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Lawsuits related to special purpose acquisition companies will have many similarities to traditional securities and M&A litigation, but will also develop their own rubrics given the unique features of the SPAC model, writes Stephen Blake of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett.

Progressives are calling on the Biden administration to expand the pool of potential federal judicial nominees beyond the Am Law 200 partners and prosecutors who have routinely filled vacancies during the Obama and Trump administrations.

In the wake of a big trade secret win at the Commission for electric car battery maker LG Energy Solutions, Latham's David Callahan and Bert Reiser discuss how parties are harnessing the protections of the Defend Trade Secrets Act at the ITC.

"We have right now the same number of judge positions we did in '79. It's a completely transformed judiciary in terms of the volume of cases, volume of business, the population," Judge Amy Totenberg said. "The prospect of being able to actually add judges and have very much active senior judges is...

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Catherine Amirfar and Ina Popova of Debevoise & Plimpton on Monday secured a complete defense win in a bilateral investment treaty arbitration brought by Agility Public Warehousing Company.

Death penalty vacated: Check. Antitrust precedent set: Check. Former LOTW verdict flipped: Check.

U.S. District Senior Judge Marsha Pechman in Seattle says the pandemic has forced the federal judiciary to try cases in Quonset huts, gymnasiums and, at least in her court, virtually in jurors' homes. "We should be thankful that the American public is willing to invite us in," she says.

Austin, Texas trial lawyer Carl Guthrie suspects remote jurors expect virtual trials to be "instantaneous" much like the medium used to present them.

Pomerantz is on leave from the firm to work as a special assistant district attorney.

The unusual faceoff between current and former Hogan Lovells partners began with good luck wishes from Neal Katyal and ended with high praise for the "junior" advocate, now-Assistant to the U.S. Solicitor General Colleen Sinzdak.

While 75% of the 13,000 class members—mostly young people from abroad who have provided live-in childcare to families in the U.S.—have been able to cash checks, the undeposited checks that remain outstanding average almost $1,850.

Chu told a Western District of Texas jury Monday that "nearly a billion" Intel processors infringe his client's two patents. But he hasn't given jurors a number, yet. Wilmer's William Lee said the right number is zero for VLSI's "imaginary products."

In a high-profile case where Kirkland teamed with the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights, Mike Jones says that courtroom advocacy was sharpened by presentations made to newspaper editorial boards and legislators.

Adam Abensohn, Benjamin Finestone and Robert Loigman grabbed headlines this week in the case spinning out of a nearly billion dollar blunder that rocked the finance world.

Latham & Watkins scored a huge win at the ITC in a trade secret showdown over electric vehicle batteries.

A Northern California attorney who accused three Sacramento appellate justices of allowing cases to languish for years has asked the state Supreme Court to transfer dozens of matters from the Third District to other appellate districts.

Armed with heartbreaking security footage, a toxicology report and testimony from witnesses around the country, jurors had to decide whether the former Tampa attorney died accidentally or by suicide.

Should Rudy Giuliani be disciplined for his conduct relating to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capital and his participation in frivolous lawsuits?

You can hardly blame Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy founder Joe Cotchett for trying the catch-more-flies-with-honey approach.

The order from U.S. District Judge Alison J. Nathan of the Southern District of New York, followed a blistering September opinion that took to task the Manhattan U.S. Attorney's Office for making "countless" belated disclosures to lawyers representing Ali Sadr Hashemi Nejad before, during and after...

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