Trials

  • May 19, 2025

    FTC Owes Publisher Fees For Failed 'Deceptive' Tactics Case

    The Federal Trade Commission has to pay attorney fees to a newsletter and law book publisher it took to court in an unsuccessful suit over alleged "deceptive" tactics used to sell subscriptions, with a Pennsylvania federal judge ruling that the government's case wasn't justified.

  • May 19, 2025

    Investment Adviser Seeks Cadwalader Notes In Fraud Case

    An investment manager who used to be represented by U.S. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche when Blanche was a partner at Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP has asked a Brooklyn federal judge to order the firm to turn over documents that he called "critical" to his defense on fraud and money laundering charges.

  • May 19, 2025

    Judge Sets February Trial Date In Bribery Case Of Coal Exec

    A Pennsylvania federal judge on Monday set a February trial date for a coal executive charged with bribing foreign officials for business, with jury selection beginning Feb. 3 and opening statements taking place Feb. 9.

  • May 19, 2025

    Avenatti Rips 'Draconian' Bid To Add 13 Years To Sentence

    Former high-profile attorney Michael Avenatti asked a California federal judge to reject the government's request to tack on more than 13 years to his prison term, saying such a "draconian" result would conflict with a Ninth Circuit ruling wiping out a previous sentence in the fraud case.

  • May 19, 2025

    2 Menendez Associates Must Await Appeal Behind Bars

    The Second Circuit rejected bids by two of the businessmen convicted of bribing ex-U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez to avoid prison pending their appeal on a blockbuster corruption conviction.

  • May 16, 2025

    Capital One Inks $425M Deal In Savers' 'High-Interest' Suit

    Capital One has agreed to pay $425 million to put to rest a proposed class action alleging that it deceptively advertised its 360 Savings accounts as high-interest savings products, according to a joint notice filed Friday in Virginia federal court.

  • May 16, 2025

    J&J Unit Hit With $147M Verdict In Catheter Antitrust Suit

    A California federal jury found Friday that Johnson & Johnson's medical technology unit Biosense Webster violated federal and state antitrust laws by withholding clinical support to hospitals using third-party reprocessed catheters, awarding plaintiff Innovative Health more than $147 million in damages.

  • May 16, 2025

    Fla. Gov. Says He Will Veto Bill To Expand Death Damages

    Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has said he will veto a bill recently passed by Florida lawmakers to repeal a statute limiting pain-and-suffering damages in fatal medical malpractice cases, saying a veto will prevent a flood of lawsuits against healthcare providers.

  • May 16, 2025

    SEC X Account Hack Conspirator Gets 14 Months

    An Alabama man was sentenced in D.C. federal court Friday to 14 months behind bars for his role in last year's hack of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's account on the social platform X to post a bogus development in the agency's cryptocurrency policy.

  • May 16, 2025

    Epic Tells Jury Fortnite Concerts Weren't Patent Infringement

    Epic Games urged a Seattle jury on Friday to reject allegations that it committed patent infringement when it staged interactive concerts in the Fortnite virtual world starring pop artist Ariana Grande and rapper Travis Scott, contending the accuser has mischaracterized the technology used in the events.

  • May 16, 2025

    'Tuna Bond' Defendants Ordered To Pay $352M In Restitution

    A Brooklyn federal judge ordered three former Credit Suisse bankers and the former finance minister of Mozambique to pay a combined $352 million in restitution Friday after they pled guilty or were convicted of scheming to defraud investors in a $2 billion state-backed development initiative involving tuna fishing.

  • May 16, 2025

    Families Rip DOJ Bid To Ditch Boeing 737 Max Criminal Case

    The U.S. Department of Justice might back down from criminally prosecuting Boeing over the deadly 737 Max crashes and save the American aerospace giant from a high-profile trial in Texas next month under a tentative deal that attorneys for crash victims' families decried Friday as offensive and "morally repugnant."

  • May 16, 2025

    Western Digital Agrees To End Patent Suit After $262M Verdict

    Data storage giant Western Digital and MR Technologies told a California federal judge Friday they agreed to end a patent dispute that last summer had put Western Digital on the hook for $262.4 million in damages to MR Technologies for infringing patents for increasing storage capacity on disk drives.

  • May 16, 2025

    Feds Say Con Man Galanis Can't Recoup $2M Despite Clemency

    Prosecutors have asked a New York federal judge to deny a request from convicted fraudster Jason Galanis to recoup $2.17 million he paid in criminal fines, after his nearly 16-year prison sentence was commuted by President Donald Trump.

