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Analysis

Tracking a Spurt of Moves in the White-Collar World

A recent report tracking lateral partner hires by Am law 50 and Magic Circle firms in London, New York, Washington, D.C. and the San Francisco Bay area found that white-collar moves more than doubled year-over-year.
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Analysis

An Empirical Look at 'Social Inflation'

In a 103-page report released earlier this month, RAND Corporation researchers took a look at changes in court filings, jury verdicts in personal injury cases and insurance claims and concluded that the trendlines were "consistent with an upsurge in social inflation during the 2010s."
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Analysis

The Career Paths That Lead 3 Big Law Litigators to Practice Leadership

Retracing the unique professional journeys that have led Fenwick's Saina Shamilov, Robins Kaplan's Brendan Johnson and Pryor Cashman's Ilene Farkas to practice group leadership posts.
8 minute read
Podcast

John Morgan on Morgan & Morgan, Legal Marketing and What Comes Next

In a recent interview, John Morgan, founder of Morgan & Morgan, shared the personal tragedy that inspired his career, how the power of digital marketing helped his firm grow into the largest personal injury firm in the United States and what comes next as he considers retirement.
2 minute read
Q&A

Litigators of the Week: The Delaware Supreme Court Turns Its Spotlight on Advance Notice Bylaws

In the latest tug of war in Delaware law between activist investors and corporate boards, Teresa Goody Guillén and Richard Raile of Baker & Hostetler and John Seaman of Abrams & Bayliss represent Ted Kellner, an AIM ImmunoTech Inc. stockholder seeking board seats.
7 minute read
Quick Takes

Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout-Outs

Runners-up this week include litigation teams at Kirkland, Kobre & Kim, O'Melveny and Sullivan & Cromwell.
6 minute read
Analysis

'Should I Sue?': Navigating the New APA Landscape With Latham's Phil Perry and Andrew Prins

With the Supreme Court handing down two blockbuster APA decisions at the end of last term, federal agencies and private companies are adjusting to the new lay of the land.
8 minute read
Best Practices

Keep It Simple, and Maybe Pocket That Peremptory: Trial Tips From Either Side of the 'V'

Kathleen Flynn Peterson of Ciresi Conlin in Minneapolis and Kat Gallagher of Rodman & Rodman in Denver try cases on opposite sides of the bar and in different regions, but have some similar thoughts behind their approaches.
6 minute read
Best Practices

Stop and Think About That Sealing Request Before You File It

U.S. District Judge Joshua Wolson in Philadelphia says lawyers can't "yada, yada, yada" their way into the showing of harm needed to obtain a sealing order in his courtroom.
6 minute read
Analysis

Big Law Pro Bono Hours Continue Upward Trend, But Fall Short of Pre-Pandemic Levels

Here's a recap of the latest Pro Bono Scorecard from our friends at The American Lawyer and a compilation of the pro bono lawyers who won Litigator of the Week honors last year.
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Q&A

Litigators of the Week: A Reset in the Fight Over Nearly $2B in Bonds Issued by Venezuela's National Oil Company

After the New York high court previously ruled that Venezuelan law governs the validity of bonds issued under the Maduro regime, the Second Circuit this week vacated a judgment against Petróleos de Venezuela S.A., a win for affiliated clients represented by Igor Timofeyev of Paul Hastings and Michael Gottlieb of Willkie Farr & Gallagher.
12 minute read
Quick Takes

Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout-Outs

Runners-up this week include trademark litigators from Debevoise and patent litigators at Cooley and MoFo.
6 minute read
Webcast

Beyond the finish line: Why the real race begins with CLM Post-Implementation Support

Join an insightful webcast where industry experts will delve into the critical importance of a CLM post-implementation strategy.
4 minute read
Profile

The Brother-Sister Litigators Who Took on the FTC Over a North Carolina Hospital Merger

Gibson Dunn's Michael Perry and his younger sister, C.J. Pruski of Williams & Connolly, represented the seller and buyer of two North Carolina hospitals in beating back a preliminary injunction bid by the Federal Trade Commission.
8 minute read
Webcast

Emerging Technologies and Best Practices for Data Governance in Law Firms

Join an insightful webcast where industry experts will reveal the latest trends and best practices in emerging technologies and data governance for law firms.
2 minute read
Q&A

Litigator of the (Past) Week: In First SCOTUS Arg, Gibson Dunn's Evangelis Tackles Thorny Policy Issues Around Homelessness

Theane Evangelis represented Grants Pass, Oregon, in a case where the court found the city's public-camping ordinance did not violate the Eighth Amendment.
11 minute read
Quick Takes

Runners-Up and Shout-Outs From Before the 4th

Here's a look at some of the wins that landed in the run-up to the Independence Day holiday.
7 minute read

Litigation Leaders: Don McMinn of Hollingsworth on Going Where the Work Takes You

"We have argued before federal and state courts nationwide, and we do not shy away from going toe-to-toe with plaintiffs' counsel in their preferred home-turf courthouses, whether that be suburban California or small-town Mississippi."
9 minute read
Profile

Defense Lawyer Barry Pollack On the Questions Left Unanswered After Julian Assange's Plea Deal

As Barry Pollack of Harris St. Laurent & Wechsler was handling a high-profile sexual assault case for a lawyer-defendant last month in D.C. Superior Court, he was also helping negotiate the guilty plea that allowed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to return to Australia a free man.
6 minute read

Leading an Am Law 50 Office While Maintaining a Litigation Practice

Some insight from Nancy Chung, who leads Sidley Austin's New York office, Megan Nishikawa of Hogan Lovells in San Francisco, Petrina Hall McDaniel, of Squire Patton Boggs in Atlanta, and Anthony (Tony) Barkow, of Jenner & Block in New York.
5 minute read

