By Jenna Greene | October 3, 2017
Don't you hate it when you slog away through motions and discovery for months or years, only to get bumped when the client realizes (holy crap!) that this thing is going to trial? Conversely, don't you love it when you're the one who gets the call to parachute in? Both sentiments animate a new marketing initiative by K&L Gates that the firm has dubbed “The Trial Academy.”
By Jenna Greene | September 28, 2017
Authenticity. That more than any other quality was flagged as a key to success by 22 litigators showcased in the National Law Journal's annual “Winning” special report published on Wednesday. What other advice did they have?
By Jenna Greene | September 20, 2017
Wondering whether a given lawsuit will go to trial? SettlementAnalytics unveiled a new tool to predict the likelihood. But some Big Law litigators are skeptical that all the intangibles that determine the course of litigation can be factored in.
By Jenna Greene | September 19, 2017
Litigation can be a nasty business—but the very best lawyers are those who can win cases without being jerks. That's the central premise of the American College of Trial Lawyers, which just inducted its newest members.
By Jenna Greene | September 6, 2017
With $4 billion on the line, a team from Weil, Gotshal & Manges led by litigation department co-chair Jonathan Polkes scored a decisive summary judgment win on behalf of some of the biggest names in finance and real estate, beating back an investor class action that had been headed for trial.
By Marcia Coyle | September 6, 2017
The federal judiciary's fee-based access to its public online database, known as PACER, is not just anachronistic and counter to history but harms the structural integrity of the modern judiciary, a new research article claims.
By Cheryl Miller | September 1, 2017
A federal judge has sanctioned two California lawyers for civil contempt rooted in their roles in posting secretly recorded videos of abortion providers that had been barred from public release by an injunction. Judge William Orrick, however, in his sanctions order, slashed the fees requested by the Morrison & Foerster team that represented the plaintiff, the National Abortion Federation, in the suit.
By Amanda Bronstad | August 31, 2017
Floyd Mayweather's defeat over Conor McGregor wasn't the only boxing win worth talking about this past week—lawyers at O'Melveny & Myers scored a total knockout of dozens of class actions brought over a 2015 bout dubbed the “Fight of the Century.”
By Marcia Coyle | August 22, 2017
Don't call the Washington boutique shop Gupta Wessler an "anti-Trump law firm," said its founder, Deepak Gupta. A number of Trump-related policies fall squarely within the firm's core mission, he said, putting the lawyers there—an expanding group—in court in major fights against the White House.
By Scott Graham | August 3, 2017
Normally, a $10 million verdict is nothing to crow about. But Irell partner David Gindler called it an "amazing outcome" for his client considering Dutch electronics corporation Koninklijke Philips N.V. was seeking $217 million.
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