  • May 16, 2025

    Lin Wood's Ex-Partners Awarded $11M Over Firm Split

    Ex-attorney L. Lin Wood must pay his former law partners more than $11 million in a long-running fee dispute stemming from the breakup of their firm, an Atlanta jury has said, less than a year after Wood was ordered to pay his former partners $4.5 million in a related federal defamation trial.

  • May 16, 2025

    NJ, DuPont To Face Off In Landmark PFAS Trial Series

    New Jersey and chemical manufacturing giant E.I. DuPont de Nemours will square off Monday over the contamination at a former Salem County manufacturing facility in a first-of-a-kind series of trials that environmental attorneys expect will impact "forever chemicals" litigation across the country.

  • May 16, 2025

    Nadine Menendez Gets 3-Month Delay Of Bribery Sentencing

    A federal judge in Manhattan on Friday granted Nadine Menendez's bid for a three-month delay of her sentencing on bribery charges, but he said he would not postpone it any further.

  • May 16, 2025

    1st Circ. Rejects Appeals By Trio Of 'Varsity Blues' Parents

    The First Circuit has upheld the guilty pleas of three parents in the "Varsity Blues" college admissions scheme, finding that a past ruling in the long-running case undercut their bids to unwind the convictions.

  • May 16, 2025

    RV Camp Part-Owner Wins Battle In Ongoing Ownership Fight

    The North Carolina Business Court ruled that the part-owner of an RV and cabin campsite did not actually transfer her interest in the individual units at that camp to a development company she helped create before her relationship with that firm and her business partners soured.

  • May 16, 2025

    1MDB Prosecutors Seek Leniency For Ex-Goldman Banker

    Prosecutors asked a Manhattan federal judge for leniency when sentencing a former Goldman Sachs partner who cooperated in the investigation into the 1MDB scandal and testified at his former colleague's trial, citing his "extraordinary" assistance.

  • May 15, 2025

    J&J Unit's Economist Rips Rival's $147M Antitrust Damage Bid

    Biosense Webster's economic expert took the stand Thursday in California federal court to criticize Innovative Health's claim it suffered $147 million in damages from Biosense's policy withholding clinical support to hospitals using third-party reprocessed catheters, arguing Innovative lost nothing and saved on clinical support costs it otherwise would've incurred.

  • May 15, 2025

    $666M Pipeline Verdict 'Poster Child' For Reduction, Judge Told

    Lawyers for Greenpeace urged a North Dakota state judge Thursday to significantly reduce a $666 million verdict over claims that it falsely disparaged the Dakota Access pipeline amid environmental protests, with the jury having awarded ten times more on certain claims than even the pipeline's builder wanted.

  • May 15, 2025

    TikTok's Friends Features 'Set Off Alarm Bells' At Facebook

    The head of Facebook echoed the testimony of other Meta Platforms Inc. executives who've described TikTok as their chief competitor on Thursday, pushing back against Federal Trade Commission monopolization claims by arguing in D.C. federal court that both social media giants have responded to competition from the other.

  • May 15, 2025

    DC's Amazon Antitrust Trial To Be Bumped Deeper Into 2027

    The District of Columbia's antitrust suit accusing Amazon of not allowing sellers to offer their products for less on other platforms will probably not make it to trial until closer to mid-2027, after the parties told a D.C. judge Thursday that the original January 2027 trial date would have to be moved back.

  • May 15, 2025

    Spinal Implant Co. CEO Pleads Guilty Ahead Of Kickback Trial

    The head of a Massachusetts medical device company pled guilty Thursday to a false statements charge days before he was set to face a jury over claims that he and another executive bribed surgeons with sham consulting deals to get them to use the company's spinal implants.

Expert Analysis

  • Using Primacy And Recency Effects In Opening Statements

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    By understanding and strategically employing the primacy and recency effects in opening statements, attorneys can significantly enhance their persuasive impact, ensuring that their narrative is both compelling and memorable from the outset, says Bill Kanasky at Courtroom Sciences.

  • Litigation Inspiration: Honoring Your Learned Profession

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    About 30,000 people who took the bar exam in July will learn they passed this fall, marking a fitting time for all attorneys to remember that they are members in a specialty club of learned professionals — and the more they can keep this in mind, the more benefits they will see, says Bennett Rawicki at Hilgers Graben.

