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Hungry litigators on the prowl for the Next Big Thing have been talking for ages about data breach litigation. Now pending before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit is a case that’s sure to shape the data security landscape: the knock-down, drag-out, hair-pulling, eye-gouging...

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Why is lawyer rating site Avvo in a fight with an ex-cheerleader? And what's up with all the Justice-Kenendy-Might-Retire speculation? How did Simpson Thacher defeat class cert? All this and more...

Hogan Lovells partner Neal Katyal scored a game changing win in a SCOTUS case that fundamentally alters the growing practice of mass tort litigation--starting right now. How'd he do it? Hint: “It’s not like I sit in my room and read the briefs.”

As states, cities and counties pile on to sue opioid manufacturers for fueling drug addiction, it's got a familiar feeling: the suits against big tobacco.

“A classic Catch-22.” “A Hobson’s choice.” “Deeply problematic.” That’s how a dozen top law school professors describe the Trump University fraud settlement in an amicus brief. It’s a strong argument—and it may be enough to persuade the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth...

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Antitrust is not especially political. But there's a perception that Republican administrations tend to be more willing to say yes to corporate mergers. The FTC, however, just issued an emphatic “no," filing suit on Monday to block the merger of two fantasy sports sites.

Becoming a judge is supposed to be the brass ring, the crowning glory of a legal career. So what makes someone give it up to go back to private practice?

It has been an eventful spring for Williams and Connolly partner Kannon Shanmugam. In April, his wife Vicki gave birth to their third son, Henry. In May and June, the U.S. Supreme Court delivered two other bundles of joy: victories in both the cases he argued this term. "Two Supreme Court cases and...

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Twice in the past week, U.S. Senator Kamala Harris was interrupted by her male colleagues, who told the former prosecutor from California to back off aggressively questioning Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. For women litigators, it’s a depressingly...

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In some ways, winning a $26 million jury award for age discrimination in 2002 against Abbott Laboratories was the worst thing that could have happened to former sales manager David Jelinek and his legal team. Because after the verdict was reversed on appeal 12 years ago, they’ve been chasing it...

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Orrick’s Lynne Hermle, an employment law trial specialist if there ever was one, has developed something of a sub-specialty recently. For the second time in the past eight months, Hermle this week convinced a Los Angeles jury to side with Elon Musk-led SpaceX in a lawsuit brought by a disgruntled...

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It probably shouldn’t come as a surprise: CrossFit will kick your butt in court.

There’s a fine line between government settlements that promote justice and those that amount to windfalls for select non-profit organizations.

For such a frequent litigant, Donald Trump sure does stink at being a client. It’s a standard instruction, for god’s sake. Don’t talk about your case. Keep your mouth shut and let your lawyers do their thing.

Not even the former solicitor general could save a $10 billion fraud suit against Barclays Bank PLC. It was a big victory for Willkie Farr and Gallagher—and a nice illustration of why you don’t change horses in mid-stream.

Andrew Tulumello co-chairs Gibson Dunn & Crutcher’s sports law practice, so he’s familiar with the term “double play.” He pulled one off this week, bringing home two big victories for his clients, including a Supreme Court win.

It’s getting hot outside, and the lateral litigator market is heating up too. High profile real estate and IP litigators found new homes in May, with MoFo and Fried Frank among the winners.

Of all the injustices crying out to be righted, slack fill ranks pretty low. But that hasn’t stopped plaintiffs lawyers from bringing a flurry of cases against food and drug companies for under-filling their packaging, leaving empty, non-functional “slack fill” space. But not all cases are...

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When a lawsuit involves an antitrust conspiracy with nearly $1 billion on the line, when the case has been covered by media including ABC News, Time Magazine and the Associated Press, when it involves the epitome of a sexy topic—cheerleaders for god’s sake—that’s not usually when a federal...

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It's time to give judges clear rules for managing MDLs, says John Rabiej, director of Duke Law School's Center for Judicial Studies. For starters, he'd spread the biggest cases across more judges.