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

A team at Susman Godfrey secured a $1.6 billion win for client BML Properties in a dispute with China Construction America Inc. over delays at the Baha Mar resort casino in the Bahamas.
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Analysis

What Social Media Can Tell You About Your Jury

"It's that outpouring of emotion that I am particularly interested in finding, because those people tend to be the most strident in deliberations and frequently for the plaintiff," Jill Leibold, a senior jury consulting adviser with IMS Legal Strategies, said.
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Analysis

How Kramer Levin's Patent Trial Team Approaches Teaching Tech to Juries

Paul Andre, Liza Kobialka and James Hannah of Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel, who have won three trials in the past 10 months, say trying to oversimplify technology for juries is a mistake.
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Q&A

How Do You Get Experience Leading an MDL Without Experience Leading an MDL?

Litigation Daily explores the chicken/egg question of how plaintiffs lawyers secure leadership appointments in multidistrict litigation with three Seeger Weiss lawyers: Parvin Aminolroaya, Jennifer Scullion and Shauna Itri.
11 minute read
Webcast

Judicial Face-Off: Navigating the Ethical and Efficient Use of AI in Legal Practice [CLE Pending]

Join the webcast and learn how to harness the potential of AI in your legal practice while ensuring that you remain compliant and protect your clients' confidentiality.
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Q&A

Litigation Leaders: Quinn Emanuel's Michael Carlinsky on Training Associates to Think and Act Like Trial Lawyers

"Unlike full-service firms where a young associate has the option of trying different practices, junior lawyers (and senior lawyers) come to Quinn because they want to be the very best litigators—and want to learn from the best."
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Q&A

Litigators of the Week: A Win for Homeless Veterans On the VA's West LA Campus

After a month-long bench trial earlier this year, Roman Silberfeld and Tommy Du of Robins Kaplan and Mark Rosenbaum of Public Counsel secured a ruling voiding the Veterans Administration's leases of portions of the campus to private entities and requiring the construction of new housing for class members.
7 minute read
Quick Takes

Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout-Outs

Runners-up this week include litigation teams at Wilmer and Kirkland.
6 minute read
Conversation

Leveling the Playing Field: Insights From Celebrated Women Legal Leaders

Several of the recent Women, Influence, and Power in Law Conference honorees offered thoughts about addressing gender disparities in the legal industry.
4 minute read
Analysis

A Couple of Early Suggestions From ABOTA's 'A More Perfect Jury' Project

In 2022, the American Board of Trial Advocates Foundation launched a multi-year study in partnership with law schools and the National Center for State Courts aimed at improving the jury selection process. Study participants at UC Law San Francisco discussed their preliminary findings yesterday.
4 minute read
Best Practices

Trial Tips for a Post-Pandemic World: Persuading the Modern Jury

In the post-pandemic era, two new types of juror behaviors have emerged that every attorney should be aware of: Conspiracism and Safetyism.
11 minute read
Q&A

Litigators of the Week: Jeffrey Kessler and Steve Berman Reach a Settlement With the NCAA that Reshapes College Sports

The antitrust stars at Winston & Strawn and Hagens Berman got preliminary approval of a settlement that will pay more than $2.75 billion in back damages to former college athletes and allow schools to share revenue with current players through pools of up to about $21.5 million in the first year of the deal.
6 minute read
Quick Takes

Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout-Outs

Runners-up this week include litigators from Sullivan & Cromwell, MoloLamken and Wilkinson Stekloff.
6 minute read
Commentary

A Reporter and a Mayor: Behind the Scenes During the Eric Adams Indictment News Cycle

One reporter's peek inside the 48 hours surrounding the indictment of New York City Mayor Eric Adams on charges including wire fraud, solicitation of contributions from foreign nationals and bribery.
10 minute read
Best Practices

'The Most Peculiar Federal Court in the Country' Comes to Berkeley Law

After sitting together as a panel to hear arguments in three cases Tuesday morning, Federal Circuit Judges Timothy Dyk, Raymond Chen and Judge Kara Stoll answered law students' questions about the qualities of winning advocates.
5 minute read
Conversation

