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Q&A

Litigators of the Week: A Groundbreaking Defense Win in the Algorithmic Pricing Antitrust Suit Against Vegas Hotels

With Skadden's Boris Bershteyn arguing on behalf of Las Vegas Strip casino hotels and Latham's Brendan McShane arguing for pricing software company Cendyn, the defendants won a ruling completely knocking out the price-fixing suit.
11 minute read
Quick Takes

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

This week's runners-up include litgators at Paul Weiss, Proskauer Rose, Ropes & Gray and White & Case.
7 minute read
News

'Another Arrow in the Quiver': Quinn Brings AI-Backed Litigation Forecasting Tools to All US Lawyers

The firm's partner, Pre/Dicta, has claimed 85% accuracy in predicting motion to dismiss decisions in federal court. In the past year, it has added forecasting tools for class certification, venue transfer, summary judgment and motions to compel, as well as case timelines.
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Webcast

AI/IP Issues Part 2: What Current Litigation Can Tell Us About Where IP in AI Is Heading

Join this webcast and learn how the litigation trends around patent eligibility and novelty issues, copyright and the fair use defense, and trade secret misappropriation can help in-house counsel develop internal policies to best protect the company's intellectual property.
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Podcast

Legal Speak's 'Sidebar with Saul' Part II: GOP Pols Push Misinformation, Cohen Keeps It Together

ALM litigation reporter Emily Saul gets us up to date on the happenings at the first Trump criminal trial, including reaction to testimony from Michael Cohen and the bizarre behavior of several Republican politicians.
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Analysis

Moving Beyond Individual Tasks to Seeing How a Case Works 'From Start to Finish'

We gather some advice for aspiring partners from litigators who recently joined the partnership ranks at Quinn Emanuel, Perkins Coie, Skadden, Sidley and Cooley.
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Conversation

An Advocate's Voice: Are You Stuck With the Voice You Were Born With? Or Can It Be Trained?

For an upcoming Legal Speak podcast, the Litigation Daily sat down with MoFo's James Brosnahan and Latham's Sean Berkowitz to talk about how they've honed their voices for advocacy.
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Podcast

Holwell Shuster & Goldberg Partners Leverage 'Hostile' Witnesses to Secure $101 Million Verdict Against Walmart

New York litigators Brendon DeMay and Priyanka Timblo recently secured a $101 million federal jury verdict against retail giant Walmart in the United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas. On Legal Speak, the duo discuss how they went about using hostile witnesses to further their case.
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Q&A

Litigators of the Week: King & Spalding Gets 2nd Circuit to Uphold 'All Natural' Win For Kind Bar Maker

Keri Borders and Dale Giali secured a decision upholding their summary judgment win for KIND LLC. They successfully excluded the plaintiffs experts in long-running class actions over the words "All Natural" on certain Kind bars and granola products.
8 minute read
Quick Takes

Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout Outs

Runners-up this week include litigators at Cooley, Kramer Levin and Varnum.
6 minute read
Podcast

Legal Speak's 'Sidebar With Saul: The First Trump Criminal Trial'

ALM litigation reporter Emily Saul details the events of the first Trump criminal trial inside the courtroom in Lower Manhattan.
1 minute read
Analysis

A Few Litigation-Centric Observations About the Am Law 200

Here's a quick look at some interesting trendlines and data points now that the full Am Law 200 has landed.
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Analysis

Report: Uptick in Litigation Demand Highlights Strong First Quarter for Large, Midsize Law Firms

The Thomson Reuters Institute reports that demand for litigation services was up 3.8% year-over-year in the first quarter, outpacing the 1.9% growth in demand across all practices over the same period. Litigation demand growth was most pronounced amongst Second Hundred and midsize firms.
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Analysis

O'Melveny Team Takes Pro Bono Client From 'Life Without Parole' to Life on the Outside

Parole commissioners called the case of Gilbert Mendez "refreshing" since most of the changes he made to improve himself came before he had any real hope of ever getting out of prison.
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Q&A

Litigation Leaders: Scott Kane of Squire Patton Boggs on Directness, the Importance of Action, and Commitment to the 'Mission'

Kane, a U.S. Army vet, was managing partner of the firm's Cincinnati office before becoming co-chair of the firm's global litigation practice last month.
6 minute read
News

Legal Speak: Aaron Sorkin This Is Not - Trump Trial with Emily Saul (Part 1)

Patrick Smith interview's ALM litigation reporter Emily Saul as she details the happenings of the first Trump criminal trial from inside the courtroom in Lower Manhattan.
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Q&A

Litigators of the Week: Robins Kaplan Wins First Trial Against Aerosol Dust Remover Maker

