Legionnaires’ Disease Is Back, and Litigation Is Hitting Courts | Daily Business Review Page Printed From: https://www.law.com/dailybusinessreview/2024/04/19/legionnaires-disease-is-back-and-litigation-is-hitting-courts/ L-R: Eric Shane and Ira Leesfield of Leesfield & Partners and David B. Haber of Haber Law. (Courtesy photos) “It’s making a comeback,” attorney Eric Shane of Leesfield & Partners said. April 19,…

How I Made Practice Group Chair: ‘There Must Be Room for Both Expertise and Specialization,’ Says Brendan Johnson of Robins Kaplan | Law.com Page Printed From: https://www.law.com/2024/04/19/how-i-made-practice-group-chair-there-must-be-room-for-both-expertise-and-specialization-says-brendan-johnson-of-robins-kaplan/ Brendan V. Johnson of Robins Kaplan. Courtesy photo Q&A “Clients expect a high level of expertise, and that is important. But too often…

After a new trial was ordered, McKool Smith and Irell & Manella LLP secured a $142 million patent damages verdict against Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. The jury verdict, announced Wednesday, occurred on the third day of trial before Judge Rodney Gilstrap in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of…

First up, are litigators at Kirkland & Ellis and Jones Day who won a defense summary judgment ruling in the first four bellwether cases scheduled for trial in the paraquat multidistrict litigation. Chief U.S. District Judge Nancy Rosenstengel in East St. Louis, Illinois, who is overseeing the paraquat MDL, found…

Happy Friday, and welcome to another roundup of the week’s news about the judiciary. This week, I spoke to a few attorneys and a former judge about what the long-term impact could be of the decline in jury trials and, presumably, appeals stemming from jury verdicts. Fewer Jury Trial Verdicts…

A number of top firms including Latham & Watkins, Reed Smith, Shoosmiths, DLA Piper and Ashurst are advising as the U.S.’s Apollo-backed Concord Chorus Group takes private the embattled London Stock Exchange-listed music investor Hipgnosis, in yet another blow to the U.K’s premium stock market. Concord, which has agreed to acquire…