Focusing an Economic Lens On the Decrease In Federal Civil Jury Trials

"I think the [decline in] civil jury trials in the federal court can be styled to be a market failure because the price is too high," says Ninth Circuit Senior Judge Carlos Bea.
5 minute read
Analysis

What to Watch For in the Upcoming SCOTUS Term

A curtain-raiser on the U.S. Supreme Court term that starts today courtesy of our Law.com colleague Jimmy Hoover.
3 minute read
Q&A

Litigators of the Week: Kirkland Fends Off Antitrust Claims for Thomson Reuters Against AI-Backed Start-Up

Kirkland's Dan Laytin, Christa Cottrell and Cameron Ginder won a summary judgment ruling finding ROSS Intelligence hadn't shown that Thomson Reuters' Westlaw inappropriately tied its public law database to its search tool in violation of antitrust laws.
10 minute read
Quick Takes

Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout-Outs

Runners-up this week include teams litigators from Jones Day and Robbins Geller.
7 minute read
Analysis

Law Firms Mobilize To Respond to Anti-DEI Backlash

With employers left wondering if their affinity group or hiring initiative will get them dragged into court, law firms are bulking up their offerings to clients worried about litigation risk.
7 minute read
Analysis

How Senior Litigators Are Dealing With the 'Biden Effect'

Introducing a new series of stories from Law.com's litigation desk discussing how litigators approaching their 70s and beyond are approaching career transitions.
4 minute read
Webcast

Data-Driven Legal Strategies

Join the webcast and discover how AI can enhance your decision-making with advanced search tools and analytics.
2 minute read

New Revenue Streams: Getting the right skills in place is essential

Learn how adoption of generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) technology in the legal profession is having an impact on all areas of law firm operations.
5 minute read
Conversation

'Corporate Lawyers Who Happen to Litigate': A Closer Look at a Recent Securities Litigation Hot Streak at Freshfields

Boris Feldman and Doru Gavril, who joined the firm from Wilson Sonsini a little more than four years ago, both rank among the top 10 busiest defense-side securities lawyers over the past three years.
6 minute read
Podcast

AI and Protecting Your IP Strategy

In this episode of AI Here and Now podcast series, IP Partner Cory Fisher and Privacy Partner Camila Tobón discuss how AI could impact your IP strategy.
1 minute read
Best Practices

Litigating Pesticide Bans and Restrictions for Defendants

David Schifrin and Melissa Baney of Hollingsworth write that introducing evidence of bans or restrictions risks creating unfair prejudice, confusing the jury and wasting time.
7 minute read
Q&A

Litigators of the Week: Robbins Geller Lands $490M Securities Settlement in Case Over Apple's Prospects in China

Partners Shawn Williams and Mark Solomon were lead counsel for plaintiffs on the case, which yielded one of the 50 largest securities recoveries of all time and the third-largest ever in the Northern District of California.
11 minute read
Quick Takes

Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout-Outs

Gary Robb and his team at Robb & Robb won a $116 million verdict for their clients, whose son drowned when a tour helicopter crashed and overturned in the East River in 2018.
6 minute read
Analysis

Even With New Business Courts, Texas Is a Long Way from Taking Delaware's Corporate Law Mantle

While Texas attorneys have been upfront about their hope that the state's newest courts will help raise Texas' corporate law to Delaware's level, corporate attorneys across the country are all but unanimous: Delaware remains the champ, and that's not changing, at least not any time soon.
5 minute read
Best Practices

Davis Polk and Legal Aid Society Team to Knock 15 Years Off Sex-Trafficking Survivor's Sentence

The firm spent more than 2,000 pro bono hours representing the woman who received the harshest sentence of eight defendants' charges after a fight erupted when her loved ones confronted her trafficker, resulting in the death of one of the trafficker's associates.
6 minute read
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