Robins Kaplan's Philip Sieff and Tara Sutton won a $7.75 million verdict for the family of a woman who was killed after a vehicle driven by an individual who huffed CRC Duster struck her car head-on. Jurors awarded no punitives, but attached a note to the verdict urging the company to "spearhead an effort to address inhalant abuse."
5 minute read
Quick Takes

Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout Outs

Peter Stris of Stris & Maher got an important win this week for ERISA plaintiffs at the Second Circuit.
6 minute read
Analysis

With Momentum For Diversity Trial Advocacy Program, ACTL Plans 4th and 5th Installments

Retired Latham & Watkins litigation partner Thomas Heiden, who heads the committee spearheading the program, said the college hasn't changed its approach after last year's Supreme Court affirmative action decision.
4 minute read
Analysis

So You Think Courts Can Handle Questions of AI-Enhanced Evidence?

Hold on to your hats.
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Analysis

What the Decline in Jury Verdicts Means for Appellate Courts

Over the past couple of years we've written about what the relative dearth of cases proceeding to a jury verdict has meant for the trial courts and law firms. Our colleague Avalon Zoppo recently looked at what it means for appellate courts and the development of the law.
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Expert Opinion

New Rule on MDLs Should Prompt Courts to Reevaluate Involvement in Settlement

Hollingsworth's Robert E. Johnston and Gary Feldon write that MDL judges who decide merits questions should avoid direct involvement in settlement discussions and detailed reports on the negotiations.
6 minute read
Q&A

Litigators of the Week: Kirkland Beats Videogame Copyright Claim From Lebron James' Tattoo Artist

Dale Cendali and Josh Simmons of Kirkland & Ellis convinced federal jurors in Ohio that 'NBA 2K' maker Take-Two had an implied license to use images that tattoo artist James Hayden inked onto James' shoulders.
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Quick Takes

Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout Outs

Runners-up this week include litigators from Hecht Partners, Hausfeld and Quinn Emanuel.
6 minute read
Conversation

Discussing The Uptick in Women Arguing at SCOTUS With Akin's Aileen McGrath

McGrath got her first argument at the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this term—a term where William & Connolly's Lisa Blatt crossed the 50-argument threshold and women have handled about one-third of oral arguments.
16 minute read
Analysis

Latham's 7-Year Fight to Reshape New York City Property Taxes

The firm won a ruling from New York's high court last month finding the city's property tax system was "unfair, inequitable and has a discriminatory disparate impact on certain protected classes of New York City property owners."
6 minute read
Conversation

How Meta Finds the Right Teams for the Right Cases at the Right Prices

The second part of the Litigation Daily's conversation with Nikki Stitt Sokol, director and associate general counsel for Meta Platforms Inc., delves into what she looks for when hiring outside counsel.
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Podcast

Legal Speak at General Counsel Conference Midwest 2024: Andy Goldberg, Laner Muchin Managing Partner

Last week, Legal Speak spoke live on location at the General Counsel Conference Midwest 2024 in Chicago with professionals across the legal industry about key insights and practical solutions that today's general counsel need to manage and better leverage C-Suite relationships, successfully overcome a litigation crisis, do more with fewer resources, and more.
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Conversation

Meta's Nikki Stitt Sokol on Learning 'Litigation Is Always About a Story'

Sokol, who has been managing litigation in-house at the company since shortly after the Facebook IPO, says it's important to learn about the people behind a business and what they're trying to accomplish.
8 minute read
Podcast

Legal Speak at General Counsel Conference Midwest 2024: Louwee Guevarra, VP and CTO at Kloves

Kloves VP and CTO Louwee Guevarra discusses the nuances involved in getting various vendor platforms, many of which utilize their own LLM and generative AI engines, to play nice with each other.
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Podcast

Legal Speak at General Counsel Conference Midwest 2024: John Meyer, General Counsel and Chief Privacy Officer at Zeem Solutions

Zeem Solutions GC and Chief Privacy Officer John Meyer discusses the importance of data privacy and how difficult it has become to protect as the number of external vendors many companies, and law firms, utilize grows exponentially.
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Q&A

Litigator of the Week: Landing a $525M Patent Verdict Against Amazon Web Services

Courtland Reichman and his team Reichman Jorgensen Lehman & Feldberg convinced a Chicago federal jury that AWS infringed three computer storage and data management patents held by Kove IO, a company founded by two University of Chicago Ph.D. graduates and co-inventors.
8 minute read
Quick Takes

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

Runners-up this week include litigators from Kirkland, Jones Day, Morgan Lewis and Paul Weiss.
6 minute read
Profile

