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"In my current role as head of litigation and investigations, I don't have the luxury to specialize — I need to be a generalist and to be prepared for just about anything. And I love that," Mar said.

Barbara Mullin of Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler fended off a generic drug maker's patent challenge to Janssen's antipsychotic drug Invega Sustenna which has more than $1.5 billion in annual sales. The win means nearly 10 more years of patent protection for the drug.

Runners-up honors go to Winston & Strawn, for a big win in Texas, and the lawyers behind the Flint water settlement.

Kirkland & Ellis was awarded statutory attorney fees as part of a $577 million settlement the state reached with the firm's clients, a coalition of students, faculty and alumni of Maryland's four public historically Black colleges and universities.

Lit Daily readers last year correctly predicted a rise in SPAC suits, disputes over supply chain disruptions and litigation centering on COVID vaccines. What do you see coming in 2022?

Taylor's team has coined the phrase the "common law of settlements" to describe his team scours settlement agreements to parse the policy priorities of state attorneys general.

"While there is competition everywhere in business, a jury verdict is as close as I can imagine to the walk-off home run, the buzzer-beating shot or the game-winning touchdown."

Kirkland partners Gene Assaf, Mike Williams and Peter Farrell led a team that brought home a $200 million contingency fee after accusing Rockwood and executives of orchestrating a "massive fraud" in the $1.1 billion sale of its pigments businesses to Huntsman.

Quinn Emanuel and Gibson Dunn kick things off this week with a couple of high-profile wins in New York.

According to a recent analysis by Lex Machina, Faegre Baker Daniels and Drinker Biddle & Reath, which merged in February of last year, combined to defend 21,235 product liability cases filed between 2018 and 2020. That's more than any firm besides Shook, Hardy & Bacon, which handled 21,308.

Wilson Elser commissioned a survey of professionals in the insurance litigation management world to see which virtual litigation practices have taken hold during the pandemic and which ones might stick around long term.

A bevy of big firm litigator lateral moves have been announced since the flip of the calendar this month. Here's a quick rundown.

"Often in the lead-up to trial it's easy to get buried in details that are ultimately not going to matter to the jury," Durie said. "It was helpful to come back at it with a mentality of starting at 30,000 feet and asking 'What is the jury going to make of this?'"

Law.com reporter Jacqueline Thomsen reported on the first days of the civil trial against the alleged organizers of the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, as well as the potential parallels with the Jan. 6 Capitol riot claims against Trump and his associates.

The tentative decision from a judge in Orange County, California, was the first major win for drug companies facing trials across the country targeting their roles in the opioid crisis. Kirkland & Ellis, Hueston Hennigan, O'Melveny & Myers and Morgan, Lewis & Bockius represented the defendants.

Runners-up this week include teams from Akin Gump, Kirkland and Skadden.

After a juror pursued a romantic relationship with an incarcerated prosecution witness, a New York appellate court nixed Tysheem McGregor's convictions on gang-related charges. Last week, after a retrial handled by Susan Gittes and Lauren Dolecki Kober of Debevoise & Plimpton, McGregor walked free.

On Monday, a federal jury in Hartford, Connecticut found that four separate crypto assets were not securities in what appears to be the first time jurors in the Second Circuit, if not the whole country, were asked to consider whether a particular cryptocurrency was a security or not.

During a virtual fireside chat Monday, two Morrison & Foerster lawyers dug into the question of whether lawyers for the former Theranos CEO will call an expert on intimate partner abuse to try to make the case she was controlled by her former boyfriend and business partner, who is set to be tried...

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Brad Graveline and Laura Burson of Sheppard Mullin won more than $100 million in damages at trial for their client SecurityPoint in a patent dispute with the federal government over the company's patented method for providing trays at security checkpoints.