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Voir Dire for Beginners: 2 Southwestern Law Alums Give Students an Intro to Jury Selection

Daniel Kramer of Kramer Trial Lawyers and Robert Glassman of Panish | Shea | Boyle | Ravipudi gave students at their alma mater an experiential introduction to picking a jury during the school's Spring intersession.
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Best Practices

The Most Common Mistake Judge Alsup Sees At Trial and How to Fix It

Senior U.S. District Judge William Alsup dug into what he calls "negative-positive ambiguity" during a presentation on common trial mistakes last week at the San Francisco federal courthouse.
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Litigators of the Week: DOJ Can't Reopen a Previously-Settled Antitrust Case Against the National Association of Realtors

Bill Burck and Mike Bonanno of Quinn Emanuel and Ethan Glass of Cooley helped NAR get a ruling holding the government to the terms of a settlement agreement reached during the Trump administration, that it pulled out of under the Biden Administration.
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Quick Takes

Another Healthy Dose of Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout Outs

Runners up this week include litigators from Quinn Emanuel, DiCello Levitt and Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner.
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Commentary

When the Tide Goes Out

With large, elite law firms drawing a diminishing amount of their revenue from litigation, how can they continue to expect to be the destination for bet-the-company cases?
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Best Practices

3 Types of Difficult Witnesses and How to Deal With Them on Cross

Angela Brooks and Kate Sandlin, criminal defense lawyers in Los Angeles and Atlanta respectively, walk through some strategies for handling the cross-examination of less-than-cooperative witnesses.
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Analysis

Musk Gets a Question In From the Witness Stand in 'Funding Secured' Securities Trial

In a securities case accusing Musk of lying about securing funds to take Tesla private, he asked a lawyer for the plaintiffs about efforts to subpoena a Saudi official who might be able to answer questions about the deal.
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Q&A

Litigation Leaders: Goulston & Storrs Litigation Co-Chair Jennifer Furey On What It Means to Be 'Intensely Practical'

"Oftentimes, clients are not looking to vanquish an opponent, especially if that opponent is a person or entity the client is likely to encounter again out of business necessity, so we look for creative, 'win-win' solutions whenever possible," she said.
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Litigator of the Week: Standing Strong for Under Armour's Trademarks Without Going Overboard Against Upstart Armorina

Finnegan's Douglas "Chip" Rettew helped client Under Armour avoid coming off like a Goliath by asking for just $1 in damages in an infringement trial involving the company's Armour-based trademark.
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Quick Takes

Another Chock-Full Bunch of Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout Outs

Robert Maldonado and his team at Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks get runners-up honors for successfully defending fashion designer Thom Browne at trial against trademark claims from sportswear giant Adidas.
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Analysis

How a Luxury Designer Made the Case 'Adidas Does Not Own Stripes'

A trial team led by Robert Maldonado of Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks successfully defended luxury designer Thom Browne from claims that his four-stripe designs infringed Adidas' three-stripe trademark.
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Analysis

While Employment Suits and Regulatory Actions Abound, In-House Lawyers See Cyber and ESG As Looming Threats

Norton Rose Fulbright's survey of more than 430 general counsel and in-house litigation leaders based in the U.S. and Canada found that litigation budgets are going up, but an increasing portion of that spending is going to personnel and other in-house expenses.
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Profile

How Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar Honed Her Personal Argument Style

In conversation with Dean Erwin Chemerinsky of UC Berkeley School of Law, Prelogar discussed soaking up every Supreme Court argument during the two years she clerked for Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Elena Kagan.
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Litigators of the Week: Latham Beats Back Antitrust Challenge for Swimming's International Governing Body

Latham & Watkins partners Chris Yates and Aaron Chiu won summary judgment for the organization formerly known as Fédération Internationale de Natation, or FINA, on claims it conspired with national federations to boycott an upstart professional swimming league.
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Quick Takes

Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout Outs

First runners-up honors this week goes to a team at Williams & Connolly that got an appellate win for GlaxoSmithKline upholding a ruling knocking out multidistrict litigation.
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Analysis

Defying Gravity? Boutiques and Midsize Litigation Practices Avoid Demand Declines Seen Across the Legal Industry

Demand for legal services contracted by 0.1% last year across all practices, according to a new study from Georgetown University and Thomson Reuters reports. Although demand for litigation services from Am Law 100 firms was off by 2% year over year, it was up at midsize firms by 1%.
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Analysis

'The Big Two': Big Company Legal and Risk Pros Continue to See Litigation Threats in Cybersecurity and ESG

Baker McKenzie labeled cybersecurity/data and ESG "the big two" given how often they were cited by the 600 in-house legal and risk professionals the firm reached out to as part of its sixth annual disputes survey.
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Analysis

What Drove the 75% Jump in Global Settlements in Investor Lawsuits in 2022? And Will the Wave of Mega-Settlements Continue?