Logging 5,500 Miles to Handle 3 Arguments in 11 Days, Capped With a Quake

After Wiggin and Dana partner Jonathan Freiman argued in the Second Circuit late last month and the California Supreme Court on April 3, he flew back East for a repeat argument in the Second Circuit just after the April 5 earthquake that shook the court.
6 minute read
Best Practices

10 Things to Keep in Mind When Picking a Jury

Richard Gabriel, president of Southern California trial consulting firm Decision Analysis Litigation Strategies, says modern jurors are coming to cases more set in their opinions, but certain best practices still apply.
7 minute read
Profile

After Munger Litigation Partner's AI-Focused Fellowship, a Call for More 'Tech Bono'

After serving as a fellow at the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology during her sabbatical from Munger, Tolles & Olson, Miriam Kim is calling on firms to expand their pro bono efforts beyond lawyer hours to include providing technical assistance to legal aid organizations.
5 minute read

Big Law Better, Explained

In this week's Legal Speak episode, McDermott Will & Emery Chair Ira Coleman explains "Big Law Better," his idea on where the legal sector is moving and what elements of previous iterations the industry should be looking to maintain and which it should perhaps relegate to times gone by.
2 minute read

Litigation Leaders: Debbie Ellingboe of Faegre Drinker on the Challenge of Merging 2 Departments During a Pandemic

Ellingboe, who led the business litigation group at Faegre Baker Daniels before its 2020 merger with Drinker Biddle & Reath, said the virtual environment provided an opportunity for attorneys to meet and connect, and likely led to more cross-office work.
11 minute read
Q&A

Litigators of the Week: Hitting Walmart With a $100M Verdict in Its Own Backyard

Brendon DeMay and Priyanka Timblo of Holwell Shuster & Goldberg represented a company that claimed Walmart backed out of a deal struck during the pandemic to get into the business-to-business market for disposable nitrile gloves when demand for PPE cooled.
8 minute read
Quick Takes

Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout Outs

Runners-up this week include litigators from Quinn Emanuel, Latham and Paul Hastings.
6 minute read
Q&A

Litigators of the (Past) Week: Google Agrees to Delete User Data in 'Incognito' Browsing Privacy Settlement

Google agreed to delete billions of user records and block third parties from tracking "Incognito" mode browsing as part of a deal to resolve litigation brought by David Boies, Mark Mao and James Lee of Boies Schiller Flexner.
6 minute read
Quick Takes

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

The runners-up for the cycle that closed on April 3.
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Q&A

How Overseeing Legal Operations Has Affected How Steve Mahieu of Kraft Heinz Looks at Litigation

"Having visibility to hourly rates, spend by matter, and other financial metrics across the department has given me a greater appreciation for the need to focus our resources on the most impactful matters to the company."
6 minute read
Podcast

As 'Social Inflation' Helps Fuel 'Nuclear' Verdicts, Insurers Address 'Legal System Abuse'

In this week's Legal Speak episode, James Whittle with the American Property Casualty Insurance Association dives into the impact of what the organization has dubbed "legal system abuse" as social inflation—the belief that large corporations are "bad actors with deep pockets"—helps fuel "nuclear" verdicts.
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Q&A

Litigators of the Week: Kaplan Hecker Knocks Out Suit Aiming to 'Punish' Non-Profit Critical of Musk's X Corp.

"X Corp. has brought this case in order to punish CCDH for CCDH publications that criticized X Corp.—and perhaps in order to dissuade others who might wish to engage in such criticism," wrote Senior U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer.
6 minute read
Quick Takes

Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout Outs

Runners-up this week include litigators from King & Spalding, Kirkland, Hogan Lovells and Weil Gotshal.
6 minute read
Analysis

'Trying to Make Some Order Out of All This Chaos': Thoughts on the MDL Process from 3 Federal Judges

"We love trying to get to the end of what seems like an intractable problem and the MDL is the perfect mechanism for that problem-solving talent to come out in members of the federal bench," said U.S. District Judge Karen Caldwell, chair of the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation.
6 minute read
Best Practices

Even When Witnesses Don't Tell You They're Panicking, They're Panicking

Allison Rocker of Baker McKenzie says that's especially true in "document-heavy" cases with tons of exhibits.
4 minute read
Conversation

4 Out of Sidley's 5 Global IP Litigation Leaders Are Women. Here's How That's Shaped the Practice

Ching-Lee Fukuda and Aimee Fagan, who both joined Sidley's IP litigation team as laterals, discuss what brought them to the firm and their approach to leading the practice.
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Q&A

Litigation Leaders: DWT's Jaime Drozd on Practicing as an Extension of Clients' Business

"Core to this mindset is understanding how a given piece of litigation fits within our clients' objectives and molding our litigation strategy accordingly," said Drozd, who co-chairs the litigation practice group at Davis Wright Tremaine.
8 minute read
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