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  • December 20, 2024 | Litigation Daily

    Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout-Outs

    Those taking home Runners-Up honors this week include litigators at Debevoise, Kirkland, Patterson Belknap, Stris & Maher, Weil and Winston & Strawn.

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  • Appellate Division, Second Department: December 20, 2024

    Publication Date: 2024-12-20
    Practice Area: Appellate Division Activity | Civil Appeals | Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Appellate Division, Second Department, Motion List & Order on Application
    Judge: Unsigned
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: DOCKET

    Motion List & Order on Application released on:December 18, 2024

  • Appellate Division, First Department: December 19, 2024

    Publication Date: 2024-12-19
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Appellate Division, First Department, Appeals & Motions
    Judge: Unsigned
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: DOCKET

    Appeals List & Motions List released on:December 17, 2024

  • Gude v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-12-19
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gerard Bradley Kleinrock, (Office of the Public Defender), Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia Beth Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, Michael Alexander Oldham, (Department of Law), Deborah D. Wellborn, Sherry Boston, (Dekalb County District Attorney’s Office), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A1356

    Court Affirms Convictions in a Felony Murder Case and Rejects Defendant's Claims of Jury Instruction Error and Ineffective Assistance of Counsel

  • December 18, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Pa 100: Largest Law Firms

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  • December 18, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Largest Verdicts and Settlement

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  • December 17, 2024 | Law.com

    The Silver Linings Amid Big Law’s China Chaos

    Asia Legal Briefing: As a year of law firm exits comes to an end, here are a few positive things that have come from it 

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  • December 17, 2024 | The American Lawyer

    Amid Big Law’s China Chaos, A Few Silver Linings

    Asia Legal Briefing: As a year of law firm exits comes to an end, here are a few positive things that have come from it 

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  • Macias v. Mercer Square LLC

    Publication Date: 2024-12-17
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court, Kings
    Judge: Justice Aaron D. Maslow
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiff Gerardo G. Macias. Michael James Prisco of counsel, Wingate Russotti Shapiro Moses & Halperin LLP, New York City & The Law Office of Michael James Prisco PLLC, Massapequa.
    for defendant: For Defendants/Third-Party Plaintiffs Douglas Elliman Property Management & Mercer Square Owners Corp: Aimee D. Drexler of counsel, Lewis Johs Avallone Aviles, LLP, Islandia. For Defendant/Third-Party Defendant/Second Third-Party Plaintiff DJM NYC, LLC: Emma Schwab of counsel, Kahana & Feld LLP, New York. For Second Third-Party Defendant New York Insulation, Inc: Susan Scaria of counsel, Fullerton Beck LLP, White Plains.
    Case Number: 502856/2019

    Ladder Falling on Head, Even Only Four Feet, Not De Minimis For Labor Law § 240 (1)

  • Tornetta v. Musk

    Publication Date: 2024-12-17
    Practice Area: Corporate Governance
    Industry: Automotive | Manufacturing
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Chancellor McCormick
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gregory V. Varallo, Daniel E. Meyer, Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP, Wilmington, DE; Jeroen van Kwawegen, Margaret Sanborn-Lowing, Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP, New York, NY; Peter B. Andrews, Craig J. Springer, David M. Sborz, Jackson E. Warren, Andrews & Springer LLC, Wilmington, DE; Jeremy S. Friedman, Spencer M. Oster, David F.E. Tejtel, Friedman Oster & Tejtel PLLC; Bedford Hills, New York for plaintiff.
    for defendant: David E. Ross, Garrett B. Moritz, Thomas C. Mandracchia, Ross Aronstam & Moritz LLP, Wilmington, DE; Michael A. Barlow, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Alex B. Spiro, Christopher D. Kercher, Jonathan E. Feder, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, New York, NY; Kathleen M. Sullivan, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, Los Angeles, CA; Daniel Slifkin, Vanessa A. Lavely, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, New York, NY; Catherine A. Gaul, Randall J. Teti, Ashby & Geddes, P.A., Wilmington, DE; John L. Reed, Ronald N. Brown, III, Caleb G. Johnson, Daniel P. Klusman, DLA Piper LLP (US), Wilmington, DE; William M. Lafferty, Susan W. Waesco, Ryan D. Stottmann, Miranda N. Gilbert, Jacob M. Perrone, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Rudolf Koch, John D. Hendershot, Kevin M. Gallagher, Andrew L. Milam, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Brian T. Frawley, Matthew A. Schwartz, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, New York, NY; A. Thompson Bayliss, Adam K. Schulman, Eliezer Y. Feinstein, Abrams & Bayliss LLP, Wilmington, DE; Kristen R. Seeger, John M. Skakun III, Elizabeth Y. Austin, Sidley Austin LLP, Chicago, IL for defendants.
    Case Number: 2018-0408-KSJM

    Court rejected board's post-trial efforts to obtain stockholder "ratification" of executive compensation award that failed to meet entire fairness standard where ratification was an affirmative defense required to be raised before the close of trial and where material misstatements and omissions in proxy materials meant the vote alone could not ratify a conflicted controller driven award.