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Analysis

A View From Either Side of the Securities Class Action Bar on a 'Steady' First Half of 2024

In its latest report released this morning, Cornerstone Research says total class action securities filings are essentially on pace with last year. We take a look at the numbers with Robbins Geller's Darren Robbins and Simpson Thacher's Jonathan Youngwood.
4 minute read
Conversation

Snell & Wilmer's Andrew Young and the Case of the FBI's Secret Encrypted Phone Company

The book "Dark Wire" features work that Young did as a federal prosecutor helping to run ANOM, an encrypted phone company that gave the FBI a window into international drug cartels.
9 minute read
Editor's Letter

Introducing the Litigation Daily Contributing Editors

I'll still be penning the column 80% of the time. But expect to see a handful of new bylines in the next couple of months.
4 minute read
Podcast

Skadden's Ki Hong on Navigating the 2024 Election Cycle ... Legally

In a conversation with The American Lawyer's Patrick Smith, Skadden's Ki Hong describes how his practice came to fruition, how things have changed in the political climate over the last 20 years, how Harris' entry into the fray creates some confusing donor situations and what changes might make the whole apparatus a bit easier to understand.
2 minute read
Q&A

Litigators of the Week: A Trial Showdown Between Nike and NFL Wide Receiver Odell Beckham Jr.

Maurice Suh, Jeremy Smith and Poonam Kumar of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher helped Nike whittle Beckham's initial claim for more than $20 million under his endorsement contract to a little more than $800,000 by the time of trial.
10 minute read
Quick Takes

Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout Outs

First up this week is a team a Cooley that fought off a motion for a preliminary injunction in a fight between rivals in the dental artificial intelligence space.
6 minute read
Conversation

Thoughts on Making the Move from Federal Prosecutor to Big Law Partner

Danny Grooms, Rebekah Donaleski and John Bostic, three former federal prosecutors who are now partners at Cooley, discuss what it's like going from having the United States as a constant client to building a book of business in private practice.
9 minute read
Analysis

Tracking a Spurt of Moves in the White-Collar World

A recent report tracking lateral partner hires by Am law 50 and Magic Circle firms in London, New York, Washington, D.C. and the San Francisco Bay area found that white-collar moves more than doubled year-over-year.
6 minute read
Analysis

An Empirical Look at 'Social Inflation'

In a 103-page report released earlier this month, RAND Corporation researchers took a look at changes in court filings, jury verdicts in personal injury cases and insurance claims and concluded that the trendlines were "consistent with an upsurge in social inflation during the 2010s."
5 minute read
Analysis

The Career Paths That Lead 3 Big Law Litigators to Practice Leadership

Retracing the unique professional journeys that have led Fenwick's Saina Shamilov, Robins Kaplan's Brendan Johnson and Pryor Cashman's Ilene Farkas to practice group leadership posts.
8 minute read
Podcast

John Morgan on Morgan & Morgan, Legal Marketing and What Comes Next

In a recent interview, John Morgan, founder of Morgan & Morgan, shared the personal tragedy that inspired his career, how the power of digital marketing helped his firm grow into the largest personal injury firm in the United States and what comes next as he considers retirement.
2 minute read
Q&A

Litigators of the Week: The Delaware Supreme Court Turns Its Spotlight on Advance Notice Bylaws

In the latest tug of war in Delaware law between activist investors and corporate boards, Teresa Goody Guillén and Richard Raile of Baker & Hostetler and John Seaman of Abrams & Bayliss represent Ted Kellner, an AIM ImmunoTech Inc. stockholder seeking board seats.
7 minute read
Quick Takes

Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout-Outs

Runners-up this week include litigation teams at Kirkland, Kobre & Kim, O'Melveny and Sullivan & Cromwell.
6 minute read
Analysis

'Should I Sue?': Navigating the New APA Landscape With Latham's Phil Perry and Andrew Prins

With the Supreme Court handing down two blockbuster APA decisions at the end of last term, federal agencies and private companies are adjusting to the new lay of the land.
8 minute read
Best Practices

Keep It Simple, and Maybe Pocket That Peremptory: Trial Tips From Either Side of the 'V'

Kathleen Flynn Peterson of Ciresi Conlin in Minneapolis and Kat Gallagher of Rodman & Rodman in Denver try cases on opposite sides of the bar and in different regions, but have some similar thoughts behind their approaches.
6 minute read
Best Practices

