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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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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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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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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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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.
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Quick Takes

Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout-Outs

Runners-up this week include litigators at Wachtell, Davis Polk and Paul Weiss.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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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