Even though the Florida state court judge who oversaw last November's trial blamed the tobacco company's lawyers for tactics that prompted the jury's outsized verdict, he said he'd cut it.

Over the strenuous objections of Judge Denny Chin, the full Second Circuit on Tuesday refused to revisit broadcasters' claims that Aereo's upstart streaming TV service is a flagrant exercise in copyright infringement.

After an eight-year odyssey through the California courts, San Francisco antitrust lawyer Joseph Alioto may have finally reached the end of the line in a sprawling price-fixing case against Big Pharma.

With the announcement that he's Dechert's chairman-elect, Levander joins the select club of active litigators in charge of diversified Am Law 100 firms.

After initially seeking $138 million from all defendants, shareholders settle for $8.5 million from Deloitte defendants and $6.5 million from Grant Thornton International.

DuPont agreed Tuesday to shell out at least $1.75 billion to resolve its patent and antitrust battle with Monsanto Company over genetically engineered seeds--a battle that has already resulted in a $1 billion jury verdict against DuPont, as well as a bruising sanctions order against the chemical giant.