By Ross Todd | September 27, 2023
As if the tasks of a litigation partner weren't enough, here are four snapshots of life as a Big Law litigator and office managing partner.
By Ross Todd | September 25, 2023
Joshua Davenport of Banner Witcoff co-hosts a college football podcast heavy on advanced metrics. He says living in that world helped him assess what generative AI tools have to offer lawyers.
By Ross Todd | September 13, 2023
Leading legal technologists discussed the implications that artificial intelligence and related technologies will have on litigation in a webinar yesterday sponsored by Burford Capital.
By Ross Todd | September 7, 2023
U.S. District Judges Trina Thompson and Beth Freeman, both of whom sit in the Northern District of California, discussed their approaches to jury selection last week and the differences, though subtle, were significant.
By Ross Todd | August 3, 2023
The five newly-minted partners in Second Hundred firms who participated in Law.com's "How I Made It" series this past year illustrate the growing number of pathways to a successful litigation practice.
By Ross Todd | July 26, 2023
"In an odd sort of way, the requirement to be impartial, and the related qualities of dispassion are actually sustained by emotion and emotion work," says Kathy Mack, an emeritus professor at Flinders Law School in southern Australia. "So rather than being opposites, they're actually very deeply enmeshed."
By Ross Todd | July 24, 2023
Cornerstone Research noted in its midyear assessment of securities class actions that the string of bank failures that rocked the markets earlier this year already generated six securities class actions.
By Ross Todd | July 20, 2023
In what our friends at The American Lawyer called a "post-pandemic reset," average hours were flat in the latest Pro Bono Scorecard, after an earlier, precipitous drop from the time when lawyers filled their pandemic-stalled dockets with pro bono work.
By Ross Todd | July 19, 2023
U.S. Magistrate Judge Robert Norway compared the Coca-Cola Co. to a "jaundiced-eyed vaudeville actor." It might sound like a stretch, but the comparison is actually quite illuminating once you hear the judge's setup.
By Ross Todd | July 18, 2023
Loren Brown and Matt Holian of DLA Piper and Christa Cottrell of Kirkland & Ellis discuss the advantages of having education, explanatory court sessions early in multidistrict litigation.
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