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Lawyers from Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher are mounting a full-throated defense of Evan Greebel, a former corporate partner at Katten Muchin Rosenman and Kaye Scholer who faces criminal charges in connection with his work for “pharma bro” Martin Shkreli.

If you had any doubt that 18-month-old Wilkinson Walsh + Eskovitz was here to stay as a litigation player, check out its class of seven new associates.

Litigation is rarely nice. But sometimes it’s so ugly that you just have to stop and gawk. The antitrust battle between pharmaceutical manufacturing and marketing companies Procaps SA and Patheon Inc. is one of those cases.

Forgive the tabloid headline. Venable partner J. Douglas Baldridge is actually quite discreet when discussing his famous client. But he spent last week litigating under a blinding media spotlight, with everyone from People Magazine and Inside Edition to The New York Times covering Taylor Swift’s...

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Big law firms, the ones billing Trump full-freight—can make moral decisions about whom they choose to represent, whose agenda they want to help advance. Their response to the violence in Charlottesville? Crickets...

For all the attention being paid these days to mandatory arbitration of consumer financial disputes, there’s another unlikely battleground: roof shingles. Seriously.

After President Donald Trump said there were “very fine people on both sides” of the violent clashes in Charlottesville, one of his top lawyers circulated an email equating Confederate general Robert E. Lee with George Washington and saying Black Lives Matter had been “totally infiltrated”...

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Trial was just four months away when a team from Sullivan and Cromwell led by David Tulchin and Thomas White parachuted in to save the day for medical device maker Micro System Engineering Inc.

“I’ve never seen anything like this in 37 years of practice.” That’s how Sidley Austin chair Carter Phillips describes the way his client Sprint got off the hook for a $32 million patent infringement judgment last week

It took five years for the government to decide to halt its securities fraud prosecution of international financier Benjamin Wey. But for his attorney, Haynes and Boone partner David Siegal, the problems with the feds' case were baked-in from the start.

Here are five legal stories from around the web to get your mind off whether you should start building a bomb shelter. Hello boob photos, a plaintiffs lawyer having a temper tantrum, disastrous blind dates, celebrities with herpes and poop. See, aren’t you feeling better already?

The last thing the world needs is another $1,500-an-hour white collar defense lawyer in New York City—which is why it’s so refreshing that Preet Bharara has eschewed the lucrative and predictable embrace of a law firm.

J. Douglas Baldridge, who chairs Venable’s Washington litigation group, is a highly-accomplished lawyer. But his current trial involves unique allegation—did a disc jockey fondle pop superstar Taylor Swift’s buttock?

The legal dream team representing Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington took a running leap at the hurdle of standing, filing a hard-hitting brief on Friday evening in their emoluments lawsuit against President Donald Trump.

Schiff Hardin partner Bruce Wagman has the best client list ever: birds, cats, chickens, chimpanzees, cows, deer, dogs and more. Okay, technically they’re not his clients, because, well, animals can’t hire lawyers. But Wagman has carved out a unique practice defending and improving their...

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In Stuart Newberger's legal practice, patience is essential. So when the Crowell and Moring partner logged a significant win in a terrorism suit against Sudan before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, he shrugged off the fact that it came 17 years after his clients first came to...

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Your suspicions are confirmed: commercial litigation has been on the decline for the last eight years. Who is grabbing the biggest pieces of the shrinking pie?

In late June, I wrote a column headlined “No Pressure Beth—Just $12 Billion on the Line as Containerboard Class Action Gets Closer to Trial.” The Wilkinson Walsh + Eskovitz founding partner delivered—big time.

Normally, a $10 million verdict is nothing to crow about. But Irell partner David Gindler called it an "amazing outcome" for his client considering Dutch electronics corporation Koninklijke Philips N.V. was seeking $217 million.

The combined firm would have been a slightly terrifying, 1,000-litigator juggernaut. But that's not why I'm glad to hear they're not merging.