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Litigators of the Week: Ingersoll Rand Enforces a Noncompete Against an Exec Who Jumped Ship to Verboten Competitor

Despite Colorado's law rendering most noncompete agreements void, a state court judge barred former ILC Dover CEO Corey Walker from working for Aventor through next June. The ruling was a win for Dover's acquirer, Ingersoll Rand Inc., and its lawyers, Quinn Emanuel's Andrew Rossman, Peter Fountain and Owen Roberts.
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Quick Takes

Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout-Outs

Willkie Farr & Gallagher scored a major win at the Third Circuit for bondholders in the bankruptcy of Hertz Corp. entitling them to nearly $270 million plus interest.
6 minute read
Profile

Meet the Judge Heading Philadelphia's Mass Torts Program

Judge Joshua Robert suggested lawyers who handle mass torts in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas try "resetting the dialogue," saying, "the more pedantic details or the more little things that we're going to be asked to decide are just going to bog us down."
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Podcast

AI Abroad

In this episode of AI Here and Now podcast series, IP Partner Cory Fisher and Privacy Partner Camila Tobón discuss how other countries are regulating AI and what that may mean for you.
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Best Practices

NITA Gears Up For Fourth 'Women In Trial' Program in Chicago

Faculty member Allison Rocker of Baker McKenzie and past participant Markiana Julceus of Lowenstein Sandler give a rundown of the trial training program developed specifically for women.
5 minute read
Profile

After Battling Cancer, Boies Schiller Rainmaker Stuart Singer Tackles Something New: Day-to-Day Firm Management

Singer, who took time away from his busy litigation practice in 2022 to battle non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, became one of Boies Schiller's three co-managing partners earlier this year at a moment of transition for the firm.
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Q&A

Litigation Leaders: Casey Laffey of Reed Smith on Being 'More Prepared Than the Other Side'

"We are focused on continuing to grow in hot-button areas like tech and data class actions, insolvency, managed care, and cross-border disputes."
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Q&A

Litigators of the Week: Feds Drop Charges Against Maryland Lawyer Facing Fraud Case Over $12M in Somali Funds

After four years of pretrial litigation by a defense team at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld team led by Paul Butler, Allison Coffin and Madeline Bardi, federal prosecutors dropped all charges against Maryland attorney Jeremy Schulman last week.
9 minute read
Quick Takes

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

Lawyers at Selendy Gay landed what appears to be the largest damages award ever in an earnout dispute in Delaware. David Sanford of Sanford Heisler Sharp secured a win for the family of murder victim Hae Min Lee at the Maryland Supreme Court.
7 minute read

Becoming 'America's Largest Injury Firm': Why Morgan & Morgan Isn't Hurting for Business

A look at how the firm John Morgan founded in 1988 has expanded to more than 100 offices–at least one in all 50 states—with more than 1,000 attorneys firmwide.
6 minute read
Profile

For Sheppard Mullin Pro Bono Team, Three Big Disability Rights Wins in One Day

Sheppard Mullin pro bono partner Daniel Brown began working on disability rights issues after his brother became a wheelchair user after a spinal cord injury.
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New Revenue Streams: Transform unprofitable practices into thriving businesses

Learn how Gen AI can help lawyers to transform unprofitable practices into new revenue streams.
4 minute read
Conversation

Talking Shop About Tom Girardi's Criminal Trial With My Colleague Amanda Bronstad

Last week a federal jury in Los Angeles convicted former powerhouse plaintiffs lawyer Tom Girardi of four counts of wire fraud in cases where his clients weren't paid what they were due in settlements. We discussed the trial with Law.com's Amanda Bronstad, who has covered Girardi for two decades and was at the trial each day.
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Editor's Letter

Litigator of the Week (Updated) FAQs

An overview of the weekly Litigator of the Week feature.
7 minute read
Podcast

Be Likable, Tell the Story Right: Mike Lynch/Autonomy Trial Left As Much Out as Was Allowed In

ALM reporter Maria Dinzeo covered the Lynch trial and she speaks with Legal Speak's Patrick Smith about the happenings in the courtroom, how the jury reacted to testimony from witnesses on both sides and how several elements that could have impacted the jury's decision were not allowed to be presented to the jury.
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Q&A

Litigators of the Week: Second Circuit Tells Argentina to Turn Over More Than $300M to Bondholders

The Second Circuit held that certain funds weren't protected by the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, handing a win to investors represented by Dennis Hranitzky, John Bash and Alex Loomis of Quinn Emanuel.
7 minute read
Quick Takes

Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout-Outs

Davis Polk & Wardwell secured a win for Morgan Stanley in a case the firm has handled since 2012 against German bank IKB Deutsche Industriebank AG stemming from IKB's purchase of residential mortgage-backed securities between 2005 and 2007.
5 minute read
Analysis

The New Federal Sentencing Factor in Downstate New York? Prison Conditions

Federal judges in the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York are fashioning alternative sentences because conditions are so bad at a Bureau of Prisons Facility in Brooklyn.
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Analysis

How a Team at Steptoe Helped Unravel the 'Dinosaur Bones' Case

When four people were charged with shipping $1 million in dinosaur bones allegedly stolen from public lands in Utah to China, the New York Post and USA Today picked up the story. Prosecutors dropped all charges last week.
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Conversation

How Kirkland Litigators and Restructuring Lawyers Partner on Bankruptcy Work

Kirkland & Ellis litigator Mark McKane and his restructuring partner Aparna Yenamandra discuss their recent work on behalf of retail pharmacy Rite Aid, which is poised to emerge from bankruptcy.
5 minute read
Q&A

Litigator of the Week: A Long-Sought Win on Preemption for Monsanto at the Third Circuit

