By Ross Todd | September 6, 2024
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.
By Ross Todd | August 30, 2024
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.
By Ross Todd | August 23, 2024
David Zionts of Covington & Burling argued for Monsanto at the Third Circuit in a case where the court held that the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act preempted plaintiffs' failure-to-warn claims brought under Pennsylvania state law. The decision splits with the Ninth and Eleventh Circuits, which rejected Monsanto's preemption arguments in earlier Roundup cases.
By Charles Toutant | August 22, 2024
Jason Mills of Morgan Lewis anticipates that proposed rules to protect workers from the heat will generate strong opposition and legal challenges to them might end up before the U.S. Supreme Court.
By Ross Todd | August 19, 2024
Siegel, who joined Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer more than 15 years ago to help start its white-collar practice in the U.S., says the words "commercial," "creativity," "collegiality" and "cross-border" are "core" to the firm's litigation department.
By Ross Todd | August 16, 2024
U.S. District Judge James Robart in Seattle found that the plaintiff, the now-defunct Zunum Aero Inc., hadn't adequately identified its alleged trade secrets nor shown that Boeing had interfered with its dealings with other potential investors, handing a win to John Hueston and Moez Kaba of Hueston Hennigan.
By Ross Todd | August 14, 2024
Beth Wilkinson, Brian Stekloff and Rakesh Kilaru of Wilkinson Stekloff and John Playforth of Covington & Burling secured a ruling from a federal judge in Los Angeles excluding the plaintiffs' experts and knocking out the jury's damages calculation.
By Ross Todd | August 12, 2024
Hall says that perhaps a generalist approach to litigation works at firms where litigators mostly support larger transactional practices. "But at Covington, our litigation practice is a huge driver of new client work and relationships," he said.
By Ross Todd | August 2, 2024
Josh Rosenkranz, Eric Shumsky and Chris Cariello of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe secured a ruling from a Virginia appellate court that wiped out a $2 billion trade secret damages verdict facing Massachusetts software company Pegasystems Inc.
By Ross Todd | July 26, 2024
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.
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