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Getting Ahead of Unfair Criticism of Judges

Judge Barbara Kronlund of San Joaquin County, California Superior Court has developed a presentation focused on the importance of judicial independence aimed at non-legal audiences that's been adopted by the local ABOTA chapter.
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Webcast

Preparing Your Law Firm for 2025: Smart Ways to Embrace AI & Other Technologies

Join the webcast to explore how transformative technologies drive legal industry change and how to embrace them to avoid being left behind.
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Best Practices

Three Steps for Building Great Relationships with In-House Counsel

Legal podcasters Stacy Bratcher and M.C. Sungaila draw from interviews with dozens of in-house attorneys to offer up these tips for outside counsel.
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News

Travis Lenkner Returns to Burford Capital With an Eye on Future Growth Opportunities

Lenkner, the co-founder of litigation finance firm Gerchen Keller Capital and plaintiff-side law firm Keller Lenkner, is taking on a newly created role of chief development officer at Burford and will sit on the company's management committee.
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Q&A

Litigators of the Week: Ingersoll Rand Enforces a Noncompete Against an Exec Who Jumped Ship to Verboten Competitor

Despite Colorado's law rendering most noncompete agreements void, a state court judge barred former ILC Dover CEO Corey Walker from working for Aventor through next June. The ruling was a win for Dover's acquirer, Ingersoll Rand Inc., and its lawyers, Quinn Emanuel's Andrew Rossman, Peter Fountain and Owen Roberts.
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Quick Takes

Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout-Outs

Willkie Farr & Gallagher scored a major win at the Third Circuit for bondholders in the bankruptcy of Hertz Corp. entitling them to nearly $270 million plus interest.
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Profile

Meet the Judge Heading Philadelphia's Mass Torts Program

Judge Joshua Robert suggested lawyers who handle mass torts in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas try "resetting the dialogue," saying, "the more pedantic details or the more little things that we're going to be asked to decide are just going to bog us down."
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Podcast

AI Abroad

In this episode of AI Here and Now podcast series, IP Partner Cory Fisher and Privacy Partner Camila Tobón discuss how other countries are regulating AI and what that may mean for you.
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Best Practices

NITA Gears Up For Fourth 'Women In Trial' Program in Chicago

Faculty member Allison Rocker of Baker McKenzie and past participant Markiana Julceus of Lowenstein Sandler give a rundown of the trial training program developed specifically for women.
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Profile

After Battling Cancer, Boies Schiller Rainmaker Stuart Singer Tackles Something New: Day-to-Day Firm Management

Singer, who took time away from his busy litigation practice in 2022 to battle non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, became one of Boies Schiller's three co-managing partners earlier this year at a moment of transition for the firm.
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Q&A

Litigation Leaders: Casey Laffey of Reed Smith on Being 'More Prepared Than the Other Side'

"We are focused on continuing to grow in hot-button areas like tech and data class actions, insolvency, managed care, and cross-border disputes."
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Q&A

Litigators of the Week: Feds Drop Charges Against Maryland Lawyer Facing Fraud Case Over $12M in Somali Funds

After four years of pretrial litigation by a defense team at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld team led by Paul Butler, Allison Coffin and Madeline Bardi, federal prosecutors dropped all charges against Maryland attorney Jeremy Schulman last week.
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Quick Takes

Another Loaded Batch of Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout-Outs

Lawyers at Selendy Gay landed what appears to be the largest damages award ever in an earnout dispute in Delaware. David Sanford of Sanford Heisler Sharp secured a win for the family of murder victim Hae Min Lee at the Maryland Supreme Court.
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Becoming 'America's Largest Injury Firm': Why Morgan & Morgan Isn't Hurting for Business

A look at how the firm John Morgan founded in 1988 has expanded to more than 100 offices–at least one in all 50 states—with more than 1,000 attorneys firmwide.
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Profile

For Sheppard Mullin Pro Bono Team, Three Big Disability Rights Wins in One Day

Sheppard Mullin pro bono partner Daniel Brown began working on disability rights issues after his brother became a wheelchair user after a spinal cord injury.
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New Revenue Streams: Transform unprofitable practices into thriving businesses

Learn how Gen AI can help lawyers to transform unprofitable practices into new revenue streams.
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Conversation

Talking Shop About Tom Girardi's Criminal Trial With My Colleague Amanda Bronstad

Last week a federal jury in Los Angeles convicted former powerhouse plaintiffs lawyer Tom Girardi of four counts of wire fraud in cases where his clients weren't paid what they were due in settlements. We discussed the trial with Law.com's Amanda Bronstad, who has covered Girardi for two decades and was at the trial each day.
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Editor's Letter

Litigator of the Week (Updated) FAQs

An overview of the weekly Litigator of the Week feature.
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Podcast

Be Likable, Tell the Story Right: Mike Lynch/Autonomy Trial Left As Much Out as Was Allowed In

ALM reporter Maria Dinzeo covered the Lynch trial and she speaks with Legal Speak's Patrick Smith about the happenings in the courtroom, how the jury reacted to testimony from witnesses on both sides and how several elements that could have impacted the jury's decision were not allowed to be presented to the jury.
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Q&A

Litigators of the Week: Second Circuit Tells Argentina to Turn Over More Than $300M to Bondholders

The Second Circuit held that certain funds weren't protected by the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, handing a win to investors represented by Dennis Hranitzky, John Bash and Alex Loomis of Quinn Emanuel.
7 minute read

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