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Litigation Leaders: Mark Jones of Nelson Mullins on Helping Clients Assemble ‘Dream Teams’

“We are often selected as members of virtual trial teams with other national firms not only for our substantive experience and talent but also because of our ability to work collaboratively with other firms, which is always in the clients’ interest.”
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Litigators of the Week: After Two Big Wins for Plaintiffs, a Defense Verdict for Infant Formula Makers

Juries hit Mead Johnson and Abbott Laboratories with verdicts of $60 million and $495 million respectively earlier this year in cases linking an intestinal disease with formula given to premature babies in hospitals. Covington's Phyllis Jones and Kirkland's Jim Hurst led teams that secured a defense verdict for the companies in Missouri state court last week.
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Quick Takes

Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout-Outs

A trial team at Quinn Emanuel secured a $110 million antitrust verdict for client Pacific Steel Group in litigation against Commercial Metals Company.
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Analysis

A Look Back at 'Goldman Sachs': How Price Impact Is Changing Securities Class Actions

"Courts have started to apply the 'Goldman' framework in the context of class certification," said Sullivan & Cromwell co-chair Robert Giuffra, who represented the bank in the case the Second Circuit decided a little more than a year ago. "And so it's becoming the new thing in securities litigation, at least in the context of event-driven litigation."
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Litigation Leaders: Laura Hoey of Ropes & Gray on Bringing an Industry Focus to Litigation Matters

"Our deep industry expertise across private equity, health care and life sciences and asset management is what sets us apart as a firm and provides us with the expertise to counsel clients on a diverse range of litigation and enforcement matters."
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Webcast

Climate Disputes, International Arbitration, and State Court Limitations for Global Issues

Join a distinguished panel of experts as they discuss the latest global rulings, arbitration and mediation approaches, and strategies to address inconsistencies in court outcomes in climate-related cases.
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Quick Takes

Some Election Day Shout-Outs to Litigators Working Pro Bono on Voting Rights

A special batch of shout-outs to lawyers dedicating pro bono hours to voting rights in the run-up to Election Day.
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Analysis

Beyond Borders: Baker McKenzie Attorneys Stress the Need for a Global Outlook Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Matters

Baker McKenzie's Vinod Bange, Brian Hengesbaugh and Eva-Maria Strobel discuss the challenges of advising global clients on the patchwork of parallel regulations covering cybersecurity and data privacy.
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Q&A

Litigators of the Week: An Early Knockout Win in the Decongestant MDL

After Andrew Soukup of Covington & Burling and Jay Lefkowitz of Kirkland & Ellis argued the motion to dismiss for the defendants, a federal judge in Brooklyn found state law claims concerning the effectiveness of decongestants were preempted by federal law and that the plaintiffs lacked standing to pursue their RICO claims.
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Quick Takes

Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout-Outs

Defense lawyers at Cooley helped the former director of engineering at FTX avoid prison time after testifying in the trial of Sam Bankman-Fried.
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Best Practices

A Case Study in How Susman Gets Associates Experience in BIG Trials

Susman Godfrey partner Jacob Buchdahl and associate Stephanie Spies discuss Spies' role handling three witnesses—including cross-examining a key fact witness–during an 11-day bench trial in August that yielded a $1.6 billion win for their client BML Properties.
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Profile

Many Americans Don't Trust the Supreme Court This Election; David Boies Isn't One of Them

"We are near the point where our divisions are so intense that both sides are beginning to see their opponents not only as wrong, but as dangers," Boies said.
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Conversation

Talking Shop About Faegre Drinker's New Arizona Design Lab with Trial Partner David 'DJ' Gross

Gross, the author of "Design Thinking and Visual Advocacy for Lawyers" and an unabashed design enthusiast, gave Litigation Daily a FaceTime tour of the firm's new space where he's the lone lawyer.
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Podcast

Colorado's Impact on AI

In episode five of this podcast series, Privacy Partner Camila Tobón and Privacy Associate Josh Hansen discuss the Colorado AI Act and its potential impact on other states and a federal AI Act.
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Analysis

Everytown Law Publishes Guide for Lawyers Bringing Civil Litigation Against the Gun Industry

The gun safety advocacy group Everytown Law has grown to a team of 32, including 26 litigators. Today, they're publishing a 110-page manual aimed at helping others bring civil cases on behalf of gun violence survivors and victims targeting reckless and illegal conduct by firearm industry players.
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Q&A

Litigators of the Week: A $604.9M Trade Secrets Verdict With a Big Assist From a Juror Question

