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Tuesday's ruling is among the largest payouts BP has challenged, and Walmart is among the most high-profile businesses to make oil spill claims in a class action settlement now valued at more than $10 billion.

If the class action against Ripple Labs proceeds, it would not only threaten to eliminate XRP's utility as a currency, but it would upend and threaten to destroy "the $500 billion XRP market," according to the financial tech company's motion to dismiss.

About $6.2 million in settlement money will be divided among the whistleblowers, according to the Justice Department.

"This case presents a remarkably weak case for invalidating an Act of Congress. There is no actual contested removal, and the current director views herself as serving at the pleasure of the president," the Kirkland & Ellis partner told the Supreme Court on Wednesday.

Nearly all of the managers selected for the Democrats have law degrees, and some are former prosecutors themselves.

The new 15-attorney spinoff comes just a week after three other Boies Schiller Flexner partners based in Miami announced the formation of their own boutique firm.

In a motion to disqualify filed in San Francisco federal court, the VW team from Sullivan & Cromwell argue that Freeh's 'conflict of interest and receipt of confidential information' should bar him from serving as an expert witness for the plaintiffs.

Allison Brown of Skadden and Morton Dubin of Orrick were in Middlesex County Superior Court to represent Johnson & Johnson at openings in the punitive damages phase of the case.

It's not exactly clear why U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden is linking the two cases, although standing played a role in the D.C. Circuit arguments over McGahn's testimony.

Andrew Pruitt has worked with clients including Tronox, British Petroleum, ABB AG, Accenture and student loan provider Navient.

The workers assert that "in a staggering show of gamesmanship and discovery abuse," Tesla is skirting a court order demanding the auto company turn over fellow employees' names and contact information.

The 1863 law provides a civil cause of action for fathers for "the seduction of a daughter."

Federal prosecutors took aim at defense motions to dismiss the wire fraud case against Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes arguing that they charged the case in a way that doesn't require them to point to specific false statements.

'Mayer Brown approaches complex disputes not just in terms of wins or losses but also as long-term campaigns to reshape the law to our clients' benefit.'

Paul Weiss partner Kannon Shanmugam told the justices: "The California Supreme Court once again thumbed its nose at the Federal Arbitration Act and this court."

The aftermath of the Empire actor's prosecution is making work for Winston's Dan Webb, Steptoe's Michael Bromwich and former Chicago federal judge Reuben Castillo, now at Akerman.

Harvard Law School professor Lawrence Lessig claimed The New York Times defamed him for clicks.

Nearly eight months after Pierce Bainbridge and its former partner Donald Lewis traded public allegations of extreme misconduct, the law firm said it just learned that Lewis signed an arbitration agreement.

Appeals judges are repeatedly confronted with deciding whether a policy should be paused nationally to give litigation a chance to unfold.

Here's the full collection of Litigation Leader profiles the featuring litigation practice heads of the nation's biggest law firms.