According to ISS Securities Class Action Services, 10 securities-related class actions settled for between $100 million and $1 billion in the U.S. last year. That more than doubled the number from 2021.
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Analysis

A Working Parent's Case for Zoom Trials

"Using Zoom even as we come out of the pandemic is really a game changer for working parents," says Gordon & Rees Bay Area managing partner Marie Holvick.
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Q&A

Litigators of the Week: In Case of 'Phantom Damages,' Kirkland Scores a Come-From-Behind Win for TransUnion

Mark Premo-Hopkins and Britt Cramer of Kirkland & Ellis chipped away at claims from one of TransUnion's former software partners even as Cramer was being treated for cancer.
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Quick Takes

Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout Outs

Defense lawyers at Libby Hoopes Brooks & Mulvey and Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan won acquittals for the former fencing coach of Harvard and a parent accused of bribing him to get his sons recruited.
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Analysis

Litigators Weigh In With What to Watch for in 2023

Where I see uncertainty, you see fertile ground for disputes.
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Best Practices

This Gibson Dunn Team Shows You Can Get Associates Reps While Winning

"You have to be in the cage swinging, getting pitches. You don't get better if you're not," says partner Collin Cox who led a team of three associates to a $15 million trial victory in Dallas federal court.
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Litigation Leaders: Davis Polk's Jim Rouhandeh on Recruiting and Training Top-Flight Associates—"the Lifeblood of the Firm"

"I was thinking at a recent partners meeting that one day all of us will be retired, replaced by our current and future associates," says Rouhandeh, the head of the firm's litigation department. "It is our job to prepare them for that day, in order to ensure and enhance the legacy of this great firm."
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Litigators of the Week: In Pursuit of Funds from Kazakhstan Bank Collapse, Boies Schiller Team Gets $100M Verdict

Last week, jurors in Manhattan federal court routed a significant sliver of billions in absconded funds back to BTA Bank thanks to the trial work of Matthew Schwartz, John Zach and Craig Wenner of Boies Schiller Flexner.
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Quick Takes

A Veritable Blizzard of Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout Outs

First up, a Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher team led by Collin Cox gets a runner-up spot this week for bringing home a $15 million jury verdict for client…
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Curtain Call: One Last Look at 2022's Litigators of the Week

With one more LOTW set to land tomorrow, the race to see which firm will land the most winners this year is already wrapped up.
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Q&A

Litigation Leaders: Kramer Levin's Barry Berke on Being 'Trial Lawyers and Not Just Litigators'

"That trial lawyer approach has helped us achieve great success for our clients not only for those cases we do try, but also for those cases we get dismissed early, where we achieve a favorable settlement, or where we avoid having a case brought in the first instance," Berke says.
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Litigators of the Week: Navigating a Family Food Fight Over the World's Largest Mozzarella Maker

Cliff Stricklin of King & Spalding and Mike Hofmann of Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner helped defuse the emotional elements of a business lawsuit that doubled as a family dispute involving the world's largest mozzarella maker.
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Quick Takes

A Cavalcade of Worthy Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout Outs

Our first runners-up his week are litigators at Quinn Emanuel who scored key defense wins in a pair of proposed privacy class actions brought on behalf of users of Google's Chrome browser.
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Profile

A Whole Lotta Hustle, a Boost From Partners and Client Buy-In: A Latham Associate's Recipe for Landing 11 Appellate Arguments

Samir Deger-Sen came to Latham as a collegiate debate world champion and three-time federal clerk. But even he had to work to find appellate argument opportunities.
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Analysis

Why Litigators Are Susceptible to the Effects of Secondary Trauma and What to Do About It

"As an attorney, working with clients who are struggling with difficult issues impacts us," says Angela Downes, a professor at UNT Dallas College of Law.
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Analysis

Learning to Listen and When to Sit Down: Takeaways from the Lit Daily's 'Best I've Ever Seen' Series

We thought it would be fun to talk to litigators who've mastered some small slice of winning cases. A dozen columns in, it has been!
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VMWare's Brooks Beard Supplements a 'Small But Mighty' Litigation Group By Deputizing Others on the Legal Team

