By Ross Todd | July 13, 2021
"Some of the greatest relationships I have with divisions at the company are with the divisions that have had the most litigation," says Phillips, the associate generate counsel of VEIC, a Vermont-based non-profit focused on energy efficiency. "How do we get people to understand how important this is without them going through the pain of having to prove it in discovery for example?"
By Ross Todd | July 12, 2021
"For our litigation department, associates at all levels of seniority rotate through practice areas, building a broad base of experience, working with partners and clients on various kinds of matters and across industries, and developing the agility that we believe is crucial to our lawyers' ability to master new areas of the law throughout their career," says Orsini, who co-heads the firm's litigation department with Bornstein.
By Ross Todd | July 1, 2021
"We have a sophisticated, experienced in-house team, and we expect our outside lawyers to work alongside us to fully evaluate the options presented by any given legal issue, and to keep us informed of developments, big and small, in real time."
By Ross Todd | June 30, 2021
"I think practitioners will become more sophisticated in the way that they use what happened in one jurisdiction to give them more traction in another jurisdiction when there is an advantage," says Deborah Hensler of Stanford Law School who co-authored a new report about the VW litigation and the prospect of future cases like it.
By Ross Todd | June 28, 2021
"I just think that it's a myth—that many of us have now dispelled—that we're writing for some far more sophisticated audience that has to have a law degree to understand it," says Tenth Circuit Judge Robert Bacharach, who has a new book out on legal writing that draws lessons from the field of psycholinguistics.
By Ross Todd | June 25, 2021
The Winston & Strawn co-chair represents college football players and men's and women's basketball players who this week scored a major, unanimous victory at the U.S. Supreme Court in an antitrust case against the NCAA.
By Ross Todd | June 23, 2021
Stris & Maher's Tillman Breckenridge is a self-described "beat-the-drum proponent" of being judicious when it comes to filing amicus briefs. But a brief he filed on behalf of African American antitrust lawyers caught the attention of Justice Brett Kavanaugh in this week's blockbuster NCAA decision.
By Ross Todd | June 22, 2021
"Our legal arguments require deep knowledge of our clients' industries, and our clients' objectives often require a strategy that will not disrupt positions taken with regulators. We frequently achieve this by collaborating with our regulatory colleagues who are already advising on these issues and the evolving law."
By Ross Todd | June 18, 2021
Appellate courts can be places that multibillion-dollar damages awards go to die. Not this time.
By Ross Todd | June 11, 2021
Bill Burck and AJ Merton of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan won $8.8 million in damages for PPG Industries, Inc. and the maximum amount of exemplary damages allowed under trade secrets Pennsylvania law in a suit accusing a Chinese competitor of conspiring to pilfer a proprietary process for manufacturing a new type of commercial aircraft window.
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