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  • April 10, 2025

    Paying Senator Directly Would Have Been 'Funky,' Jury Hears

    A former red-light camera executive serving as the government's star witness in an Illinois senator's bribery trial acknowledged Thursday that only he raised concerns about keeping their relationship private and concealing financial payments so they wouldn't look "funky" to the public.

  • April 10, 2025

    Pa. Court, University Partner To Offer Juror Counseling

    Philadelphia's jury commissioner told a National Center for State Courts audience this week that his efforts to provide post-trial mental health support for jurors came to fruition when he was able to partner with a university.

  • April 10, 2025

    11th Circ. Says 'Bombshell' Producer Stuck With $19M Verdict

    The Eleventh Circuit on Thursday backed a Florida jury's $19 million-plus verdict against a Canadian film producer known for the movie "Bombshell" over an investor's claims the producer defrauded him out of millions of dollars meant to fund several TV productions.

  • April 10, 2025

    1st Circ. Asked To Save $34M Fee Bid In JetBlue-Spirit Case

    Passengers who launched an antitrust challenge to the since-scrapped JetBlue-Spirit Airlines merger have asked the First Circuit to revive their bid to collect up to $34 million in legal fees, insisting that they paved the way for the deal to be blocked, so they should be declared the "prevailing party."

  • April 10, 2025

    Soulja Boy's Ex-Assistant Wins $4.25M At Trial Over Abuse

    A jury in California state court held Thursday that the rapper known as Soulja Boy must pay $4.25 million for physically and sexually abusing his live-in personal assistant for nearly two years, according to the plaintiff's counsel.

  • April 10, 2025

    Albright Sends VLSI-Intel Licensing Question To Trial

    A Texas federal jury must determine whether VLSI Technology is controlled by Fortress Investment Group before a judge can then decide whether Intel Corp.'s license with a Fortress affiliate extends to VLSI's patents, U.S. District Judge Alan Albright ruled Thursday.

  • April 10, 2025

    Israel's NSO Faces April Damages Trial For WhatsApp Hacking

    A California federal judge on Thursday nailed down details of an April 28 jury trial to determine the amount of damages Israeli spyware-maker NSO Group owes Meta for hacking into 1,400 WhatsApp users' devices, refusing to seal the proceedings and expressing frustration at the amount of discovery withheld by the parties, particularly NSO.

  • April 10, 2025

    Mass. Officials, Feds On A 'Low Boil' After Midtrial ICE Arrest

    The midtrial immigration arrest of a Dominican national during his Massachusetts court case has raised tensions between federal and state prosecutors and threatens to injure cooperation between the offices, experts say.

  • April 10, 2025

    Ga. Panel Signals Toddler Death Testimony Best Left To Jury

    The Georgia Court of Appeals appeared unpersuaded Thursday by a pediatrician's bid to toss a $4 million medical malpractice verdict she was hit with for allegedly misdiagnosing a toddler's ingestion of a battery that later killed him, doubting her efforts to undermine the testimony of one of the family's key experts.

  • April 10, 2025

    Ex-EBay Execs Want To Question Key Stalking Case Witness

    Three former eBay executives facing claims they helped direct a campaign to harass bloggers critical of the company have told a Massachusetts federal judge they want to question a key witness about his past role as an undercover government agent.

  • April 10, 2025

    Colo. Supreme Court Rejects Fire Plaintiffs' Trial Opt-Out Bid

    The Colorado Supreme Court has declined to hear a challenge to a judge's plan for a single liability trial on thousands of consolidated claims alleging Xcel Energy and two telecom companies are responsible for a 2021 wildfire.

  • April 10, 2025

    6th Circ. Backs Ford In Race, Sexual Harassment Suit

    The Sixth Circuit declined to scrap a jury win for Ford Motor Co. in a Black ex-employee's suit claiming she was sexually assaulted and racially harassed on the job, ruling the verdict lined up with a lack of evidence that Ford could have stopped the alleged mistreatment sooner.