Integrating Generative AI into a Lawyer's Workflow

Legal AI — Gen AI tools trained for the legal profession — is transforming the practice of law right now, enabling lawyers at firms who are adopting these tools to draft legal documents faster than ever
3 minute read

The Tough Part About the Transition to the Bench … and Then to the Appellate Bench

Speaking at the federal courthouse in Seattle last week, Ninth Circuit Chief Judge Mary Murguia and her colleagues Consuelo Callahan and Kim McLane discussed their career paths and the biggest challenge about taking on trial and appellate court roles.
6 minute read
Q&A

Litigators of the Week: Eliciting a Mea Culpa From the IRS For Citadel Founder Over Leaked Tax Records

After William Burck, AJ Merton and Peter Fountain of Quinn Emanuel sued the Internal Revenue Service on behalf of billionaire investor Ken Griffin, the agency this week apologized to him and thousands of others whose tax information was leaked to the press by a contractor.
10 minute read
Quick Takes

Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout-Outs

Runners-up this week include litigators from Steptoe and Quinn Emanuel.
7 minute read

Litigator of the (Past) Week: SCOTUS Unanimously Preserves Access to Abortion Pill Mifepristone

Jessica Ellsworth of Hogan Lovells represented pharmaceutical company Danco Laboratories throughout a court challenge to the way the FDA regulated the use of mifepristone.
9 minute read
Best Practices

Deep Breaths and Clenched Toes: Tips For Making It Through Jury Selection

Chris Beeman of Northern California civil defense firm Clapp Moroney Vucinich Beeman + Scheley and Richard Schoenberger of San Francisco plaintiffs firm Walkup, Melodia, Kelly & Schoenberger offer some nuggets on managing voir dire.
5 minute read
Quick Takes

Runners-Up and Shout-Outs From While We Were Out

Here's a look at some of the wins that piled up while we were out last week.
6 minute read
Q&A

Litigation Leaders: Ben Brown of Cohen Milstein on What Makes the Firm 'a Defendant's Worst Nightmare'

Brown, who took on the role of managing partner earlier this year succeeding Steven Toll in the post, said the firm is full of "mission-driven superachievers who believe in their case."
13 minute read
Podcast

Holland & Knight Partners Discuss Their Ascent to Leadership Roles and What It Took to Get There

Tiffani Lee and Kwamina Williford, both of whom hold positions of leadership at Holland & Knight, on the unique challenges they overcame and the guidance necessary to get there.
1 minute read
Podcast

Finding Your Voice: Two Prominent Litigators Discuss the Importance of Vocal Power and How It Isn't All in the Genes

Morrison & Forester's James Brosnahan and Latham & Watkins' Sean Berkowitz discuss how they use their voices as effective professional tools and how, yes, you likely can too.
2 minute read
Q&A

Litigators of the Week: In Case Prosecutors Described as Silicon Valley's Biggest Corporate Fraud, Two Complete Defense Verdicts

With Steptoe's Brian Heberlig and Clifford Chance's Christopher Morvillo representing former Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch and Gary Lincenberg of Bird Marella representing former vice president of finance Stephen Chamberlain, jurors found both defendants not guilty of charges of padding the revenues at the software company to defraud its acquirer, Hewlett-Packard.
13 minute read
Quick Takes

Litigators of the Week Runners-Up

Kirkland & Ellis scored a knockout win for Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. in a more than decadelong multidistrict litigation where the company was accused of conspiring to delay the launch of a generic version of the blockbuster cholesterol drug Lipitor.
7 minute read
Conversation

The Goal Is to Make Elsberg Baker & Maruri a Firm Full of First-Chair Trial Lawyers. Here's the Plan.

David Elsberg has a stated goal of making everyone in his young firm, which currently has 17 lawyers, capable of leading a trial team.
11 minute read
Q&A

An In-House Lawyer's Perspective on Going to Trial

Pete Welch of Take-Two Interactive Software discusses how watching his company go to trial against a tattooist who inked Lebron James "felt like watching the most intense reality show, where the subject matter is your daily work life."
8 minute read
Q&A

Take-Two's Pete Welch on 'Getting the Best Results While Getting in the Way the Least'

The veteran in-house video game company litigator says it's critical for lawyers in his position to understand what their clients do, as well as their needs, challenges, and culture.
10 minute read
News

Legal Speak's 'Sidebar With Saul' Part V: Strange Days of Trump Trial Culminate in Historic Verdict

In this week's Legal Speak episode, ALM litigation reporter Emily Saul joins producers Cedra Mayfield and Patrick Smith for a roundup discussion of the first Trump criminal trial.
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Q&A

Litigators of the Week: ACLU Takes on First Amendment Case for the NRA at SCOTUS

The National Rifle Association's legal team, led by William Brewer III of Brewer, Attorneys & Counselors, called on David Cole of the American Civil Liberties Union to revive its First Amendment case against ex-New York state Department of Financial Services Superintendent Maria Vullo.
6 minute read
Quick Takes

Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout Outs

Eugene Scalia, Helgi Walker and their team at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher won a ruling striking down new rules from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission aimed at private funds.
6 minute read
Analysis

A Couple of Interesting Points From the US Chamber's Latest Research on 'Nuclear' Verdicts

Oriana Senatore, senior vice president of research and strategic development at the U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform, spoke about the newly released report during a webcast sponsored by Tyson & Mendes.
3 minute read
Analysis

The Winding Path Some Litigators Take to Partnership

Some of the litigators from boutiques and mid-size law firms who participated in Law.com's "How I Made It" series this past year had their early careers disrupted by the Great Recession.
7 minute read
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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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