Our first runner-up this week is Robins Kaplan partner Michael Collyard, who secured an order forcing BMO Harris Bank to pay pre- and post-judgment interest on a $564 million jury verdict the firm won last year stemming from one the largest Ponzi schemes in U.S. history. After a four-week trial, jurors found in November that the bank’s predecessors at M&I Marshall and Ilsley Bank aided and abetted Ponzi schemer Tom Petters and his accomplices in laundering billions in proceeds through 2008. Last week’s order from U.S. District Judge Wilhelmina Wright in St. Paul brings the total award to Collyard’s client, BMO litigation trustee Douglas A. Kelly, to more than $1 billion.
Runners-up honors also go to lawyers at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld who worked alongside lawyers at the American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Tennessee and Lambda Legal to get a preliminary junction blocking Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth. U.S. District Judge Eli Richardson in Nashville this week found the team’s clients, parents of transgender youth, demonstrated irreparable harm and met their burden of showing that the law, SB1, is most likely unconstitutional on its face. The Akin team on the matter was led by Dean Chapman and includes David Bethea, Kristen Chin, Martine Cicconi, Rick D’Amato, Chris Gessner, Taylor Leighton, Kyle McGoey, Amama Rasani, James Salwen, Lizzy Scott, Joseph Sorkin, Joe Sullivan and Jen Langmack.
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