By Ross Todd | March 18, 2022
Last week the official overseeing military commissions at Guantanamo slashed 16 years off the sentence of the detainee represented by Katya Jestin of Jenner & Block and Wells Dixon of the Center for Constitutional Rights. Seven of the eight military jurors in their client's case wrote a letter calling his torture "a stain on the moral fiber of America."
By Ross Todd | March 11, 2022
The federal judge overseeing the NFL concussion benefits process gave sign-off last week to a settlement that will eliminate the use of race-based norms, a major win for Black retirees who intervened in the case with counsel from Zuckerman Spaeder's Cy Smith and Aitan Goelman.
By Ross Todd | March 10, 2022
Prieto, the head of commercial and class action litigation at Miami boutique Podhurst Orseck, is set to moderate a panel of MDL judges at The Miami Law Class Action and Complex Litigation Forum on Friday.
By Ross Todd | March 7, 2022
"While patent cases are complex technically and legally, they must be presented to everyday people on juries in terms that make sense to them."
By Ross Todd | March 4, 2022
Ray Nimrod, Matt Robson, and Zach Summers of Quinn Emanuel persuaded the Patent Trial and Appeal Board that their client, the Broad Institute, invented the use of the gene-editing technology CRISPR-Cas9 in plants and animals before two scientists who won the Nobel Prize in 2020 for work on it.
By Ross Todd | February 25, 2022
After just two hours of deliberations, jurors sided with Michael Carlinsky and Maaren Shah of Quinn Emanuel and Robert Harrell of Mayer Brown by denying the policyholder's claim for $27.5 million worth of coverage tied to a settlement with the state of Texas.
By Ross Todd | February 18, 2022
"What they lost can never be remedied," says Josh Koskoff of Koskoff, Koskoff & Bieder of the nine families he and partner Alinor Sterling represent. "But despite their grief, and through their courage and their persistence, they have won a measure of accountability."
By Ross Todd | February 14, 2022
"Debevoise is a true partnership; we try to cooperate as fiercely within the firm as we compete fiercely outside it. We really like working together, and our clients tell us that comes through in our relationships with them."
By Ross Todd | February 11, 2022
Despite objections from the U.S. Trustee, the SEC, the state of Rhode Island and others, Latham's Chris Harris and Betsy Marks were able to get judicial sign-off on the pharma company's reorganization plan, including a $1.7 billion settlement of opioid-related litigation.
By Ross Todd | February 8, 2022
"Every time there is a new technology that can be used by people to sell things that gives rise to new trademark and copyright issues," says Willsey, the global chair of the trademark, copyright and advertising practice group at Brown Rudnick.
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