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A Couple of Cases for Learning to Communicate Across the Divide
In the face of increasing turmoil on law school campuses, organizers of a program aimed at teaching law students how to effectively communicate across differences are increasing its reach.In Smaller Litigation Shops, New Partners Emphasize a Focus on Trial Skills
Four newly-minted boutique partners who participated in Law.com's "How I Made It" series over the past year highlight the striking amount of practice diversity out there in smaller firms.Litigators of the Week: A Bankruptcy Win for Sandy Hook Families Against Alex Jones
Lawyers for families of those killed in the 2012 school shooting won rulings finding that litigation debts Jones accrued through "willful and malicious injury" to their clients cannot be discharged through bankruptcy.Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout Outs
Runners-up honors go to a team at Skadden for knocking out antitrust claims against hoteliers alleging they conspired to adopt algorithmic pricing for rooms on the Las Vegas strip.Sullivan & Cromwell's Renata Hesse on Being a 'Worthy Adversary' to Antitrust Regulators
"You try to do the best job you can to really engage and answer the agency's questions," says Hesse, the co-head of the firm's antitrust practice and a former acting head of the Justice Department's Antitrust Division. "But you also recognize that there may come a point where we're just going to have to agree to disagree."View more book results for the query "*"
Are Litigators at a Disadvantage When It Comes to Rainmaking Traits?
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.Why Sentencing Is Any Judge's Toughest Assignment
Retired Eleventh Circuit Judge Beverly Martin and Washington Supreme Court Chief Justice Steven González discussed the challenges facing trial court judges in balancing the dual aims of punishment and rehabilitation during sentencing.Litigation Leaders: Ali Cunningham of Hunton Andrews Kurth on Keeping in Mind It's the Client's Case
"We work to understand the client's goals and risk tolerance to formulate a litigation plan that meets the client's case-specific and long-term objectives from the very beginning. In some instances that may mean aggressively fighting every battle along the way, and in others it may mean finding a strategic path to an early resolution."Litigators of the Week: Irell Duo Lands Another Big West Texas Win, This Time $240M for StreamScale
A trial team led by Jason Sheasby and Lisa Glasser of Irell & Manella convinced jurors in Waco, Texas that Cloudera infringed three StreamScale patents related to technology used to efficiently store data.Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout Outs
Our first runner-up this week is White & Case partner Jonathan Lamberson who took the lead for Chilisin Electronics Corp. at the Federal Circuit in…