  • April 10, 2025

    Meta Trial Rooted In Decade-Old WhatsApp, Instagram Buys

    Federal Trade Commission lawyers are set for a trial Monday that will assess the exact scope of competition that Meta Platform's offerings face providing personal social media services and the reach of monopolization allegations targeting its purchases of WhatsApp and Instagram.

  • April 09, 2025

    OpenAI Countersues Musk For 'Relentless' Harassment

    OpenAI on Wednesday lodged a countersuit to Elon Musk's lawsuit accusing the ChatGPT maker of abandoning its nonprofit mission, urging a California federal court to stop the billionaire from continuing an alleged "harassment campaign" aimed at impeding its success.

  • April 09, 2025

    FBI Agent Denounced By OneTaste Execs Likely To Testify

    An FBI agent accused of misconduct by two former OneTaste executives will likely be allowed to testify at their upcoming trial on forced labor conspiracy charges, a Brooklyn federal judge said Wednesday.

  • April 09, 2025

    Hollywood Filmmaker Owes $1.7B For Sex Assault, Jury Says

    A New York state jury held Wednesday that Oscar-nominated screenwriter and director James Toback must pay $1.68 billion to 40 women he sexually assaulted over the course of four decades, according to an announcement from the victims' lawyers.

  • April 09, 2025

    Charter Confused Jurors In $1B Patent Feud, Gilstrap Told

    A New York-based startup whose infringement case against Charter Communications was rejected by a federal jury in Marshall, Texas, last month now wants a new trial, telling U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap that Charter deployed a "calculated plan to confuse the jury."

  • April 09, 2025

    Ill. Senator Sought Bribe In 'Politics For Profit,' Feds Say

    An Illinois state senator engaged in "politics for profit" as he solicited a bribe to limit a state study on automated traffic enforcement and then lied about his conduct to investigators, federal prosecutors told a jury Wednesday.

  • April 09, 2025

    Full Fed. Circ. Lets Stand Patent Tied To $400M Labcorp Loss

    The full Federal Circuit on Wednesday rejected Labcorp's request for a review of a panel decision foiling its bid to challenge patent claims underpinning an infringement judgment against it that now totals $400 million.

  • April 09, 2025

    Disney Doesn't Deserve $5.7M Fee In 'Moana' Suit, Artist Says

    Disney doesn't deserve $5.7 million in fees for beating an animator's copyright suit accusing it of ripping off his Polynesian adventure story to create "Moana," the plaintiff said Tuesday, arguing his case wasn't frivolous, considering the California federal judge found multiple times that sufficient similarity existed between the works. 

  • April 09, 2025

    Justices Urged To Look At Fed. Circ. Ax Of $13M IP Verdict

    A patent-holding company has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review a Federal Circuit decision that threw out a $13 million jury verdict against NCR Corp. in a suit accusing it of infringing two payment processing patents.

  • April 09, 2025

    Defunct Concrete Co.'s Profits Were An 'Illusion,' NC Jury Told

    The former owner of a concrete business that flopped months after it was bought out cooked the books to make the sale look more appealing, a federal jury in North Carolina heard Wednesday at the start of a civil fraud trial, in which the company's buyer has alleged he was lured into a bad deal.

  • April 09, 2025

    NC Fights Bias Finding In Death Row Case After Clemency

    North Carolina has asked the state Supreme Court to review a trial court ruling finding racial bias tainted the jury selection at a Black man's capital murder trial, saying the man's case was rendered moot in December when the outgoing governor commuted his sentence, according to a petition filed Monday.

  • April 09, 2025

    Ex-Qualcomm Executive Convicted Of $180M Fraud

    A federal jury in San Diego has found a former executive at Qualcomm guilty of defrauding the chipmaker by creating a fake company, concealing his connection to it and selling it to Qualcomm for $180 million.

  • April 09, 2025

    Conn. Justices Won't Review $1.4B Verdict Against Alex Jones

    The Connecticut Supreme Court has denied a bid by bankrupt Infowars host Alex Jones to appeal a judgment awarding more than $1 billion to the families of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims who sued him for defamation.

Expert Analysis

  • 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.

