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Litigators of the Week: A $28M Verdict for Exonerated Member of ‘Buffalo Five’
Ross Todd
| April 11, 2025
A federal jury awarded $28 million to John Walker Jr., who spent 22 years in prison before being exonerated of a 1976 murder. He was represented at trial against Erie County by a team including Ryanne Perio of WilmerHale, Joel Rudin from The Law Offices of Joel B. Rudin P.C. and Spencer Durland of Hoover & Durland.
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Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout-Outs
Ross Todd
| April 11, 2025
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher helped non-profit online newsroom Mississippi Today fend off a lawsuit from former Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant and his wife.
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Ross Todd
| April 09, 2025
After a six-week trial in 2024, relators' counsel Pete Marketos of Reese Marketos and Sherrie Savett of Berger Montague secured treble damages of $360 million on federal False Claims Act claims against Janssen related to off-label marketing of the HIV drugs Prezista and Intelence and $1.276 billion in civil penalties.
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Last Week’s Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout-Outs
Ross Todd
| April 08, 2025
A sampling of big litigation wins that landed during the Litigator of the Week cycle that ended on April 2.
Best Practices
Nosy, Daring and Unguarded: The Case for a More Conversational Practice of Law
Rachel M. Lary and Amber N. Thompson
| April 07, 2025
Rachel Lary and Amber Thompson of Lightfoot, Franklin & White write that persuasion isn’t just about logic; it’s also about connection.
Can Solos Get 50-to-1 ROI from AI? CJ Grisham Says ‘Yes’
In a recent law.com podcast, solo practitioner CJ Grisham talks about how his AI investment has delivered him a 60% time savings and a 50-to-1 return on investment.
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Litigators of the Week: In Bet-the-Company Delaware Merger Trial, a Win for Desktop Metal
Ross Todd
| March 28, 2025
Nano Dimension agreed to purchase Desktop Metal last year before a shake-up in Nano’s board. This week, Delaware Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick found Nano didn’t live up to its "hell-or-high-water" commitment to seek certain regulatory approval of the deal, handing a win to Desktop and its lawyers at Quinn Emanuel, led by William Burck, Christopher Kercher and Peter Fountain.
Quick Takes
Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout-Outs
Ross Todd
| March 28, 2025
Runners-up this week include lawyers at Nagy Wolfe Appleton, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, and McFarland PLLC.
Analysis
New Wave of Roundup Trials Shifts Focus Out of Former Hotspot
Aleeza Furman
| March 27, 2025
After about a year of regularly turning out verdicts, the Roundup mass tort in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas hit the end of its scheduled trial lineup with no new dates on the horizon. But elsewhere, litigation over Monsanto’s weedkiller has been far from quiet.
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J. Brugh Lower of Gibbons has entered an appearance for industrial equipment supplier Devco Corporation in a pending trademark infringement lawsuit. The suit, accusing the defendant of selling knock-off Graco products, was filed Dec. 18 in New Jersey District Court by Rivkin Radler on behalf of Graco Inc. and Graco Minnesota. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Zahid N. Quraishi, is 3:24-cv-11294, Graco Inc. et al v. Devco Corporation.
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Rebecca Maller-Stein and Kent A. Yalowitz of Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer have entered their appearances for Hanaco Venture Capital and its executives, Lior Prosor and David Frankel, in a pending securities lawsuit. The action, filed on Dec. 24 in New York Southern District Court by Zell, Aron & Co. on behalf of Goldeneye Advisors, accuses the defendants of negligently and fraudulently managing the plaintiff's $1 million investment. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Vernon S. Broderick, is 1:24-cv-09918, Goldeneye Advisors, LLC v. Hanaco Venture Capital, Ltd. et al.
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Attorneys from A&O Shearman has stepped in as defense counsel for Toronto-Dominion Bank and other defendants in a pending securities class action. The suit, filed Dec. 11 in New York Southern District Court by Bleichmar Fonti & Auld, accuses the defendants of concealing the bank's 'pervasive' deficiencies in regards to its compliance with the Bank Secrecy Act and the quality of its anti-money laundering controls. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian, is 1:24-cv-09445, Gonzalez v. The Toronto-Dominion Bank et al.
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Crown Castle International, a Pennsylvania company providing shared communications infrastructure, has turned to Luke D. Wolf of Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani to fend off a pending breach-of-contract lawsuit. The court action, filed Nov. 25 in Michigan Eastern District Court by Hooper Hathaway PC on behalf of The Town Residences LLC, accuses Crown Castle of failing to transfer approximately $30,000 in utility payments from T-Mobile in breach of a roof-top lease and assignment agreement. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Susan K. Declercq, is 2:24-cv-13131, The Town Residences LLC v. T-Mobile US, Inc. et al.
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Wilfred P. Coronato and Daniel M. Schwartz of McCarter & English have stepped in as defense counsel to Electrolux Home Products Inc. in a pending product liability lawsuit. The court action, filed Nov. 26 in New York Eastern District Court by Poulos Lopiccolo PC and Nagel Rice LLP on behalf of David Stern, alleges that the defendant's refrigerators’ drawers and shelving repeatedly break and fall apart within months after purchase. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Joan M. Azrack, is 2:24-cv-08204, Stern v. Electrolux Home Products, Inc.
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