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Firms Come Out of the Gate With High-Profile Litigation Hires in 2025

Here’s a roundup of three major moves our Law.com colleagues have covered already this year involving litigators switching firms in the Am Law 50.
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Analysis

Some Thoughts on What It Takes to Connect With Millennial Jurors

By one estimate, millennials are set to make up 70% of the workforce this year. They’re inevitably going to be a significant part of any jury pool. Here are some tips for tailoring your presentation to appeal to them.
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Q&A

Litigators of the Week: A Directed Verdict Win for Cisco in a West Texas Patent Case

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s Brian Rosenthal, Stuart Rosenberg and Audrey Yang helped Cisco secure a rare directed verdict last week in a patent infringement trial with $120 million in damages on the line. U.S. District Judge Alan Albright in Waco has granted rule 50(a) motions only three times. Rosenthal has been lead counsel in two of those cases.
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Quick Takes

Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout-Outs

Runners-up this week include litigators at Gibson Dunn, Kasowitz Benson Torres and Weil, Gotshal & Manges.
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Analysis

With DEI Rollbacks, Employment Lawyers See Potential For Targeting Corporate Commitment to Equality

Companies that have scaled back their DEI initiatives should be prepared for those actions to be scrutinized if they are faced with a suit claiming that a firing or other action involving a particular employee was motivated by factors such as race, gender, religion or national origin.
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Conversation

MoFo Associate Sees a Familiar Face During Her First Appellate Argument: Justice Breyer

Morrison & Foerster associate Diana Kim clerked for Justice Stephen Breyer for two terms at the U.S. Supreme Court before joining the firm about two years ago. She learned about a week before she argued her first appeal at the First Circuit this month that the retired justice would be sitting on the panel hearing the case.
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Profile

Amid the Tragedy of the L.A. Fires, a Lesson on the Value of Good Neighbors

Steve Foster, a litigation partner at Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp, remained in his Pacific Palisades neighborhood despite evacuation orders to try to protect his childhood home and the homes of his neighbors.
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Q&A

Litigators of the Week: Shortly After Name Partner Kathleen Sullivan’s Retirement, Quinn Emanuel Scores Appellate Win for Vimeo

In a case that’s been running for a decade and a half of Sullivan’s 20 years at the firm that bears her name, the Second Circuit found that video-sharing website Vimeo was entitled to safe harbor under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act from claims brought by music rightsholders—handing a win to Sullivan and partners Todd Anten and Owen Roberts.
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Quick Takes

Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout-Outs

White & Case scored a significant turnaround at the U.S. International Trade Commission for client Voltage in a patent dispute over solar panel technology.
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Analysis

Shareholder Democracy? The Chatter Elon Musk’s Tesla Pay Case Is Spurring Between Lawyers and Clients

Musk continues to fight the Delaware Court of Chancery’s decision to overturn his compensation plan at Tesla, appealing two decisions from the court to the Delaware Supreme Court last week. Since December, there’s been growing concern among investors about how the Delaware courts weigh issues around shareholder democracy.
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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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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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