There's a reason Lumish has been a hot ticket lately on the lateral market: In his first trial since joining Latham in May, the IP litigator knocked out patent claims against TransPerfect Translation International that had threatened to derail the company's business, leaving his adversaries saddled with a $1 million damages award instead.

Four years after the Supreme Court landed the second part of its one-two punch in Twombly and Iqbal, we caught up with the lawyer whose civil rights case on behalf of a Pakistani detainee ultimately changed the face of pleading-stage litigation.

In a dispute that provides a case study in patent litigation after the enactment of the America Invents Act, lawyers for a patent holder suing major tech firms are fighting to get cases that were sent to the defendants' home jurisdictions transferred back to the Eastern District of Texas—but this time designated as multidistrict litigation.

Lyle W. Cayce ClerkBefore KING, GARWOOD, and DAVIS, Circuit Judges.Plaintiff-appellant Tran Enterprises LLC, doing business as Nutrition Depot, entered into contracts with defendant-appellee