Michael Ng and Daniel Zaheer of Kobre & Kim represented renewable fuels company Propel against Phillips 66 Co. alongside colleagues in a month-long trial in California state court. Ng argued at closings that a juror question elicited a "confession" from a Phillips executive admitting to liability and trade secret misappropriation.
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Quick Takes

Another Stellar Crop of Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout-Outs

A team at Susman Godfrey secured a $1.6 billion win for client BML Properties in a dispute with China Construction America Inc. over delays at the Baha Mar resort casino in the Bahamas.
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Analysis

What Social Media Can Tell You About Your Jury

"It's that outpouring of emotion that I am particularly interested in finding, because those people tend to be the most strident in deliberations and frequently for the plaintiff," Jill Leibold, a senior jury consulting adviser with IMS Legal Strategies, said.
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Analysis

How Kramer Levin's Patent Trial Team Approaches Teaching Tech to Juries

Paul Andre, Liza Kobialka and James Hannah of Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel, who have won three trials in the past 10 months, say trying to oversimplify technology for juries is a mistake.
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Q&A

How Do You Get Experience Leading an MDL Without Experience Leading an MDL?

Litigation Daily explores the chicken/egg question of how plaintiffs lawyers secure leadership appointments in multidistrict litigation with three Seeger Weiss lawyers: Parvin Aminolroaya, Jennifer Scullion and Shauna Itri.
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Webcast

Judicial Face-Off: Navigating the Ethical and Efficient Use of AI in Legal Practice [CLE Pending]

Join the webcast and learn how to harness the potential of AI in your legal practice while ensuring that you remain compliant and protect your clients' confidentiality.
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Q&A

Litigation Leaders: Quinn Emanuel's Michael Carlinsky on Training Associates to Think and Act Like Trial Lawyers

"Unlike full-service firms where a young associate has the option of trying different practices, junior lawyers (and senior lawyers) come to Quinn because they want to be the very best litigators—and want to learn from the best."
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Q&A

Litigators of the Week: A Win for Homeless Veterans On the VA's West LA Campus

After a month-long bench trial earlier this year, Roman Silberfeld and Tommy Du of Robins Kaplan and Mark Rosenbaum of Public Counsel secured a ruling voiding the Veterans Administration's leases of portions of the campus to private entities and requiring the construction of new housing for class members.
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Quick Takes

Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout-Outs

Runners-up this week include litigation teams at Wilmer and Kirkland.
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Conversation

Leveling the Playing Field: Insights From Celebrated Women Legal Leaders

Several of the recent Women, Influence, and Power in Law Conference honorees offered thoughts about addressing gender disparities in the legal industry.
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Analysis

A Couple of Early Suggestions From ABOTA's 'A More Perfect Jury' Project

In 2022, the American Board of Trial Advocates Foundation launched a multi-year study in partnership with law schools and the National Center for State Courts aimed at improving the jury selection process. Study participants at UC Law San Francisco discussed their preliminary findings yesterday.
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Best Practices

Trial Tips for a Post-Pandemic World: Persuading the Modern Jury

In the post-pandemic era, two new types of juror behaviors have emerged that every attorney should be aware of: Conspiracism and Safetyism.
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Q&A

Litigators of the Week: Jeffrey Kessler and Steve Berman Reach a Settlement With the NCAA that Reshapes College Sports

The antitrust stars at Winston & Strawn and Hagens Berman got preliminary approval of a settlement that will pay more than $2.75 billion in back damages to former college athletes and allow schools to share revenue with current players through pools of up to about $21.5 million in the first year of the deal.
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Quick Takes

Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout-Outs

Runners-up this week include litigators from Sullivan & Cromwell, MoloLamken and Wilkinson Stekloff.
6 minute read
Commentary

A Reporter and a Mayor: Behind the Scenes During the Eric Adams Indictment News Cycle

One reporter's peek inside the 48 hours surrounding the indictment of New York City Mayor Eric Adams on charges including wire fraud, solicitation of contributions from foreign nationals and bribery.
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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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Crown Castle International, a Pennsylvania company providing shared communications infrastructure, has turned to Luke D. Wolf of Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani to fend off a pending breach-of-contract lawsuit. The court action, filed Nov. 25 in Michigan Eastern District Court by Hooper Hathaway PC on behalf of The Town Residences LLC, accuses Crown Castle of failing to transfer approximately $30,000 in utility payments from T-Mobile in breach of a roof-top lease and assignment agreement. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Susan K. Declercq, is 2:24-cv-13131, The Town Residences LLC v. T-Mobile US, Inc. 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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