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Litigators of the Week: US Soccer and MLS Fend Off Claims They Conspired to Scuttle Rival League’s Prospect

Federal jurors in Brooklyn found the North American Soccer League hadn’t proven its conspiracy case, handing a win to the United States Soccer Federation, represented by Christopher Yates and Larry Buterman of Latham & Watkins, and Major League Soccer, represented by Bradley Ruskin and Kevin Perra of Proskauer Rose.
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Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout-Outs

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett squared off with lawyers from the Federal Trade Commission in a seven-day bench trial over Tempur Sealy International Inc.’s $4 billion acquisition of Mattress Firm Inc.
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Best Practices

‘Listen, Listen, Listen’: Some Practice Tips From Judges in the Oakland Federal Courthouse

“If you’re filing a motion just because you can file it, it’s a waste of our time. It’s a waste of your time,” said U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers.
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Annual Self-Check: Testing For Bias On The Bench

A Southern judge opens up about a test he takes to help ensure he remains unbiased on the bench and the pivotal experience that motivated the annual tradition.
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Analysis

How the Court of Public Opinion Should Factor Into Litigation Strategy

Crisis management professionals at Sitrick and Company featured Matthew Schwartz, the newly minted chairman of Boies Schiller Flexner, in their debut podcast about the intersection of public relations and litigation.
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Conversation

An Eye on ‘De-Risking’: Chewing on Hot Topics in Litigation Funding With Jeffery Lula of GLS Capital

Lula, a principal at litigation funder GLS Capital in Chicago and former Kirkland & Ellis litigation partner, chats about what he’s watching for in 2025.
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Q&A

Litigators of the Week: A $630M Antitrust Settlement for Automotive Software Vendors—$140M More Than Alleged Overcharges

More than eight years ago, Michael Nemelka of Kellogg, Hansen, Todd, Figel & Frederick got a call from an automotive software company alleging CDK Global conspired with its main rival to eliminate competition. This week, on the eve of trial, Nemelka and partners Derek Ho and Dan Dorris helped a class of vendors reach a $630 million settlement with CDK.
6 minute read
Quick Takes

Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout-Outs

Runners-Up this week include litigators at Davis Wright Tremaine, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, Gupta Wessler, Latham & Watkins, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, Steptoe, Sullivan & Cromwell and Susman Godfrey.
7 minute read
Profile

The Spectacle of Rudy Giuliani Returns to the SDNY

A look-back at Rudy Giuliani’s Manhattan attempts to stave off collection of a $148 million defamation verdict.
11 minute read
Analysis

A Second Straight Year of Increased Securities Filings—With Perhaps More on the Horizon

Jerry Silk of Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann and Scott Musoff of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom discuss the latest annual report on securities class action filings from Cornerstone Research and the Stanford Law School Securities Class Action Clearinghouse.
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J. Brugh Lower of Gibbons has entered an appearance for industrial equipment supplier Devco Corporation in a pending trademark infringement lawsuit. The suit, accusing the defendant of selling knock-off Graco products, was filed Dec. 18 in New Jersey District Court by Rivkin Radler on behalf of Graco Inc. and Graco Minnesota. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Zahid N. Quraishi, is 3:24-cv-11294, Graco Inc. et al v. Devco Corporation.

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Rebecca Maller-Stein and Kent A. Yalowitz of Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer have entered their appearances for Hanaco Venture Capital and its executives, Lior Prosor and David Frankel, in a pending securities lawsuit. The action, filed on Dec. 24 in New York Southern District Court by Zell, Aron & Co. on behalf of Goldeneye Advisors, accuses the defendants of negligently and fraudulently managing the plaintiff's $1 million investment. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Vernon S. Broderick, is 1:24-cv-09918, Goldeneye Advisors, LLC v. Hanaco Venture Capital, Ltd. et al.

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Attorneys from A&O Shearman has stepped in as defense counsel for Toronto-Dominion Bank and other defendants in a pending securities class action. The suit, filed Dec. 11 in New York Southern District Court by Bleichmar Fonti & Auld, accuses the defendants of concealing the bank's 'pervasive' deficiencies in regards to its compliance with the Bank Secrecy Act and the quality of its anti-money laundering controls. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian, is 1:24-cv-09445, Gonzalez v. The Toronto-Dominion Bank et al.

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Wilfred P. Coronato and Daniel M. Schwartz of McCarter & English have stepped in as defense counsel to Electrolux Home Products Inc. in a pending product liability lawsuit. The court action, filed Nov. 26 in New York Eastern District Court by Poulos Lopiccolo PC and Nagel Rice LLP on behalf of David Stern, alleges that the defendant's refrigerators’ drawers and shelving repeatedly break and fall apart within months after purchase. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Joan M. Azrack, is 2:24-cv-08204, Stern v. Electrolux Home Products, Inc.

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