"It's a fantastic model that allows us to run lean and mean as a litigation team while getting an opportunity to work with the extremely talented attorneys and legal professionals we have spread across the full legal team," Beard said.
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Litigators of the Week: Trump Org Prosecutors Secure Across-the-Board Guilty Verdict in Tax Fraud Trial

Susan Hoffinger, Joshua Steinglass and their colleagues at the Manhattan district attorney's office secured a guilty verdict on all 17 counts in the tax fraud trial against two of former President Donald Trump's business entities.
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Quick Takes

Another Impressive Batch of Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout Outs

This week's runners-up are Barry Berke, Dani James and their team at Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel got a ruling knocking out the bribery charges facing former New York Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin.
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Commentary

What the Litigation Daily Is Watching Out for in 2023

What will the circuit courts have to say about the sudden surge of mass tort-related bankruptcies? Will midsize firms grab a bigger piece of the litigation pie? And what do the current economic headwinds portend for litigators?
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Analysis

A Clerk Hiring Conundrum

A new study based on in-depth interviews with 50 federal appeals court judges found they often fail to tap their colleagues for tips on how they've broadened their own pool of clerkship candidates.
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Profile

Four Cases. Three Arguments. Two Circuits. One Week.

Theane Evangelis of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher discusses what it was like handling three oral arguments in four cases for gig economy clients on back-to-back days in two separate circuit courts last month.
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Analysis

Taking a Data-Centric Approach to Managing Tort Claims

Weinberg Wheeler Hudgins Gunn & Dial partners Johnny Friedman and Shane O'Neill have been moonlighting for the past two years as co-founders of DataGavel, a tech platform designed to bring data aggregation and deep collaboration to the torts practice.
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Q&A

Litigators of the Week: A Defense Win for the NCAA in the First Concussion Suit to Go to Trial

A trial team led by Will Stute, William Molinski and David Fuad of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe won the first jury trial seeking to hold the NCAA liable for concussion-related injuries from playing college football.
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Quick Takes

Litigator of the Week Runner-Up and Shout Outs

The runner-up spot this week goes to a team at Paul Weiss that got a big appellate reversal for data analytics company Mu Sigma knocking out a long-running lawsuit brought by Walworth Investments.
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Best Practices

Credibility: Hard to Get for Litigators. Easy to Lose.

Third Circuit Judge L. Felipe Restrepo suggests that lawyers concede as much as they possibly can without harming their client's position. "It really helps judges and it helps juries understand that you're a serious person and you're there to only dispute what really matters."
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What It Takes For a Litigator to Lead a Local Big Firm Office

Local leaders have to have an appetite for the sorts of administrative and managerial work that lots of lawyers try to avoid.
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Quick Takes

An Early-Week Edition of Litigator of the Week Shout Outs

With a two-week cycle of Litigator of the Week landing on Friday, let's give this bonus batch of shout-out-worthy litigation results a moment to shine.
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Q&A

Litigation Leaders: W. Brantley Phillips Jr. of Bass, Berry & Sims On the Measure of Success

"What counts as 'success' can vary widely from case-to-case depending on the business goal," said Phillips, who is based in Nashville. "Our team understands that, and we measure our success based on how well we are able to assist our clients in reaching their goals."
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Q&A

Litigators of the Week: The Shareholders' Team Behind the Record $1B Cash Settlement with Dell

Three weeks before a scheduled trial in Delaware's Court of Chancery, Silpa Maruri of Quinn Emanuel, Ned Weinberger of Labaton Sucharow, and Chad Johnson of Robbins Geller hammered out a settlement for Dell minority shareholders who claim they were shortchanged in a 2018 stock conversion deal.
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Quick Takes

This Week's Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout Outs

Our runners-up at Irell & Manella brought home a $948.8 million damages verdict for VLSI Technology LLC in its third West Texas patent trial showdown over computer processing technology with Intel Corp.
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Commentary

The Legal Profession Presents Some Unique Challenges to Mental Health. Stigma Need Not Be One of Them.

