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'Clear the Runway': Bill Lee's Longtime Focus on Succession Planning

Wilmer's Lee, who tried seven cases between February 2021 and November 2022, says the work was taxing. "It requires a degree of mental and physical stamina that, at least for me as I'm in my 70s, was not something that I could look myself in the mirror and claim that I was sure that I had."
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Cooley Litigation Rainmaker Mike Rhodes Set To Retire: 'It's a Good Time to Hang It Up and Do Something Else'

Rhodes, 66, the former head of the firm's litigation department and a leading trial lawyer for internet companies, plans to retire from the Cooley partnership at the year's end.
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Q&A

Litigators of the Week: The Eighth Circuit Knocks Out a $564M Verdict Against BMO in Ponzi Case

Debevoise's John Gleeson, Mayer Brown's Richard Spehr and Elaine Goldenberg of Munger Tolles helped convince the Eighth Circuit that the bankruptcy trustee of a company run by a convicted Minnesota Ponzi schemer couldn't pursue aiding and abetting claims against the bank because the company bore responsibility for its own injury.
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Quick Takes

Litigator of the Week Runners-Up

McKool Smith represented Mojo Mobility Inc. in patent litigation against Samsung Electronics as federal jurors in Marshall, Texas hit Samsung with a $192 million infringement verdict last week.
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Q&A

Where Privacy Laws and Litigation Trends Collide: A Conversation with Covington & Burling's Lindsey Tonsager and Kate Cahoy

The pair say that as case law under the Video Privacy Protection Act has become unfavorable to plaintiffs, they've seen creative attempts to apply other untested laws bearing statutory penalties to online technologies.
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Conversation

Getting Ahead of Unfair Criticism of Judges

Judge Barbara Kronlund of San Joaquin County, California Superior Court has developed a presentation focused on the importance of judicial independence aimed at non-legal audiences that's been adopted by the local ABOTA chapter.
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Webcast

Preparing Your Law Firm for 2025: Smart Ways to Embrace AI & Other Technologies

Join the webcast to explore how transformative technologies drive legal industry change and how to embrace them to avoid being left behind.
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Best Practices

Three Steps for Building Great Relationships with In-House Counsel

Legal podcasters Stacy Bratcher and M.C. Sungaila draw from interviews with dozens of in-house attorneys to offer up these tips for outside counsel.
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News

Travis Lenkner Returns to Burford Capital With an Eye on Future Growth Opportunities

Lenkner, the co-founder of litigation finance firm Gerchen Keller Capital and plaintiff-side law firm Keller Lenkner, is taking on a newly created role of chief development officer at Burford and will sit on the company's management committee.
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Q&A

Litigators of the Week: Ingersoll Rand Enforces a Noncompete Against an Exec Who Jumped Ship to Verboten Competitor

Despite Colorado's law rendering most noncompete agreements void, a state court judge barred former ILC Dover CEO Corey Walker from working for Aventor through next June. The ruling was a win for Dover's acquirer, Ingersoll Rand Inc., and its lawyers, Quinn Emanuel's Andrew Rossman, Peter Fountain and Owen Roberts.
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Quick Takes

Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout-Outs

Willkie Farr & Gallagher scored a major win at the Third Circuit for bondholders in the bankruptcy of Hertz Corp. entitling them to nearly $270 million plus interest.
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Profile

Meet the Judge Heading Philadelphia's Mass Torts Program

Judge Joshua Robert suggested lawyers who handle mass torts in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas try "resetting the dialogue," saying, "the more pedantic details or the more little things that we're going to be asked to decide are just going to bog us down."
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Podcast

AI Abroad

In this episode of AI Here and Now podcast series, IP Partner Cory Fisher and Privacy Partner Camila Tobón discuss how other countries are regulating AI and what that may mean for you.
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Best Practices

NITA Gears Up For Fourth 'Women In Trial' Program in Chicago

Faculty member Allison Rocker of Baker McKenzie and past participant Markiana Julceus of Lowenstein Sandler give a rundown of the trial training program developed specifically for women.
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Profile

After Battling Cancer, Boies Schiller Rainmaker Stuart Singer Tackles Something New: Day-to-Day Firm Management

Singer, who took time away from his busy litigation practice in 2022 to battle non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, became one of Boies Schiller's three co-managing partners earlier this year at a moment of transition for the firm.
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Q&A

