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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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Quick Takes

Let’s Hear It One Last Time!: One More Bow for 2024’s Litigators of the Week

Quinn Emanuel’s two-year reign atop the Litigator of the Week league tables comes to an end with a new but familiar name amassing the most wins this year.
16 minute read
Quick Takes

What We Heard From Litigation Leaders in 2024

Here's one last visit with the 18 leaders of Big Law litigation practices and elite boutiques we connected with this year as part of our Litigation Leaders Q&A series.
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Q&A

Litigation Leaders: Greenspoon Marder’s Beth-Ann Krimsky on What Makes Her Team ‘Prepared, Compassionate and Wicked Smart’

“The value of coming to a Greenspoon Marder lawyer is our attorneys handle cases from beginning to end and actually do go to trial.”
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Q&A

Litigators of the Week: After a 74-Day Trial, Shook Fends Off Claims From Artist’s Heirs Against UMB Bank

Lawyers for Thomas Hart Benton’s heirs were seeking hundreds of millions of dollars based on claims UMB Bank mismanaged the family trust for the artist at the forefront of the Regionalist movement and lost more than 100 of his works. A judge in Kansas City awarded just $35,000 for five works unaccounted for by the bank, represented at trial by Todd Ruskamp, Patrick Kenney and Russell Shankland of Shook, Hardy & Bacon.
10 minute read
Quick Takes

Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout-Outs

Those taking home Runners-Up honors this week include litigators at Debevoise, Kirkland, Patterson Belknap, Stris & Maher, Weil and Winston & Strawn.
7 minute read
News

An ‘Indiana Jones Moment’: Mayer Brown’s John Nadolenco and Kelly Kramer on the 10-Year Legal Saga of the Bahia Emerald

Mayer Brown’s Kramer said that the case shows that countries can coordinate on returning stolen property, but the process is “long and slow.”
6 minute read
Best Practices

‘It's Your Funeral’: Avoiding Doing Damage to Your Client’s Case With Uncivil Behavior

Here are some thoughts on professionalism, ethics and civility in the courtroom from Judge Jay Quam in Minnesota, Judge Margaret Schreiber in Florida and Retired Justice William Bedsworth in California.
5 minute read
Profile

Why the Founders of IP Boutique Fisch Sigler Are Stepping Away From the Law and Starting an AI Venture

Alan Fisch and Bill Sigler announced last month that Dec. 31 will be Fisch Sigler’s last day of operation. They’re launching a new company aimed at applying artificial intelligence to agriculture.
5 minute read
Analysis

Tips From—and About—the New Judges on the Northern District of California Bench

U.S. District Judges Trina Thompson, Araceli Martínez-Olguín, Casey Pitts, Rita Lin and Eumi Lee, all appointees of President Joe Biden, spoke about what they expect from lawyers who come before them at an event in San Francisco last week.
10 minute read
Q&A

Litigators of the Week: 3 Former SGs Team Up In a Major Opioid Win for Pharmacies at the Ohio Supreme Court

The state’s high court found that the Ohio Product Liability Act barred public-nuisance claims that resulted in a $650 million verdict for two Ohio counties. Jeffrey Wall of Sullivan & Cromwell represented Walgreens, Noel Francisco of Jones Day represented Walmart and Donald Verrilli Jr. of Munger, Tolles & Olson represented CVS.
7 minute read
Quick Takes

Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout-Outs

A team at Munger, Tolles & Olson teamed with the Washington State Office of the Attorney General to secure a permanent injunction against the proposed $24.6 billion merger of the Kroger and Albertsons grocery chains.
6 minute read
Profile

Like a Life Raft: Ben Brafman Reflects on Nearly 50 Years as a Defense Attorney

At 76 years old, Benjamin Brafman says he’s not going anywhere and business is better than ever.
18 minute read

Things That Can Win (Or Lose) a Trial

Gibson Dunn partners George Hazel and Gregg Costa, who both spent time serving on the federal trial bench earlier in their careers, recently walked through things they think weigh heavily on the outcome of a trial.
5 minute read
Analysis

What We Learned From In-House Litigators in 2024

This year we gained insights from Steve Mahieu of The Kraft Heinz Co., Nikki Stitt Sokol of Meta Platforms Inc. and Pete Welch of Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. We want to hear from more of your clients.
7 minute read
Q&A

‘How to Succeed as a Trial Lawyer’: Talking Shop With Author and Veteran Litigator Stewart Edelstein

Edelstein, who practiced as a commercial trial lawyer for 40 years at Cohen and Wolf in Connecticut and taught clinical courses at Yale Law School for 20 years, discusses the latest edition of his book, which he calls a “portable mentor” for trial lawyers.
10 minute read

Litigator of the Week: Cantor Fitzgerald Fights Off Former Partners’ Antitrust Claims Over Post-Employment Pay

After Cantor Fitzgerald got an earlier ruling from the Delaware Supreme Court finding the forfeiture-for-competition provisions of its partnership agreements valid under state law, Benjamin Nagin and Tacy Flint of Sidley Austin and David Paul, the co-head of litigation at the financial services firm, won a motion to dismiss federal antitrust claims brought on behalf of former partners.
7 minute read
Quick Takes

Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout-Outs

A trial team at Goodwin Procter won a $452 million verdict for client Insulet Corp. in a trade secrets case involving insulin pump technology against Korean rival EOFlow Co.
6 minute read
News

Wish List Unlocked: Here’s What Lawyers Want For Christmas

Law.com asked litigators–and neutrals–what they wanted to be gifted, both literally and figuratively, for the holidays.
9 minute read
Q&A

Litigator of the (Past) Week: A $34.7M Defamation Win For Former Walmart Truck Driver

David deRubertis of The deRubertis Law Firm and Mohamed Eldessouky of Eldessouky Law convinced jurors in San Bernardino, California, that the company defamed client Jesse Fonseca by claiming he committed a fireable “integrity” violation of Walmart’s ethics code when he took pre-planned, disclosed family trips while on worker’s compensation.
12 minute read
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