"We can all help overcome this stigma by acknowledging that this distress to one's mental health is a common human condition, requiring simply compassion, patience, and heartfelt support," said Thomas Leff, a trial lawyer based in Wilmington, Delaware, during a web discussion sponsored by ABOTA.
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Analysis

Lessons on Law Firm Management from Leaders Who Litigate

Here's what litigators who hold firmwide leadership positions say about what it takes to inspire confidence from colleagues and get things done.
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Best Practices

'It's a Fun Job, Right?': Susman Godfrey's Jacob Buchdahl on Celebrating Team Success

The Susman partner says an important part of leadership at trial is "recognizing just how dependent you are on every single member of the team."
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Q&A

Litigators of the Week: Acquittals in the 'Espionage Lite' Trial of Tom Barrack and Protégé

Michael Schachter and Randall Jackson of Willkie Farr & Gallagher defended Colony Capital founder and former Trump advisor Tom Barrack from charges he conspired to act as an illegal agent of the United Arab Emirates, with Abbe Lowell of Winston & Strawn representing his twenty-something aide-de-camp codefendant, Matthew Grimes.
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Quick Takes

Another Jam-Packed Edition of Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout Outs

Runners-up this week include litigators from Goodwin Procter, Jenner & Block, and Munger Tolles.
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Conversation

How Opioid Litigation Is Creating 'a New Breed' of Plaintiffs Lawyer

"It's going to create a very formidable plaintiffs bar in our country going forward given the level of expertise provided to a new group of younger lawyers," says Jayne Conroy of Simmons Hanly Conroy, one of the three co-leads of the plaintiffs' executive committee in the National Prescription Opiate Litigation MDL.
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Conversation

Plaintiffs Counsel Jayne Conroy: Trials Have Been 'Front and Center' in Driving Opioid Settlements

"The trial is the place where—win or lose—the information gets out to the public and people can start to look at it and even build on it for the next case that comes around," says Conroy, one of the three co-leads of the plaintiffs' executive committee in the National Prescription Opiate Litigation MDL.
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Analysis

What's the Litigation Outlook as Legal Industry Faces an Economic 'Inflection Point'?

Recent industry surveys from Thomson Reuters and Berkeley Research Group point to belt-tightening and less deal work across the legal industry. But there might be more disputes springing out of the deals actually moving forward.
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Q&A

Litigation Leaders: Pryor Cashman Co-Chairs Say Being a Litigator 'Is and Should Be a Passion'

"Wherever possible we try to staff our cases with one or two partners working with one or two associates so that everyone on each team is actually an active part of the whole rather than feeling as if they are doing piecework," said Todd Soloway, who co-chairs the 71-litigator group with Donald Zakarin.
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Q&A

Litigators of the Week: Wilmer Wins Big 'Simply Prepaid' Trademark Fight for T-Mobile

Joseph Mueller and Brittany Amadi of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr won summary judgment that Simply Wireless abandoned its unregistered trademark for "Simply Prepaid." Their client T-Mobile has generated more than $1 billion in revenues from its "Simply Prepaid" services.
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Quick Takes

Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout Outs

Steptoe & Johnson litigators are runners-up for upholding their Chancery Court win requiring CorePower Yoga to buy 34 studios from their client Level 4 Yoga, a Corepower franchisee.
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Analysis

2 Public Company GCs Weigh In on the Current Litigation Landscape

Michael Ullmann, the outgoing GC of Johnson & Johnson, and David Battisti, the GC of Penske Transportation Solutions, gave a window into difficult litigation discussions with executives and corporate board during a summit on law, policy and politics sponsored by the Institute for Legal Reform at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
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Analysis

Five Years In, Some Thoughts on #MeToo, Law Firms and Litigation

The movement has fueled an emphasis on disclosure and transparency.
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Editor's Letter

Talk Data to Me

Are you or your firm using data to help your clients achieve better litigation outcomes? Or do you know a client or company that's harnessing data in new and creative ways relating to litigation? I'd love to hear about it.
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Best Practices

A Data-Based Leap of Faith: Chewing on Predictive Analytics With Law Firm Marketing Pro Kimberly Rennick

Rennick, the chief marketing and business development officer for the Americas at Allen & Overy, earlier in her career helped harness data to retain clients at DLA Piper.
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Litigators of the Week: Cahill Gets a Defense Verdict for Credit Suisse as Last Bank Standing in Foreign Exchange Class Action

While 15 other banks paid plaintiffs a total of more than $2.3 billion to settle claims they conspired to manipulate the $5 trillion-per-day foreign exchange currency market, Herbert Washer, Edward Moss and Tammy Roy of Cahill Gordon & Reindel defended Credit Suisse at trial and won.
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Quick Takes

A Frightfully Full Edition of Litigator of the Week Runners-Ups and Shout Outs

Dan Webb of Winston & Strawn led a team representing Versata Software in a three-week trial involving automotive configuration software where a Detroit jury hit Ford Motor Co. with a $100 million damages verdict.
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Turning the Courtroom into a Kitchen Table: Uncovering Juror Bias During Voir Dire With Mike Brown of Nelson Mullins

