitration of plaintiff's individual claims. In doing so, the Ninth Circuit overruled its prior precedent by holding that these types of ERISA class actions can be arbitrated.

Kenneth Nachbar of Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell and Michael Gottlieb of Willkie Farr & Gallagher won a precedent-setting ruling in the Delaware Chancery Court with international implications. The decision affirms the authority of Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó's government to appoint boards of directors for CITGO Petroleum Corporation entities.

Directors who were appointed by the authoritarian regime of Nicolas Maduro were rebuffed when they tried to obtain an order from the court that Maduro, rather than Guaidó—who has been recognized by the U.S. as the legitimate government of Venezuela—had the authority to name and control the U.S. CITGO entities.

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan had two notable wins, including one by associate Victor Noskov on behalf of the consumer creditors' committee in the Ditech Holding Corp. bankruptcy. Noskov convinced U.S. bankruptcy Judge James L. Garrity to deny the mortgage company's billion-dollar sale to two buyers because it violated consumer protection laws.

And Quinn Emanuel's Sascha Rand, Ellyde Thompson and Ellison Ward Merkel (plus Myrna Pérez of the Brennan Center) helped win a victory for voting rights in Indiana. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit upheld a preliminary injunction blocking an Indiana law designed to "cleanse" the state's voter rolls.