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Litigation Daily

Litigators of the Week: A $604.9M Trade Secrets Verdict With a Big Assist From a Juror Question

Michael Ng and Daniel Zaheer of Kobre & Kim represented renewable fuels company Propel against Phillips 66 Co. alongside colleagues in a month-long trial in California state court. Ng argued at closings that a juror question elicited a "confession" from a Phillips executive admitting to liability and trade secret misappropriation.
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Litigation Daily

Another Stellar Crop of Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout-Outs

A team at Susman Godfrey secured a $1.6 billion win for client BML Properties in a dispute with China Construction America Inc. over delays at the Baha Mar resort casino in the Bahamas.
7 minute read

New York Law Journal

Wang Hecker Wins $25M CVA Judgment on Behalf of Client Abused by Her Brother

The Wang Hecker law firm won a $25 million judgment on behalf of its client who, under New York's Child Victims Act, sued her brother on allegations…
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Jim Walden, Former Managing Partner of Walden Macht Haran & Williams, Announces Bid for NYC Mayor

Walden said the mayoral bid had nothing to do with the decision to step away from his role as managing partner.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

Chainalysis Beats $650 Million Lawsuit for Report Labeling Crypto Company 'Scam'

"The statute is still relatively new in the sense that the case law interpreting and applying the statute's standard for pleading-stage dismissal has continued to develop," said Ellyde R. Thompson, a partner at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Pa. High Court Throws Out Disciplinary Charges Over Lawyer's $1M Fee Request

"This is very significant not just for this individual case but for the profession," said BrotmanLaw's Ellen Brotman, who represented Michael Pisanchyn.
4 minute read

Law.com

Ex Parte Trademark Appeals to District Court — Lessons Learned from the Front Lines

Although pursuit of an appeal of an adverse ex parte decision from the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board to the Federal Circuit may under some circumstances prove to be quicker and less expensive, appeals to district courts are becoming increasingly attractive given recent changes in the law and USPTO practice in defending these actions. Based on the authors' recent experience in several such appeals, they can share the following lessons learned.
13 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

3 Lawyers Just Got Closer to Judgeships in Area Beset by Vacancies

The votes to advance their nominations come at a critical time for the courts in Union County, which has six vacancies, tying it with Mercer County for the largest number of vacancies in the state judiciary.
4 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

'This Case Was My Life': Solo Practitioner Gets $4.9M Settlement

"You had to really have a vision of what was happening here," solo practitioner Michelle Holmes said. "This idea that people got fired over complaining about a porta-potty in the parking lot, nobody could really see the First Amendment component of the case. ... I really dug deep and I could see what the case was about."
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Industrial Products Company Hit With Products Liability Suit Over Drill's Lack of Safety Precautions

Attorneys with Saltz Mongeluzzi Bendesky filed the Oct. 22 suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on behalf of Logan Freiermuth.
4 minute read

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