"It's all about the jury," says Mike Brown of Nelson Mullins. "We can all think that we're tremendous trial lawyers and we have all these great skills. But it really does depend on who's in the box."
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Analysis

The Curious Case of a Long-Missing Charles White Drawing

A federal judge in Manhattan last week sided with Howard University in an ownership fight over a drawing that had been missing from the school's collection since the 1970s.
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Conversation

'Don't Waste the Court's Time': A Delaware Chancery Court Primer from Paul Weiss's Andre Bouchard

"You've got to jealously guard when you get the court involved in matters," says Bouchard, the former Chancellor of Delaware's Court of Chancery, now a partner at Paul Weiss.
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Best Practices

'Story's Not a Gimmick': Using Images and Digital Technology to Drive Home Your Message to Juries

"When people get involved in a good story, attention spans lengthen," says Ohio trial lawyer Jim Casey. "Story defeats bias. It defeats resistance and it crosses generations."
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Q&A

Litigator of the Week: Kasowitz Partner Reps 'Platinum Cooperator' in FCPA Case Involving Venezuelan State Oil Company

Daniel Fetterman of Kasowitz Benson Torres represented Venezualan businessman Abraham Shiera, who received a sentence of one year and a day of prison time, a significant downward departure from the guidelines range for his role in the bribery scandal involving PDVSA, the Venezuelan state-run oil company.
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Quick Takes

Another Jam-Packed Edition of Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout Outs

Davis Polk & Wardwell and Ridley, McGreevy & Winocur secured the dismissal of criminal charges against the last two remaining individual defendants in the government's long-running probe of alleged price-fixing in the market for broiler chickens.
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Best Practices

The Advantages of Authenticity: 'You Can't Tell an Effective Story as Someone Else'

Sara Williams of Alexander Shunnarah Trial Attorneys says she became a better trial attorney after getting over the idea she needed to be Atticus Finch.
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Best Practices

A Road Map for Handling the Stress of High-Profile Trial Work

Minneapolis District Judge Peter Cahill, who oversaw the murder trial of the police officer who killed George Floyd, says its good to recognize the things that are within your control and those that are not when you're faced with the stress inherent in a high-profile trial.
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Analysis

Taking Stock of the Shrinking, But Still Massive, Opioid Docket

A half-dozen years after the first cases seeking to hold drug companies, distributors and pharmacies liable for the costs of dealing with the opioid crisis, our colleague Amanda Bronstad gives a thorough rundown of the current state of play.
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Q&A

Litigation Leaders: Knobbe Martens' Co-Chairs on Recruiting IP Litigators Early in Their Career and Teaching Them To Collaborate

"We believe strongly in giving younger lawyers the opportunity to gain hands-on experience very early on, and we have a shorter partnership track—six years—than most other firms," says Sheila Swaroop, who has co-chaired the firm's litigation practice with partner Michael Friedland since last November.
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Litigators of the Week: 5 Weeks Into Countrywide Trial, Quinn and Patterson Belknap Bring Home $1.84B Settlement for Ambac

A trial team led by Michael Carlinsky and Manisha Sheth at Quinn Emanuel and Peter Tomlinson at Patterson Belknap landed the market-moving payout for monoline insurer Ambac in the case dating back to the mortgage meltdown.
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Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout Outs

Our first runners-up this week are Josh Koskoff, Chris Mattei and Alinor Sterling of Koskoff, Koskoff & Bieder who landed a nearly $1 billion verdict…
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Best Practices

One Last 'Reality Check': Kat Hacker of Bartlit Beck on Running Mock Trials

"What our practice is all driving towards is trial and that moment where you stand up and you have somebody decide are you going to win or are you going to lose," Hacker said. "Mocks are the first opportunity to get that feedback about your case—and a pretty close corollary to trial."
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Conversation

You See 26 Volumes of Evidence from the Warren Commission? Judge Alsup Sees Fodder for a Debut Novel

In "The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald," Senior U.S. District Judge William Alsup imagines a world where Jack Ruby does not kill Lee Harvey Oswald and Oswald must stand trial for assassinating President John F. Kennedy.
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Best Practices

Encounters with a Robot: David Boies on Cross-Examination

That lawyer who is cross-examining you might as well be a robot, says Boies. "It's going to have every aspect of a human being except you can't persuade them, you can't intimidate them, you can't control them, you can't change their mind."
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