The Litigation Daily RSS

Michael Ullmann, the outgoing GC of Johnson & Johnson, and David Battisti, the GC of Penske Transportation Solutions, gave a window into difficult litigation discussions with executives and corporate board during a summit on law, policy and politics sponsored by the Institute for Legal Reform at...

Read the whole entry... »

The movement has fueled an emphasis on disclosure and transparency.

An overview of the weekly Litigator of the Week feature.

There have been a couple of interesting streams that have been flowing through this column-space of late. On the one hand, there's been a lot

Rennick, the chief marketing and business development officer for the Americas at Allen & Overy, earlier in her career helped harness data to retain clients at DLA Piper.

While 15 other banks paid plaintiffs a total of more than $2.3 billion to settle claims they conspired to manipulate the $5 trillion-per-day foreign exchange currency market, Herbert Washer, Edward Moss and Tammy Roy of Cahill Gordon & Reindel defended Credit Suisse at trial and won.

Dan Webb of Winston & Strawn led a team representing Versata Software in a three-week trial involving automotive configuration software where a Detroit jury hit Ford Motor Co. with a $100 million damages verdict.

"It's all about the jury," says Mike Brown of Nelson Mullins. "We can all think that we're tremendous trial lawyers and we have all these great skills. But it really does depend on who's in the box."

A federal judge in Manhattan last week sided with Howard University in an ownership fight over a drawing that had been missing from the school's collection since the 1970s.

"You've got to jealously guard when you get the court involved in matters," says Bouchard, the former Chancellor of Delaware's Court of Chancery, now a partner at Paul Weiss.

"When people get involved in a good story, attention spans lengthen," says Ohio trial lawyer Jim Casey. "Story defeats bias. It defeats resistance and it crosses generations."

Daniel Fetterman of Kasowitz Benson Torres represented Venezualan businessman Abraham Shiera, who received a sentence of one year and a day of prison time, a significant downward departure from the guidelines range for his role in the bribery scandal involving PDVSA, the Venezuelan state-run oil...

Read the whole entry... »

Davis Polk & Wardwell and Ridley, McGreevy & Winocur secured the dismissal of criminal charges against the last two remaining individual defendants in the government's long-running probe of alleged price-fixing in the market for broiler chickens.

Sara Williams of Alexander Shunnarah Trial Attorneys says she became a better trial attorney after getting over the idea she needed to be Atticus Finch.

Minneapolis District Judge Peter Cahill, who oversaw the murder trial of the police officer who killed George Floyd, says its good to recognize the things that are within your control and those that are not when you're faced with the stress inherent in a high-profile trial.

A half-dozen years after the first cases seeking to hold drug companies, distributors and pharmacies liable for the costs of dealing with the opioid crisis, our colleague Amanda Bronstad gives a thorough rundown of the current state of play.

"We believe strongly in giving younger lawyers the opportunity to gain hands-on experience very early on, and we have a shorter partnership track—six years—than most other firms," says Sheila Swaroop, who has co-chaired the firm's litigation practice with partner Michael Friedland since...

Read the whole entry... »

A trial team led by Michael Carlinsky and Manisha Sheth at Quinn Emanuel and Peter Tomlinson at Patterson Belknap landed the market-moving payout for monoline insurer Ambac in the case dating back to the mortgage meltdown.

Our first runners-up this week are Josh Koskoff, Chris Mattei and Alinor Sterling of Koskoff, Koskoff & Bieder who landed a nearly $1 billion verdict

"What our practice is all driving towards is trial and that moment where you stand up and you have somebody decide are you going to win or are you going to lose," Hacker said. "Mocks are the first opportunity to get that feedback about your case—and a pretty close corollary to trial."