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Talking Shop About Faegre Drinker's New Arizona Design Lab with Trial Partner David 'DJ' Gross

Gross, the author of "Design Thinking and Visual Advocacy for Lawyers" and an unabashed design enthusiast, gave Litigation Daily a FaceTime tour of the firm's new space where he's the lone lawyer.
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Podcast

Colorado's Impact on AI

In episode five of this podcast series, Privacy Partner Camila Tobón and Privacy Associate Josh Hansen discuss the Colorado AI Act and its potential impact on other states and a federal AI Act.
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Analysis

Everytown Law Publishes Guide for Lawyers Bringing Civil Litigation Against the Gun Industry

The gun safety advocacy group Everytown Law has grown to a team of 32, including 26 litigators. Today, they're publishing a 110-page manual aimed at helping others bring civil cases on behalf of gun violence survivors and victims targeting reckless and illegal conduct by firearm industry players.
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Q&A

Litigators of the Week: A $604.9M Trade Secrets Verdict With a Big Assist From a Juror Question

Michael Ng and Daniel Zaheer of Kobre & Kim represented renewable fuels company Propel against Phillips 66 Co. alongside colleagues in a month-long trial in California state court. Ng argued at closings that a juror question elicited a "confession" from a Phillips executive admitting to liability and trade secret misappropriation.
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Quick Takes

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.
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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.
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Quick Takes

Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout-Outs

Runners-up this week include litigation teams at Wilmer and Kirkland.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Michael G. Bongiorno, Andrew Scott Dulberg and Elizabeth E. Driscoll from Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr have stepped in to represent Symbotic Inc., an A.I.-enabled technology platform that focuses on increasing supply chain efficiency, and other defendants in a pending shareholder derivative lawsuit. The case, filed Oct. 2 in Massachusetts District Court by the Brown Law Firm on behalf of Stephen Austen, accuses certain officers and directors of misleading investors in regard to Symbotic's potential for margin growth by failing to disclose that the company was not equipped to timely deploy its systems or manage expenses through project delays. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Nathaniel M. Gorton, is 1:24-cv-12522, Austen v. Cohen et al.

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Edmund Polubinski and Marie Killmond of Davis Polk & Wardwell have entered appearances for data platform software development company MongoDB and other defendants in a pending shareholder derivative lawsuit. The action, filed Oct. 7 in New York Southern District Court by the Brown Law Firm, accuses the company's directors and/or officers of falsely expressing confidence in the company’s restructuring of its sales incentive plan and downplaying the severity of decreases in its upfront commitments. The case is 1:24-cv-07594, Roy v. Ittycheria et al.

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Amy O. Bruchs and Kurt F. Ellison of Michael Best & Friedrich have entered appearances for Epic Systems Corp. in a pending employment discrimination lawsuit. The suit was filed Sept. 7 in Wisconsin Western District Court by Levine Eisberner LLC and Siri & Glimstad on behalf of a project manager who claims that he was wrongfully terminated after applying for a religious exemption to the defendant's COVID-19 vaccine mandate. The case, assigned to U.S. Magistrate Judge Anita Marie Boor, is 3:24-cv-00630, Secker, Nathan v. Epic Systems Corporation.

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David X. Sullivan, Thomas J. Finn and Gregory A. Hall from McCarter & English have entered appearances for Sunrun Installation Services in a pending civil rights lawsuit. The complaint was filed Sept. 4 in Connecticut District Court by attorney Robert M. Berke on behalf of former employee George Edward Steins, who was arrested and charged with employing an unregistered home improvement salesperson. The complaint alleges that had Sunrun informed the Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection that the plaintiff's employment had ended in 2017 and that he no longer held Sunrun's home improvement contractor license, he would not have been hit with charges, which were dismissed in May 2024. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer, is 3:24-cv-01423, Steins v. Sunrun, Inc. et al.

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Greenberg Traurig shareholder Joshua L. Raskin has entered an appearance for boohoo.com UK Ltd. in a pending patent infringement lawsuit. The suit, filed Sept. 3 in Texas Eastern District Court by Rozier Hardt McDonough on behalf of Alto Dynamics, asserts five patents related to an online shopping platform. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap, is 2:24-cv-00719, Alto Dynamics, LLC v. boohoo.com UK Limited.

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