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The pandemic fueled an unprecedented surge of cooperation between state courts. Federal court officials, meanwhile, have been deliberating how to address future emergencies.

The Department of Justice has signaled that criminal monopolization cases could be on the horizon. In this week's episode, Axinn's Tiffany Rider illustrated what such a case could entail.

After nearly five weeks of trial, a state court jury in Manhattan sided with Brooklyn Gas Co., represented by Ben Razi, Gretchen Hoff Varner and Mike Lechliter of Covington & Burling, in a dispute over claims for pollution cleanup costs.

Roberto Finzi and Richard Tarlowe of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison and Justin Weddle of Weddle Law secured a plea deal for their clients, Anilesh "Neil" Ahuja, the founder and former CEO of hedge fund Premium Point Investments and former trader PPI trader Jeremy Shor that resulted in no...

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Kirkland donated about 5,300 hours to an investigation by the Minnesota Department of Human Rights following the murder of George Floyd. The state's civil rights enforcer announced Wednesday it found Minneapolis and its police department engaged in "a pattern or practice of race discrimination" in...

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2021 was a banner year for the Am Law 100. But will Big Law litigation departments feel the squeeze in its wake?

In the core team of 20 lawyers in the firm's product liability and mass torts practice, Sidley reports 90% of the partners are women as well as more than 80% of associates.

Lawyers at Morgan Lewis and Wilmer represent the Denver-based dialysis company and a team from Winston & Strawn, Fish & Richardson and McDermott represent former CEO Kent Thiry. A federal jury this week acquitted the defendants on all counts of conspiring with three companies run by DaVita alumni...

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A team of Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath intellectual property litigators led by partners David Gross and Chad Drown won a defense verdict for Seagate after a two-week patent infringement trial.

Retired Alston & Bird trial lawyer Michael Kenny discusses his debut novel "Life's Illusions," which follows the life and career path of a fictional Big Law trial lawyer.

Effective cross-examination involves story-telling and comparison and contrast, says Walkup, Melodia, Kelly & Schoenberger partner Doris Cheng.

The process, admittedly, is not without its flaws. But there are some things that you can do to help it run better.

Welcome to another edition of our Litigation Leaders series, featuring the litigation practice leaders of the biggest and most innovative firms in

Federal prosecutors announced late last month that after a second mistrial in their criminal case against 10 executives at poultry companies they were dismissing all charges against half the defendants.

Our runners-up at Hueston Hennigan landed a $175 million damages award against VPX, the maker of the "Bang" energy drink, after an arbitrator found it doesn't contain creatine.

"I'll suggest to you that you are not trying to persuade the jury any less in opening statements than you are in closing arguments. It's just that you have to do so within the confines of the rules of evidence and the rules of procedure and the rules of ethics," says Chicago trial lawyer Dan Kotin.

The multi-firm, all-star approach to staffing multidistrict and mass torts cases may not be a panacea, but it's got its upsides — especially for litigators who aren't afraid to share the credit.

With two weeks' worth of results in the running this week, we're stretching out the shout outs over a couple of columns to give everyone their due.

Chief U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Mildred Cabán of Puerto Rico and retired Minnesota state court Judge Kevin Burke say their colleagues on the bench could benefit from coaching and time in the film room.

After a three week trial in federal court, jurors sided with Arnold & Porter's Tim Macdonald and Matthew Douglas, and Loevy & Loevy's Elizabeth Wang in finding police officers used excessive force against their clients during protests after the 2020 killing of George Floyd.