• February 7, 2025 | Litigation Daily

    Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout-Outs

    Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett squared off with lawyers from the Federal Trade Commission in a seven-day bench trial over Tempur Sealy International Inc.’s $4 billion acquisition of Mattress Firm Inc.

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  • May 31, 2024 | Litigation Daily

    Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout Outs

    First up this week is a team at Irell & Manella that won a $445 million patent infringement verdict last week for computer memory client Netlist…

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  • October 1, 2021 | Litigation Daily

    Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout Outs

    A pair of talc trial wins for J&J and important appellate wins for Hogan Lovells and Wachtell lead the way this week.

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  • April 19, 2019 | Litigation Daily

    And the LOTW Runners Up...

    Honorable mention goes to litigators from Winston & Strawn; Jenner & Block; McCarter & English; Baker McKenzie and Sadis & Goldberg.

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  • Aranda v. Philip Morris USA Inc.

    Publication Date: 2018-04-04
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Personal Injury
    Industry: Agriculture
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Seitz
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ian Connor Bifferato, Richard S. Gebelein, and Thomas F. Driscoll, The Bifferato Firm, Wilmington, DE; Charles S. Siegel, Waters & Kraus, LLP, Dallas, TX; Stephen J. Phillips, Phillips & Paolicelli, New York, NY; the Thorton Law Firm, Boston, MA, attorneys for appellants
    for defendant: P. Clarkson Collins, Jr. and David J. Soldo, Morris James LLP, Wilmington, DE; Patrick W. Dennis and Perlette Michele Jura, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Los Angeles, CA; Miguel A. Estrada and Amir C. Tayrani, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Washington, DC; Donald E. Reid, Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Matthew S. Hellman, Jenner & Block LLP, Washington, DC; Elizabeth A. Coleman and Casey T. Grabenstein, Jenner & Block LLP, Chicago, IL, attorneys for appellees.

    Case Number: D68094

    Availability of alternative forum not a condition of dismissal on forum non conveniens grounds, as analysis focused solely on defendants hardship in litigating in Delaware.

  • March 22, 2018 | Delaware Business Court Insider

    Del. Supreme Court Rejects Requirement of Alternative Forum Before Case Dismissal

    The Delaware Supreme Court on Thursday declined to adopt a rule that would require state courts to determine that an alternative forum is available to plaintiffs before dismissing cases on the grounds of forum non conveniens.

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  • December 19, 2017 | Delaware Business Court Insider

    Delaware Supreme Court Denies $14M Payment on Michigan Wind Farm

    The Delaware Supreme Court on Monday ruled that Exelon General Acquisitions' decision to change the location of a Michigan wind farm allowed the company to avoid a $14 million earn-out payment to Deere & Co. stemming from its 2010 purchase of Deere's wind-energy business.

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  • June 9, 2017 | The Recorder

    MoFo Recruits Another Wilson Sonsini Life Sciences Lawyer

    Two weeks after welcoming a six-lawyer team from Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Morrison & Foerster has returned to its Bay Area-based rival for life sciences licensing attorney Scott Carter, who re-joins his former colleagues as of counsel in San Francisco.

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  • March 17, 2015 | The American Lawyer

    Polsinelli Sets Up Shop in Raleigh, Plus More Lateral Moves

    Polsinelli, the fast-growing Am Law 100 firm focused on a href="http://www.am

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  • March 17, 2015 | The American Lawyer

    Polsinelli Sets Up Shop in Raleigh, Plus More Lateral Moves

    After raiding Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough for five health care partners, fast-growing Polinselli will open an office in Raleigh; Gibson Dunn and Winston & Strawn add new practice leaders; the NSA's top lawyer returns to Mayer Brown; three former federal prosecutors flock to Robins Kaplan and Wilmer; and other notable hires from throughout The Am Law 200.

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