  • How Methods Are Evolving In Textualist Interpretations

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    Textualists at the U.S. Supreme Court are increasingly considering new methods such as corpus linguistics and surveys to evaluate what a statute's text communicates to an ordinary reader, while lower courts even mull large language models like ChatGPT as supplements, says Kevin Tobia at Georgetown Law.

  • 5 Ways To Confront Courtroom Technology Challenges

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    Recent cybersecurity incidents highlight the vulnerabilities of our reliance on digital infrastructure, meaning attorneys must be prepared to navigate technological obstacles inside the courtroom, including those related to data security, presentation hardware, video playback and more, says Adam Bloomberg at IMS Legal Strategies.

  • Why Attorneys Should Consider Community Leadership Roles

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    Volunteering and nonprofit board service are complementary to, but distinct from, traditional pro bono work, and taking on these community leadership roles can produce dividends for lawyers, their firms and the nonprofit causes they support, says Katie Beacham at Kilpatrick.

  • Firms Must Offer A Trifecta Of Services In Post-Chevron World

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    After the U.S. Supreme Court’s Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo decision overturning Chevron deference, law firms will need to integrate litigation, lobbying and communications functions to keep up with the ramifications of the ruling and provide adequate counsel quickly, says Neil Hare at Dentons.

  • 5 Ways Life Sciences Cos. Can Manage Insider Trading Risk

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    In light of two high-profile insider trading jury decisions against life sciences executives this year, public companies in the sector should revise their policies to account for regulators' new and more expansive theories of liability, says Amy Walsh at Orrick.

  • Strategies To Defend Against Healthcare Nuclear Verdicts

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    The healthcare industry is increasingly the target of megaclaims, particularly those alleging medical malpractice, but attorneys representing providers can use a few tools to push back on flimsy litigation and reduce the likelihood of a nuclear verdict, says LaMar Jost at Wheeler Trigg.

  • 5 Tips To Succeed In A Master Of Laws Program And Beyond

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    As lawyers and recent law school graduates begin their Master of Laws coursework across the country, they should keep a few pointers in mind to get the most out of their programs and kick-start successful careers in their practice areas, says Kelley Miller at Reed Smith.

  • Bayer Antitrust Case Hinged On Evolving Market Definition

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    Generic flea and tick medication manufacturer Tevra's evolving market definition played a key role in the development and outcome of its five-year antitrust litigation against Bayer Healthcare, highlighting challenges that litigants may face when a proposed definition is assessed at trial, say Amy Vegari and Colleen Anderson at Patterson Belknap.

  • When Trauma Colors Testimony: How To Help Witnesses

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    As stress-related mental health issues continue to rise, trial attorneys must become familiar with a few key trauma-informed strategies to help witnesses get back on track — leaning in to the counselor aspect of their vocations, say Ava Hernández and Steve Wood at Courtroom Sciences.

  • Series

    Being An Opera Singer Made Me A Better Lawyer

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    My journey from the stage to the courtroom has shown that the skills I honed as an opera singer – punctuality, memorization, creativity and more – have all played a vital role in my success as an attorney, says Gerard D'Emilio at GableGotwals.

  • Until Congress Acts, EDNY 'Insider Betting' Case Is Premature

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    The Eastern District of New York’s novel wire fraud conspiracy indictment in U.S. v. Pham may have prematurely heralded a new era in federal gambling enforcement, but in the absence of an “insider betting” statute, sportsbooks — not prosecutors — should be responsible for enforcing their terms of use, says attorney Jonathan Savella.

  • How Law Firms Can Avoid 'Collaboration Drag'

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    Law firm decision making can be stifled by “collaboration drag” — characterized by too many pointless meetings, too much peer feedback and too little dissent — but a few strategies can help stakeholders improve decision-making processes and build consensus, says Steve Groom at Miles Mediation.

  • When The Supreme Court Gives You Lemons, Make Lemonade

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    Instead of grousing about the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decisions overturning long-standing precedents, attorneys should look to history for examples of how enterprising legal minds molded difficult decisions to their advantage, and figure out how to work with the cards they’ve been dealt, says Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner.

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