Kirkland & Ellis LLP announced Monday that it has rehired a prominent trial attorney from Latham & Watkins LLP, touting his record of securing 18 complete defense verdicts and more than $1.8 billion in damages for plaintiffs since 2017.
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Kirkland Rehires Esteemed NY Trial Lawyer From Latham

By Andrea Keckley

Kirkland & Ellis LLP announced Monday that it has rehired a prominent trial attorney from Latham & Watkins LLP, touting his record of securing 18 complete defense verdicts and more than $1.8 billion in damages for plaintiffs since 2017.

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Spiro Can't Be Witness And Musk Atty, Twitter Investors Say

By Jack Karp

Elon Musk's informed written consent does not mean that Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP partner Alex Spiro can serve as both his lead counsel and witness in the trial over a class of investors' allegations that Musk tried to tank Twitter's stock, those investors told a California federal judge on Friday.

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LA Reid's Former Attys Face Sanctions Bid In Sex Assault Suit

By Andrea Keckley

Attorneys for a producer accusing music executive Antonio "L.A." Reid of sexual assault asked a New York federal judge to sanction his former lawyers for allegedly causing unreasonable delays to the proceedings, most recently preventing a trial from proceeding as scheduled in September.

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Venable Brings On DOJ Veteran To Bolster Litigation Group

By Rose Krebs

Venable LLP announced Monday it has added an attorney who worked in the U.S. Deparment of Justice for more than a decade, including having prosecuted Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot cases, to enhance its capacity to handle white collar, regulatory and other matters.

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CASES

Ex-GC Says Honeywell Can't Boot Her Age Bias Suit To China

By Hayley Fowler

A former vice president and general counsel for a Honeywell subsidiary said the conglomerate can't skirt her age discrimination claims by punting the case to China — where she lived and worked during her employment — because she has no legal remedy under Chinese law.

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Trump Media Aims To DQ Gunster In Fight With Investors

By Madison Arnold

Trump Media & Technology Group, which owns President Donald Trump's Truth Social platform, is fighting with investors over whether Gunster should be allowed to represent them against the company's lawsuit over taking the business public in light of a Florida state judge's ties to the firm.

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Conn. Firm, Former Client End Cybersecurity Dispute

By Matt Perez

A Connecticut personal injury firm and its former client have reached a joint stipulation of dismissal in a federal court dispute over the firm's hacked email system and a fraudulent email that resulted in the wiring of nearly $730,000 in closing costs on a residential property.

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Law Firm Aims To Escape Pa. Suit Over Massage Envy Action

By James Boyle

South Carolina-based McGowan Hood Felder & Phillips LLC wants a malpractice lawsuit filed against the personal injury firm dismissed, telling a Pennsylvania federal court Monday the suit's underlying actions involving a botched sexual assault case against Massage Envy occurred in North Carolina.

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Bank Seeks Atty Fees For 'Vexatious' Patent Suit

By Elliot Weld

CIBC Bank has asked a Texas federal court to impose sanctions on a rival litigant, its principal and one of its attorneys, saying the patent claims they brought were "vexatious and substantively unsuccessful in every single aspect."

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

This past week, the Delaware Chancery Court and Supreme Court handled a crowded corporate docket, weighing blockbuster merger appeals, shareholder settlement objections, fights over control involving an NBA franchise and a high-profile appeal from Elon Musk involving a massive payday from Tesla.

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LAW FIRMS

Ex-Acting DC US Atty Joins Munger Tolles

By Adrian Cruz

An experienced trial attorney has joined Munger Tolles & Olson LLP's Washington, D.C., office after a short stint as acting U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, the firm announced Monday.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Aidala Bertuna

Benesch

Bentley Goodrich

Boies Schiller

Cotchett Pitre

Goldberg Segalla

Gunster Yoakley

Homer Bonner

King & Spalding

Kinsella Holley

Kirkland & Ellis

Laffey Bucci

Latham & Watkins

Law Offices of Patrick McCabe

Legon Fodiman

McGowan Hood

Morgan Lewis

Moritt Hock

Munger Tolles

O'Melveny & Myers

Orrick Herrington

Quinn Emanuel

Ramey LLP

Rudy Exelrod

Scardino LLP

Scott Douglass

Sher Tremonte

Updike Kelly

Vedder Price

Venable LLP

Womble Bond

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Auris Health Inc.

BlackBerry Ltd.

Fortis Advisors LLC

George Washington University

Highland Capital Management LP

Honeywell International Inc.

Johnson & Johnson

LG Electronics Inc.

LinkedIn Corp.

MHR Fund Management LLC

Massage Envy LLC

National Amusements Inc

Novo Nordisk A S

Paramount Global

Phoenix Suns

Rite Aid Corp.

Skydance Media LLC

Sony Music Entertainment Inc.

Tesla Inc.

The Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

Twitter Inc.

UBS Group AG

Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Delaware Court of Chancery

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Food and Drug Administration

U.S. Attorney's Office

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Supreme Court