  • Opinion

    AI May Limit Key Learning Opportunities For Young Attorneys

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    The thing that’s so powerful about artificial intelligence is also what’s most scary about it — its ability to detect patterns may curtail young attorneys’ chance to practice the lower-level work of managing cases, preventing them from ever honing the pattern recognition skills that undergird creative lawyering, says Sarah Murray at Trialcraft.

  • Antitrust Issues To Watch Amid Google Ad Tech Trial

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    Regardless of the outcome of the U.S. Department of Justice's advertising technology antitrust suit against Google in Virginia federal court, matters ranging from market definition to unified pricing will likely have far-reaching implications for the digital advertising industry, competition and innovation, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.

  • 6 Tips For Trying Cases Away From Home

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    A truly national litigation practice, by definition, often requires trying cases in jurisdictions across the country, which presents unique challenges that require methodical preparation and coordination both within the trial team and externally, say Edward Bennett and Suzanne Salgado at Williams & Connolly.

  • How NLRB Memo Balances Schools' Labor, Privacy Concerns

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    Natale DiNatale at Robinson & Cole highlights the recent National Labor Relations Board advice memorandum that aims to help colleges reconcile competing obligations under the National Labor Relations Act and the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act as university students flock toward unionization.

  • A Blueprint For Structuring An Effective Plaintiff Case Story

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    The number and size of nuclear verdicts continue to rise, in part because plaintiffs attorneys have become more adept at crafting compelling trial stories — and an analysis of these success stories reveals a 10-part framework for structuring an effective case narrative, says Jonathan Ross at Decision Analysis.

  • Series

    Round-Canopy Parachuting Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Similar to the practice of law, jumping from an in-flight airplane with nothing but training and a few yards of parachute silk is a demanding and stressful endeavor, and the experience has bolstered my legal practice by enhancing my focus, teamwork skills and sense of perspective, says Thomas Salerno at Stinson.

  • Boeing Ruling Is A Cautionary Tale For Trade Secret Litigants

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    A Washington federal court’s recent ruling canceling a $72 million jury award against Boeing because Zunum Aero had failed to properly identify its trade secrets highlights the value of an early statement of alleged secrets, amended through discovery and used as a framework at trial, says Matthew D'Amore at Cornell.

  • Why Now Is The Time For Law Firms To Hire Lateral Partners

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    Partner and associate mobility data from the second quarter of this year suggest that there's never been a better time in recent years for law firms to hire lateral candidates, particularly experienced partners — though this necessitates an understanding of potential red flags, say Julie Henson and Greg Hamman at Decipher Investigative Intelligence.

  • Google And The Next Frontier Of Divestiture Antitrust Remedy

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    The possibility of a large-scale divestiture in the Google search case comes on the heels of recent requests of business breakups as remedies for anticompetitive conduct, and companies should prepare for the likelihood that courts may impose divestiture remedies in the event of a liability finding, say Lauren Weinstein and Nathaniel Rubin at MoloLamken.

  • Considering Possible PR Risks Of Certain Legal Tactics

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    Disney and American Airlines recently abandoned certain litigation tactics in two lawsuits after fierce public backlash, illustrating why corporate counsel should consider the reputational implications of any legal strategy and partner with their communications teams to preempt public relations concerns, says Chris Gidez at G7 Reputation Advisory.

  • It's No Longer Enough For Firms To Be Trusted Advisers

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    Amid fierce competition for business, the transactional “trusted adviser” paradigm from which most firms operate is no longer sufficient — they should instead aim to become trusted partners with their most valuable clients, says Stuart Maister at Strategic Narrative.

  • 5 Credibility Lessons Trial Attys Can Learn From Harris' Run

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    In launching a late-stage campaign for president, Vice President Kamala Harris must seize upon fresh attention from voters to establish, or reestablish, credibility — a challenge that parallels and provides takeaways for trial attorneys, says Ken Broda-Bahm at Persuasion Strategies.

  • Court Denial Of $335M UFC Deal Sets Bold Antitrust Precedent

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    A Nevada federal court’s recent refusal to accept a $335 million deal between Ultimate Fighting Championship and a group of former fighters to settle claims of anticompetitive conduct was a rare decision that risks the floodgates opening on established antitrust case law, says Mohit Pasricha at Lawrence Stephens.

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