Stop and Think About That Sealing Request Before You File It

U.S. District Judge Joshua Wolson in Philadelphia says lawyers can't "yada, yada, yada" their way into the showing of harm needed to obtain a sealing order in his courtroom.
6 minute read
Analysis

Big Law Pro Bono Hours Continue Upward Trend, But Fall Short of Pre-Pandemic Levels

Here's a recap of the latest Pro Bono Scorecard from our friends at The American Lawyer and a compilation of the pro bono lawyers who won Litigator of the Week honors last year.
5 minute read
Q&A

Litigators of the Week: A Reset in the Fight Over Nearly $2B in Bonds Issued by Venezuela's National Oil Company

After the New York high court previously ruled that Venezuelan law governs the validity of bonds issued under the Maduro regime, the Second Circuit this week vacated a judgment against Petróleos de Venezuela S.A., a win for affiliated clients represented by Igor Timofeyev of Paul Hastings and Michael Gottlieb of Willkie Farr & Gallagher.
12 minute read
Quick Takes

Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout-Outs

Runners-up this week include trademark litigators from Debevoise and patent litigators at Cooley and MoFo.
6 minute read
Webcast

Beyond the finish line: Why the real race begins with CLM Post-Implementation Support

Join an insightful webcast where industry experts will delve into the critical importance of a CLM post-implementation strategy.
4 minute read
Profile

The Brother-Sister Litigators Who Took on the FTC Over a North Carolina Hospital Merger

Gibson Dunn's Michael Perry and his younger sister, C.J. Pruski of Williams & Connolly, represented the seller and buyer of two North Carolina hospitals in beating back a preliminary injunction bid by the Federal Trade Commission.
8 minute read
Webcast

Emerging Technologies and Best Practices for Data Governance in Law Firms

Join an insightful webcast where industry experts will reveal the latest trends and best practices in emerging technologies and data governance for law firms.
2 minute read
Q&A

Litigator of the (Past) Week: In First SCOTUS Arg, Gibson Dunn's Evangelis Tackles Thorny Policy Issues Around Homelessness

Theane Evangelis represented Grants Pass, Oregon, in a case where the court found the city's public-camping ordinance did not violate the Eighth Amendment.
11 minute read
Quick Takes

Runners-Up and Shout-Outs From Before the 4th

Here's a look at some of the wins that landed in the run-up to the Independence Day holiday.
7 minute read

Litigation Leaders: Don McMinn of Hollingsworth on Going Where the Work Takes You

"We have argued before federal and state courts nationwide, and we do not shy away from going toe-to-toe with plaintiffs' counsel in their preferred home-turf courthouses, whether that be suburban California or small-town Mississippi."
9 minute read
Profile

Defense Lawyer Barry Pollack On the Questions Left Unanswered After Julian Assange's Plea Deal

As Barry Pollack of Harris St. Laurent & Wechsler was handling a high-profile sexual assault case for a lawyer-defendant last month in D.C. Superior Court, he was also helping negotiate the guilty plea that allowed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to return to Australia a free man.
6 minute read

Leading an Am Law 50 Office While Maintaining a Litigation Practice

Some insight from Nancy Chung, who leads Sidley Austin's New York office, Megan Nishikawa of Hogan Lovells in San Francisco, Petrina Hall McDaniel, of Squire Patton Boggs in Atlanta, and Anthony (Tony) Barkow, of Jenner & Block in New York.
5 minute read

Integrating Generative AI into a Lawyer's Workflow

Legal AI — Gen AI tools trained for the legal profession — is transforming the practice of law right now, enabling lawyers at firms who are adopting these tools to draft legal documents faster than ever
3 minute read

The Tough Part About the Transition to the Bench … and Then to the Appellate Bench

Speaking at the federal courthouse in Seattle last week, Ninth Circuit Chief Judge Mary Murguia and her colleagues Consuelo Callahan and Kim McLane discussed their career paths and the biggest challenge about taking on trial and appellate court roles.
6 minute read
Q&A

Litigators of the Week: Eliciting a Mea Culpa From the IRS For Citadel Founder Over Leaked Tax Records

After William Burck, AJ Merton and Peter Fountain of Quinn Emanuel sued the Internal Revenue Service on behalf of billionaire investor Ken Griffin, the agency this week apologized to him and thousands of others whose tax information was leaked to the press by a contractor.
10 minute read

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