David Zionts of Covington & Burling argued for Monsanto at the Third Circuit in a case where the court held that the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act preempted plaintiffs' failure-to-warn claims brought under Pennsylvania state law. The decision splits with the Ninth and Eleventh Circuits, which rejected Monsanto's preemption arguments in earlier Roundup cases.
9 minute read
Quick Takes

Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout-Outs

Litigation teams at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and Sullivan & Cromwell secured a nationwide injunction blocking the Federal Trade Commission's proposed ban on non-compete agreements, which was set to go into effect early next month.
6 minute read
Q&A

Expect Some Heated Litigation Over Workplace Temperature Regulations

Jason Mills of Morgan Lewis anticipates that proposed rules to protect workers from the heat will generate strong opposition and legal challenges to them might end up before the U.S. Supreme Court.
9 minute read
Best Practices

The Business Case for Being Civil in Litigation

Lawyers on either side of the litigation bar in Los Angeles—Deborah Chang of plaintiff's firm Chang | Klein and Christopher Faenza of defense firm Yoka & Smith—laid out some reasons why it can pay to approach interactions with opposing counsel with civility.
5 minute read
Conversation

Would-Be Competitors Come Together to Increase the Number of Women Sitting First-Chair in IP Cases

Through the Lead Counsel Summit, in-house intellectual property counsel and established first-chair trial lawyers are helping other women prepare to head high-stakes trials and appeals. Litigation Daily discusses the effort with MoFo's Daralyn Durie and Sidley's Ching-Lee Fukuda.
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Q&A

Litigation Leaders: Adam Siegel of Freshfields on Four 'Cs' of the Firm's Litigation Practice

Siegel, who joined Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer more than 15 years ago to help start its white-collar practice in the U.S., says the words "commercial," "creativity," "collegiality" and "cross-border" are "core" to the firm's litigation department.
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Q&A

Litigators of the Week: Wiping Out a Startup's $72M Verdict Against Boeing

U.S. District Judge James Robart in Seattle found that the plaintiff, the now-defunct Zunum Aero Inc., hadn't adequately identified its alleged trade secrets nor shown that Boeing had interfered with its dealings with other potential investors, handing a win to John Hueston and Moez Kaba of Hueston Hennigan.
10 minute read
Quick Takes

Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout-Outs

A team at Covington & Burling knocked out a $107.5 million patent infringement verdict facing pharmaceutical client AstraZeneca.
5 minute read
Analysis

How Corporate Law Legislation Morphed Into a Conversation on Judicial Ethics

An amendment to Delaware's corporation law has divided lawyers and led to discussion about when Court of Chancery judges should and should not weigh in on laws they will later apply.
5 minute read
Q&A

Litigators of the (Past) Week: Tackling a $4.7 Billion Verdict Post-Trial for the NFL in 'Sunday Ticket' Antitrust Litigation

Beth Wilkinson, Brian Stekloff and Rakesh Kilaru of Wilkinson Stekloff and John Playforth of Covington & Burling secured a ruling from a federal judge in Los Angeles excluding the plaintiffs' experts and knocking out the jury's damages calculation.
10 minute read
Quick Takes

Litigator of the (Past) Week Runners-Up and Shout-Outs

Runners-up this week include litigators from Baker & Hostetler, Latham & Watkins and Paul Hastings.
6 minute read
Analysis

Some Perspectives on Jurors From 3 Judges

Two U.S. District Senior Judges—Marcia Krieger in Denver and Senior Judge Robert Lasnik in Seattle—and Maricopa County, Arizona Superior Court Judge Pamela Gates shared their thoughts on the collective wisdom of jurors during a program sponsored by the Berkeley Judicial Institute earlier this month.
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Q&A

Litigation Leaders: Covington's John Hall on the Value of Specialization

Hall says that perhaps a generalist approach to litigation works at firms where litigators mostly support larger transactional practices. "But at Covington, our litigation practice is a huge driver of new client work and relationships," he said.
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Q&A

Litigator of the Week: Reversing a $2B Trade Secret Verdict, the Largest in Va. History

Josh Rosenkranz, Eric Shumsky and Chris Cariello of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe secured a ruling from a Virginia appellate court that wiped out a $2 billion trade secret damages verdict facing Massachusetts software company Pegasystems Inc.
9 minute read
Quick Takes

Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout-Outs

Lawyers at McKool Smith and Keller Postman helped the Office of the Attorney General of Texas secure a $1.4 billion settlement with Meta Platforms Inc. on claims brought under the state's biometric privacy law.
7 minute read
Conversation

'Vision': Judge David Tatel on the Value of Oral Argument and Reading Drafts Aloud

Tatel, who retired from the D.C. Circuit earlier this year, subtitled his new book "A Memoir of Blindness and Justice."
4 minute read

Trust me I'm a legal AI: Can the legal profession close the 'trust gap' with Gen AI?

Discover how law firms can take some basic steps to build their lawyers' and their clients' confidence in Legal AI tools
5 minute read
Analysis

A View From Either Side of the Securities Class Action Bar on a 'Steady' First Half of 2024

In its latest report released this morning, Cornerstone Research says total class action securities filings are essentially on pace with last year. We take a look at the numbers with Robbins Geller's Darren Robbins and Simpson Thacher's Jonathan Youngwood.
4 minute read
Conversation

Snell & Wilmer's Andrew Young and the Case of the FBI's Secret Encrypted Phone Company

The book "Dark Wire" features work that Young did as a federal prosecutor helping to run ANOM, an encrypted phone company that gave the FBI a window into international drug cartels.
9 minute read
Editor's Letter

Introducing the Litigation Daily Contributing Editors

I'll still be penning the column 80% of the time. But expect to see a handful of new bylines in the next couple of months.
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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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