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The $61 million verdict that Dan Miller, Jonathan DeSantis and Derek Cohen landed in Chicago federal court last week stands to be trebled to more than $183 million under the False Claims Act.

Top runners-up honors this week go to the team behind a major bench trial win for the city of San Francisco in opioid litigation against Walgreens.

Lawyers tell stories that are in search of an ending, said David Mann, a communications specialist who advises lawyers on storytelling strategies. "The jury is at the end of the story. The story has not been completed yet."

Lawyers at Greenspoon Marder sued embattled timeshare exit company Square One Holding Group on behalf of Refund, LLC, an affiliate of Westgate Resorts, in a suit we're still wrapping our heads around.

Here are some early takeaways from the National Law Journal's ongoing series of conversations with leaders in the plaintiffs bar.

Kercher explains the firm's "work from anywhere" policy this way: "We don't call it work from home. It's work from where you—as a trained professional with good judgment—should be."

Hogan Lovells partner Cate Stetson and senior associate Katie Wellington secured a key appellate victory on behalf of IEX, the exchange featured in Michael Lewis's book "Flash Boys" for its efforts aimed at frustrating high-speed trading strategies.

Runners-up include lawyers from Kirkland & Ellis, Sidley Austin, White & Case and Baker Botts who got a major win to stand up in one of the first antitrust cases involving biologic drugs.

"It is your case that you're putting on," says Henry Su, a partner at Bradley Arant Boult Cummings. "You get to decide how this gets presented."

Feinberg, the septuagenarian who oversaw settlement funds involving 9/11 and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, just landed the role as the "court-appointed estimation expert" in the Chapter 11 case of Johnson & Johnson's LTL Management.

In an order issued Friday, U.S. District Judge Cormac Carney kept Visa in the case because "it is alleged to have continued to recognize as a merchant an immense, well known, and highly visible business that it knew used its websites to host and monetize child porn."

"While our litigation practice has a national reputation, many of our litigators try cases across the country, and we handle bet-the-company lawsuits and litigate for many large companies, we also value our local reputations and practices."

Joel Cohen and Mylan Denerstein of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher secured a sentence of no jail time for Rochester, New York real estate developer Bob Morgan, after he initially faced charges of inflating the values of residential properties to get outsized loans as part of an alleged $500 million fraud...

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Litigators from Bartlit Beck, Covington & Burling, Dechert and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher are among the runners-up this week.

3M subsidiary Aearo Technologies filed for bankruptcy Tuesday claiming the massive combat earplug multidistrict litigation it's embroiled in is "broken beyond repair." The move follows last year's Chapter 11 filing by Johnson & Johnson subsidiary LTL Management involving liabilities from talcum...

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The market volatility of the first half of the year didn't yield a spike in new securities class actions according to the latest numbers from Cornerstone Research. But the price drops at issue in some cases are eye-popping.

A recent survey by Seyfarth Shaw found the volume of federal ADA Title III lawsuits fell 22% nationwide year-over-year from the first half of 2021. But the falloff has been most felt in the federal courts in California where DAs in San Francisco and Los Angeles sued firms representing serial ADA...

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Coming on the heels of a banner year for pro bono in Big Law in 2020, firms did significantly less pro bono work "by all key measures," according to Am Law.

New York's Appellate Department First Division sided with Josh Rosenkranz, Bob Loeb and Naomi Scotten of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe ruling that trial evidence did not support a finding that talc caused a Brooklyn woman's cancer.

Our first runners-up this week are lawyers at Korein Tillery and Pearson, Simon & Warshaw who reached a $185 million deal with Major League Baseball on behalf of current and former minor league baseball players in one of the largest-ever wage-and-hour class action settlements.