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"Let people watch the process, because they will trust it more if they can see it," says Ballard Spahr partner Leita Walker, who has represented a coalition of media outlets covering the trial of the former police officer charged in George Floyd's death.

For a big enough law firm, conflicts provide enough thorny questions in murky territory to provide a certain level of job security for firm GCs.

Three partners from Troutman Pepper, led by Goutam Patnaik, will add to the firm's presence at the International Trade Commission. Partner Justin Wilcox is relocating from New York to manage the office and step up D.C.-area recruiting.

Orrick chairman and CEO Mitch Zuklie said litigation accounts for half of the firm's matters, adding that he expects demand to pick back up as the courts reopen in 2021.

A federal judge in Indianapolis this week granted John O'Quinn's motion for a preliminary injunction finding that the government's messaging about the new program to resolve disputes over the 340B drug pricing program were "ambiguous, confusing, duplicitous, and misleading."

Runners up from Davis Wright Tremaine, Gibson Dunn, Paul Weiss, Quinn Emanuel, and a big shout out to Fisch Sigler.

Gabe Roth, the executive director of Fix the Court, writes that though the third branch says it's the most transparent when it comes to its work, it's the least transparent when it comes to the perks.

Gregory L. Curtner, an antitrust litigator at Riley Safer Holmes & Cancila who has represented the NCAA in many matters, makes the case that amateurism should survive a potentially game-changing case at the U.S. Supreme Court.

Everybody knows that breakups can be messy. But thankfully few venture into the copyright realm.

The Lit Daily checks in with four litigators whose predictions from a year ago about the types of litigation coming out of the pandemic have proven prescient, even if there's been less of it than they expected.

Wallach's departure opens the first vacancy for the Biden administration on the nation's patent appellate court. The judge plans to continue hearing Federal Circuit cases while also sitting by designation on district courts.

"For far too long, this system has inadequately represented the great diversity of Georgia and America," the state's former chief justice said. "I'm honored to lead Senators Ossoff and Warnock's Commission to bring new, different, and unique perspectives to the federal nominations process and...

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On what would have been Ruth Bader Ginsburg's 88th birthday, Justice Stephen Breyer delivered remarks to open a lecture series celebrating his late colleague at the National Judicial College. Meanwhile, a Colorado professor took to The New York Times opinion pages Monday to call on Breyer to retire...

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Chief Judge Janet DiFiore, who made the comments in a video posted on the court system website, reported there were upward of 1,200 "virtual bench trials and evidentiary and fact-finding hearings" that started last week statewide.

Liu and her colleagues recently released a white paper analyzing why the percentage of securities class actions targeting issuers based outside the U.S. jumped from 15% in 2019 to just over 27% last year even though the total number of securities suits was down.

"When we file a lawsuit on behalf of our client, the most meaningful pressure that is placed on the persons or corporations we sue is the prospect of a jury trial," said Lance Cooper.

Two months in, the Biden administration has already signaled certain departures from the Trump era on white-collar enforcement.

Benjamin Marks, who heads the intellectual property & media practice at Weil, Gotshal & Manges, convinced the Second Circuit to uphold his summary judgment win for Getty Images in a case where the company was facing potential statutory damages of $3 billion.

Quinn lands up as runner-up this week for scoring an early win in the battle over whether XRP, the cryptocurrency backed by Ripple Labs, is a security.

The ugly allegations are flying back and forth in dueling lawsuits between the founding partners of Roche Cyrulnik Freedman, a Boies Schiller Flexner spinoff. Litigators, it seems, spawn more than their fair share of litigious breakups.