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Jenna Greene is editor of The Litigation Daily and author of the "Daily Dicta" column. She is based in the San Francisco Bay Area and can be reached at [email protected].
September 28, 2015 | Litigation Daily
It sounds great: Mix a powder in your drink and lose up to 21 pounds a month. Eat chocolate cake and ice cream and all the foods you love! The success rate is 90 percent! Or so claimed Roca Labs Inc., which was sued by the Federal Trade Commission last week in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida for deceptive advertising. But this case has a twist.
By Jenna Greene
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September 28, 2015 | Litigation Daily
Lawyers from Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr helped broker a $186 million settlement on behalf of the Chickasaw and Choctaw nations, which sued the federal government in 2005 for mismanaging tribal assets.
By Jenna Greene
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September 28, 2015 | The American Lawyer
Amarin Pharma v. U.S. Food & Drug Administration; Hexum v. Eli Lilly; ZeniMax Media v. Oculus VR; Carnegie Mellon University v. Marvell Technology Group
By Scott Flaherty, Scott Graham and Jenna Greene
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September 27, 2015 | Litigation Daily
Randy Mastro has been described by publications including The New York Times and The New Yorker as merciless, fierce and formidable—a lawyer who will fight you until the end. But the New York-based Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher partner and co-chair of the firm's litigation practice said that he thinks of himself “as a big teddy bear.” Which makes sense, if teddy bears also have teeth and claws.
By Jenna Greene
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September 23, 2015 | Litigation Daily
After 30 years behind bars for a drug charge, Luis Anthony Rivera was released last week—but not because he was wrongly convicted or granted clemency. He was released because it was the right thing to do. He had been punished enough. Credit an incredible pro bono effort by lawyers from Quinn Emanuel and Starnes Davis Florie.
By Jenna Greene
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September 22, 2015 | Litigation Daily
Kirkland & Ellis partner James Hurst along with Winston & Strawn partner Steven D'Amore came out on top against a team from Williams & Connolly, scoring an under-the-radar $94 million verdict on behalf of AbbVie Inc. against MedImmune LLC.
By Jenna Greene
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September 19, 2015 | Litigation Daily
Lawyers who have a strong track record of winning beauty contests share what makes a pitch work—and how it can fall flat.
By Jenna Greene
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September 16, 2015 | Litigation Daily
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher partners Kevin Rosen and Matthew Kahn delivered big for DLA Piper, winning dismissal of a suit alleging that the firm helped an investment manager misappropriate funds.
By Jenna Greene
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September 16, 2015 | Litigation Daily
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission must rue the day it ever picked a fight with Mark Cuban. But the the billionaire basketball team owner/reality show star is on the wrong side as an amicus in a case challenging the SEC's ability to bring administrative cases.
By Jenna Greene
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September 15, 2015 | Litigation Daily
A classic trusts and estates battle is brewing in Nevada state court, with a lineup straight out of central casting: the rich old man, the much younger second wife—a beautiful actress who was not technically divorced from her first husband —and the outraged children who found themselves cut out of the will. It's one of those stories that's like a car crash. You can't help but gawk.
By Jenna Greene
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