The Litigation Daily RSS

"It is uncommon for us to have 'one-off' matters with different firms," says Bauer, an in-house litigation expert at the nation's largest shipbuilder. "Instead, we focus on building relationships with our outside counsel so they become extensions of our law department."

"With the option of doing depositions in person or virtually, legal teams and their clients now have the option of considering which approach will offer the greatest strategic advantages," writes Avi Stadler, the general counsel of Esquire Deposition Solutions.

Dan Drosman and Tor Gronborg of Robbins Geller and Lance Oliver of Motley Rice secured a nine-digit settlement from Twitter in a case accusing two former executives of making misleading statements about user metrics.

Latham leads the way this week with a rare acquittal for a former CEO who went to trial on criminal fraud charges.

A judge at the U.S. Court of Federal Claims last week granted Quinn Emanuel's request for 5% of $3.7 billion in judgments scored for health insurers owed payments under the Affordable Care Act. Arguments first put forward by the Quinn lawyers led to $12 billion in recoveries industry-wide.

Isaza Tuzman, who was arrested in Colombia on a U.S. fraud warrant, was sexually assaulted while in custody. U.S. District Judge Paul Gardephe took Isaza Tuzman's PTSD into account at sentencing, saying "the government had a moral obligation to do everything in its power to ensure his safety."

Comments from the bench seemed to question assertions by Randy Mastro of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher that the new measure was at odds with a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last month, which scrapped an earlier iteration that allowed tenants to self-certify that they had suffered financial hardship.

Matthew Martino, the first member of his family to graduate college, regularly tells first-generation recruits about his background during interviews: "You can see them relax a bit. Then the interview becomes a lot more organic."

Just months off of a year-plus-long deployment centered on helping California fight COVID-19 and wildfires, National Guard Colonel Jesse Miller is gearing up for an in-person trial.

Runners-up this week include litigation teams from Cooley; Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher; Kirkland & Ellis and Goldman Ismail Tomaselli Brennan & Baum.

Rich Doren and Veronica Moyé of Gibson Dunn and Karen Dunn of Paul Weiss led Apple's trial team against Epic Games in the hotly contested antitrust challenge to its App Store business model.

Jury selection is set for Monday in a rare securities class action trial involving plaintiffs counsel at Robbins Geller and Motley Rice and defense counsel at Cooley and Simpson Thacher.

"We felt that with an analysis of the types of things that were contributing to the decline, that we might actually have an opportunity to reverse it," says Cornell Law School Professor Valerie Hans, the lead author of a new white paper aimed at rejuvenating civil jury trials in the U.S.

"In cases involving export-controlled technology and potential national security concerns, it makes sense to rely on the federal government despite countervailing concerns about delay and impact on the civil case," says Little, in the wake of a former employee's conviction on 11 federal trade...

Read the whole entry... »

"Our lawyers are expert in the craft of establishing and reinforcing narratives and themes, and in the art of witness presentation—and, together, those are the key ingredients for achieving victory for our clients," says Hallie Levin, who co-chairs the trial practice at Wilmer Cutler...

Read the whole entry... »

Sozi Tulante secured a precedent-setting victory for B.C., an asylum-seeker from Cameroon, in an immigration appeal centering on B.C.'s primary language, Pidgin English, and the need for an interpreter.

A pair of plaintiffs' teams kick off the runners-up in what turned out to be a rough week in the courts for Boeing and its 737 MAX 8 partners.

I think I'm wrapping my head around the epic media line. Now those three Holmes' "fans" dressed in black? That's an entirely separate question.

Despite the company's argument that Section 230 shielded it from liability for sex trafficking claims stemming from underage content uploaded by others, a Southern California judge let the proposed class action move forward.

Chief Judge Janet DiFiore noted that many other employers, both public and private, have also started requiring the COVID-19 vaccine or announced that they will.