By Adam Feldman and Mary-Christine Sungaila | February 29, 2024
Comparing the current distributions of male and female judges in both the federal court of appeals and state courts of last resort.
By Ross Todd | November 16, 2023
Meghan Kelly and Bill Oxley, the leaders of the complex litigation and dispute resolution practice at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, discuss the results of a survey of more than 1,000 potential jurors in venues yielding big verdicts.
By Ross Todd | October 25, 2023
A new study released last week dubbed "The Rainmaker Genome Project" identified five different categories of business developers. The one with the highest percentage of high performers and the lowest percentage of low performers didn't sound like many litigators we know.
By Ross Todd | January 13, 2021
The percentage of civil cases tried to a jury verdict decreased from about 5.5% in 1962 to 0.8% by 2013 and from about 8.2% to 3.6% in criminal cases over the same period. According to a new study, that's bad news for "deliberative democracy" in the U.S.
By Ross Todd | July 15, 2020
Vanderbilt Law professor Terry Maroney has proposed a new "psycho-legal theory" of judicial temperament as an alternative to the current folk wisdom on the topic.
By Amanda Bronstad | July 6, 2020
According to Law.com research, women made up 40% of lawyers leading four or more MDLs created from 2016 to 2019. Although most of the top firms remain the same, some have spread out appointments to several lawyers, including women. "These are badass attorneys who are also women," said Mike Morgan, of Morgan & Morgan.
By Amanda Bronstad | January 21, 2020
According to NERA Economic Consulting's annual report, released on Tuesday, six lawsuits alleged securities fraud against cannabis companies. There was only one in 2018.
By Amanda Bronstad | September 20, 2019
The report comes as new federal rules have encouraged electronic notices in class action settlements. But the report found that email notices had a lower claims rate than did traditional materials sent in the mail.
By Amanda Bronstad | March 26, 2019
Cornerstone Research's annual report also found that average settlement values rose, with many of them landing between $10 million and $48 million last year.
By Amanda Bronstad | January 29, 2019
White Plains-based NERA Economic Consulting's annual report also found that aggregate investor losses totaled $939 billion in 2018 -- a sign of a “systematic shift toward larger filings.”
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