Ross Todd is the Editor/columnist for the Am Law Litigation Daily. He writes about litigation of all sorts. Previously, Ross was the Bureau Chief of The Recorder, ALM's California affiliate. Contact Ross at [email protected]. On Twitter: @Ross_Todd.
January 31, 2025 | Litigation Daily
Litigators of the Week: A $630M Antitrust Settlement for Automotive Software Vendors—$140M More Than Alleged OverchargesMore than eight years ago, Michael Nemelka of Kellogg, Hansen, Todd, Figel & Frederick got a call from an automotive software company alleging CDK Global conspired with its main rival to eliminate competition. This week, on the eve of trial, Nemelka and partners Derek Ho and Dan Dorris helped a class of vendors reach a $630 million settlement with CDK.
By Ross Todd
6 minute read
January 31, 2025 | Litigation Daily
Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout-OutsRunners-Up this week include litigators at Davis Wright Tremaine, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, Gupta Wessler, Latham & Watkins, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, Steptoe, Sullivan & Cromwell and Susman Godfrey.
By Ross Todd
7 minute read
January 29, 2025 | Litigation Daily
A Second Straight Year of Increased Securities Filings—With Perhaps More on the HorizonJerry Silk of Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann and Scott Musoff of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom discuss the latest annual report on securities class action filings from Cornerstone Research and the Stanford Law School Securities Class Action Clearinghouse.
By Ross Todd
5 minute read
January 28, 2025 | Litigation Daily
Firms Come Out of the Gate With High-Profile Litigation Hires in 2025Here’s a roundup of three major moves our Law.com colleagues have covered already this year involving litigators switching firms in the Am Law 50.
By Ross Todd
5 minute read
January 27, 2025 | Law.com
What It Takes to Connect With Millennial JurorsBy one estimate, millennials are set to make up 70% of the workforce this year. They’re inevitably going to be a significant part of any jury pool. Here are some tips for tailoring your presentation to appeal to them.
By Ross Todd
5 minute read
January 27, 2025 | Litigation Daily
Some Thoughts on What It Takes to Connect With Millennial JurorsBy one estimate, millennials are set to make up 70% of the workforce this year. They’re inevitably going to be a significant part of any jury pool. Here are some tips for tailoring your presentation to appeal to them.
By Ross Todd
5 minute read
January 24, 2025 | Litigation Daily
Litigators of the Week: A Directed Verdict Win for Cisco in a West Texas Patent CaseGibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s Brian Rosenthal, Stuart Rosenberg and Audrey Yang helped Cisco secure a rare directed verdict last week in a patent infringement trial with $120 million in damages on the line. U.S. District Judge Alan Albright in Waco has granted rule 50(a) motions only three times. Rosenthal has been lead counsel in two of those cases.
By Ross Todd
12 minute read
January 24, 2025 | Litigation Daily
Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout-OutsRunners-up this week include litigators at Gibson Dunn, Kasowitz Benson Torres and Weil, Gotshal & Manges.
By Ross Todd
6 minute read
January 22, 2025 | Litigation Daily
MoFo Associate Sees a Familiar Face During Her First Appellate Argument: Justice BreyerMorrison & Foerster associate Diana Kim clerked for Justice Stephen Breyer for two terms at the U.S. Supreme Court before joining the firm about two years ago. She learned about a week before she argued her first appeal at the First Circuit this month that the retired justice would be sitting on the panel hearing the case.
By Ross Todd
7 minute read
January 21, 2025 | Law.com
Quiet Retirement Meets Resounding Win: Quinn Emanuel Name Partner Kathleen Sullivan's Vimeo VictoryIn a case that’s been running for a decade and a half of Sullivan’s 20 years at the firm that bears her name, the Second Circuit found that video-sharing website Vimeo was entitled to safe harbor under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act from claims brought by music rightsholders—handing a win to Sullivan and partners Todd Anten and Owen Roberts.
By Ross Todd
10 minute read
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