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Analysis

Shareholder Democracy? The Chatter Elon Musk’s Tesla Pay Case Is Spurring Between Lawyers and Clients

Musk continues to fight the Delaware Court of Chancery’s decision to overturn his compensation plan at Tesla, appealing two decisions from the court to the Delaware Supreme Court last week. Since December, there’s been growing concern among investors about how the Delaware courts weigh issues around shareholder democracy.
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Analysis

In-House Lawyers Are Focused on Employment and Cybersecurity Disputes, But Looking Out for Conflict Over AI

The 20th annual litigation trends survey by Norton Rose Fulbright also found that general counsel and in-house litigators have a growing concern about so-called “nuclear verdicts.”
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Practical In-House Insights To Activate AI

Join the webcast, to gain practical, actionable insights on how corporate counsel are integrating AI–including generative AI–to manage complex tasks, analyze large datasets, and enhance strategic decision-making.
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Conversation

While Antitrust Enforcement Might Have Been Hot in 2024, Cartel Fines Were Not

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett released a year-over-year analysis of cartel fines in select jurisdictions across the globe as part of their 2025 Global Cartel Forecast released yesterday.
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Analysis

2024 Marked Growth On Top of Growth for Law Firm Litigation Practices. Is a Cooldown in the Offing for 2025?

According to data released by Thomson Reuters last week, litigation demand grew 3.3% in 2024 after seeing 2.8% growth in 2023.
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Q&A

Litigators of the Week: A Knockout Blow to Latest FCC Net Neutrality Rules After ‘Loper Bright’

Jeffrey Wall and Morgan Ratner of Sullivan & Cromwell took the lead for petitioners challenging the Biden administration’s key tech policy at the Sixth Circuit.
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Quick Takes

Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout-Outs

Lawyers from Haynes Boone, King & Spalding, Legal Aid at Work and the Impact Fund reached a settlement with the U.S. Department of Defense that will allow LGBTQ+ veterans discharged before the end of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy to remove discriminatory indicators from their military records and potentially upgrade their discharge statuses.
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Q&A

Litigators of the (Past) Week: Defending Against a $290M Claim and Scoring a $116M Win in Drug Patent Fight

A trial team led by Latham’s Mike Morin and David Frazier and Finnegan’s William (Bill) Raich helped Sarepta Therapeutics come out victorious as the counter-claimant in a patent trial concerning treatment for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, a degenerative muscular disorder.
10 minute read
Quick Takes

Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout-Outs

Runners-up this week include litigators at Wachtell, Davis Polk and Paul Weiss.
6 minute read
Analysis

Big Company Insiders See Technology-Related Disputes Teed Up for 2025

Concerns over cybersecurity, data privacy and artificial intelligence abound in Baker McKenzie's annual survey of 600 senior legal and risk professionals from companies with more than $500 million in revenue.
5 minute read
Analysis

Experts Weigh In On the 2025 Litigation Outlook

Back before the holidays, we checked in with a handful of Big Law litigation leaders to hear what they’re looking out for in 2025. Here are the highlights.
7 minute read
Q&A

Litigation Leaders: Jason Leckerman of Ballard Spahr on Growing the Department by a Third Via Merger with Lane Powell

“We have litigators in all of our offices and our practice is national, so we want to make sure our new colleagues in the Pacific Northwest and our legacy Ballard colleagues are involving legal talent across offices in their matters and contribute to matters outside their respective regions.”
10 minute read
Quick Takes

Let’s Hear It One Last Time!: One More Bow for 2024’s Litigators of the Week

Quinn Emanuel’s two-year reign atop the Litigator of the Week league tables comes to an end with a new but familiar name amassing the most wins this year.
16 minute read
Quick Takes

What We Heard From Litigation Leaders in 2024

Here's one last visit with the 18 leaders of Big Law litigation practices and elite boutiques we connected with this year as part of our Litigation Leaders Q&A series.
15 minute read
Q&A

Litigation Leaders: Greenspoon Marder’s Beth-Ann Krimsky on What Makes Her Team ‘Prepared, Compassionate and Wicked Smart’

“The value of coming to a Greenspoon Marder lawyer is our attorneys handle cases from beginning to end and actually do go to trial.”
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Q&A

Litigators of the Week: After a 74-Day Trial, Shook Fends Off Claims From Artist’s Heirs Against UMB Bank

Lawyers for Thomas Hart Benton’s heirs were seeking hundreds of millions of dollars based on claims UMB Bank mismanaged the family trust for the artist at the forefront of the Regionalist movement and lost more than 100 of his works. A judge in Kansas City awarded just $35,000 for five works unaccounted for by the bank, represented at trial by Todd Ruskamp, Patrick Kenney and Russell Shankland of Shook, Hardy & Bacon.
10 minute read
Quick Takes

Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout-Outs

Those taking home Runners-Up honors this week include litigators at Debevoise, Kirkland, Patterson Belknap, Stris & Maher, Weil and Winston & Strawn.
7 minute read
News

An ‘Indiana Jones Moment’: Mayer Brown’s John Nadolenco and Kelly Kramer on the 10-Year Legal Saga of the Bahia Emerald

Mayer Brown’s Kramer said that the case shows that countries can coordinate on returning stolen property, but the process is “long and slow.”
6 minute read
Best Practices

‘It's Your Funeral’: Avoiding Doing Damage to Your Client’s Case With Uncivil Behavior

Here are some thoughts on professionalism, ethics and civility in the courtroom from Judge Jay Quam in Minnesota, Judge Margaret Schreiber in Florida and Retired Justice William Bedsworth in California.
5 minute read
Profile

Why the Founders of IP Boutique Fisch Sigler Are Stepping Away From the Law and Starting an AI Venture

Alan Fisch and Bill Sigler announced last month that Dec. 31 will be Fisch Sigler’s last day of operation. They’re launching a new company aimed at applying artificial intelligence to agriculture.
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