Litigation Leaders: Casey Laffey of Reed Smith on Being 'More Prepared Than the Other Side'

"We are focused on continuing to grow in hot-button areas like tech and data class actions, insolvency, managed care, and cross-border disputes."
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Q&A

Litigators of the Week: Feds Drop Charges Against Maryland Lawyer Facing Fraud Case Over $12M in Somali Funds

After four years of pretrial litigation by a defense team at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld team led by Paul Butler, Allison Coffin and Madeline Bardi, federal prosecutors dropped all charges against Maryland attorney Jeremy Schulman last week.
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Quick Takes

Another Loaded Batch of Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout-Outs

Lawyers at Selendy Gay landed what appears to be the largest damages award ever in an earnout dispute in Delaware. David Sanford of Sanford Heisler Sharp secured a win for the family of murder victim Hae Min Lee at the Maryland Supreme Court.
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Becoming 'America's Largest Injury Firm': Why Morgan & Morgan Isn't Hurting for Business

A look at how the firm John Morgan founded in 1988 has expanded to more than 100 offices–at least one in all 50 states—with more than 1,000 attorneys firmwide.
6 minute read
Profile

For Sheppard Mullin Pro Bono Team, Three Big Disability Rights Wins in One Day

Sheppard Mullin pro bono partner Daniel Brown began working on disability rights issues after his brother became a wheelchair user after a spinal cord injury.
4 minute read

New Revenue Streams: Transform unprofitable practices into thriving businesses

Learn how Gen AI can help lawyers to transform unprofitable practices into new revenue streams.
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Conversation

Talking Shop About Tom Girardi's Criminal Trial With My Colleague Amanda Bronstad

Last week a federal jury in Los Angeles convicted former powerhouse plaintiffs lawyer Tom Girardi of four counts of wire fraud in cases where his clients weren't paid what they were due in settlements. We discussed the trial with Law.com's Amanda Bronstad, who has covered Girardi for two decades and was at the trial each day.
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Editor's Letter

Litigator of the Week (Updated) FAQs

An overview of the weekly Litigator of the Week feature.
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Podcast

Be Likable, Tell the Story Right: Mike Lynch/Autonomy Trial Left As Much Out as Was Allowed In

ALM reporter Maria Dinzeo covered the Lynch trial and she speaks with Legal Speak's Patrick Smith about the happenings in the courtroom, how the jury reacted to testimony from witnesses on both sides and how several elements that could have impacted the jury's decision were not allowed to be presented to the jury.
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Q&A

Litigators of the Week: Second Circuit Tells Argentina to Turn Over More Than $300M to Bondholders

The Second Circuit held that certain funds weren't protected by the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, handing a win to investors represented by Dennis Hranitzky, John Bash and Alex Loomis of Quinn Emanuel.
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Quick Takes

Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout-Outs

Davis Polk & Wardwell secured a win for Morgan Stanley in a case the firm has handled since 2012 against German bank IKB Deutsche Industriebank AG stemming from IKB's purchase of residential mortgage-backed securities between 2005 and 2007.
5 minute read
Analysis

The New Federal Sentencing Factor in Downstate New York? Prison Conditions

Federal judges in the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York are fashioning alternative sentences because conditions are so bad at a Bureau of Prisons Facility in Brooklyn.
8 minute read
Analysis

How a Team at Steptoe Helped Unravel the 'Dinosaur Bones' Case

When four people were charged with shipping $1 million in dinosaur bones allegedly stolen from public lands in Utah to China, the New York Post and USA Today picked up the story. Prosecutors dropped all charges last week.
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Conversation

How Kirkland Litigators and Restructuring Lawyers Partner on Bankruptcy Work

Kirkland & Ellis litigator Mark McKane and his restructuring partner Aparna Yenamandra discuss their recent work on behalf of retail pharmacy Rite Aid, which is poised to emerge from bankruptcy.
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Q&A

Litigator of the Week: A Long-Sought Win on Preemption for Monsanto at the Third Circuit

David Zionts of Covington & Burling argued for Monsanto at the Third Circuit in a case where the court held that the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act preempted plaintiffs' failure-to-warn claims brought under Pennsylvania state law. The decision splits with the Ninth and Eleventh Circuits, which rejected Monsanto's preemption arguments in earlier Roundup cases.
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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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