By Roy Strom | May 15, 2017
The Chicago-based Am Law 100 firm has hired two federal prosecutors in as many months as the firm drops the "white-collar defense" tag for its well-known investigations practice. The most recent is Brandon Fox, chief of the public corruption and civil rights section at the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles.
By Rebecca Cohen | May 13, 2017
Steven Cherny, a well-regarded intellectual property litigator who has spent nearly the past decade at Kirkland & Ellis, has joined Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan as a partner in New York.
By Ben Hancock | May 11, 2017
You might say Wilmer's William Lee and Joseph Mueller were in a good position heading into trial in Delaware on behalf of Intel Corp. The day it began, the judge compared their opponent's case to someone “floating off into the inky blackness of space with no hope of survival or rescue.”
By Meghan Tribe | May 9, 2017
Jones Day has hired Andrew Luger, until recently the U.S. Attorney for Minnesota, as a partner for its new office in Minneapolis. Jones Day opened in the Twin Cities last year.
By Rebecca Cohen | May 8, 2017
Irell & Manella has brought back former associate Jason Linder, most recently a senior trial attorney with the criminal division of the Justice Department's Foreign Corrupt Practices Act unit in Washington, D.C., as a partner and head of its global investigations and anticorruption practice.
By Celia Ampel | May 8, 2017
Fort Lauderdale attorney Scott Schlesinger teamed up with his father's former co-counsel Steve Yerrid to win a Tampa tobacco verdict.
By Jenna Greene | May 7, 2017
Talk about a jury of your peers. Four of the top litigators in the country went toe-to-toe Friday at the annual meeting of the litigation section of the American Bar Association in San Francisco, competing before hundreds of attendees to see who gave the best closing argument. Each lawyer ponied up $10,000 to compete.
By Amanda Bronstad | May 4, 2017
A federal jury in New Orleans deliberated for less than two hours before coming back this week with a defense win in the first bellwether trial over the blood thinner Xarelto. That's a bona fide slam dunk--even for lead defense counsel Beth Wilkinson, who's notched a streak of trial victories in her career.
By Monika Gonzalez Mesa | May 4, 2017
Two longtime Sedgwick lawyers started work at GrayRobinson's Fort Lauderdale office this week after tiring of the Miami commute they inherited when Sedgwick closed its Broward office last summer.
By Roy Strom | May 3, 2017
Five years after leaving the U.S. attorney's office in Chicago, Patrick Fitzgerald has recruited his first former assistant. What took so long?
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