Atlanta litigators Miguel Dominguez and Leighton Moore have reached a $1.25 million settlement with Georgia State Patrol after a trooper shot an unarmed college student during a 2020 protest in downtown Atlanta. The leaders of Dominguez Law Firm and Moore Law Firm, respectively, credit the seven-figure resolution to their investigative…

Lawyers for Donald Trump are asking an intermediate New York appeals court to reduce or dismiss a lower court’s nearly $500 million civil fraud judgment against the former president and others, arguing that the “draconian” judgment and the case itself violate “centuries of New York case law.” Manhattan Supreme Court…

Pryor Cashman has added Maxwell Breed, who was most recently a management committee member and litigation co-chair of midsize firm Warshaw Burstein. Breed is joining Pryor Cashman’s real estate litigation group in New York, the firm said Tuesday. Breed said his departure from the 60-lawyer firm was “not because he was…

King & Spalding attorneys prevailed on appeal for client Baystar on its attempt to enforce a contractual right to $75.4 million in liquidated damages against a McDermott International Ltd. subsidiary. CB&I LLC, a McDermott company, entered into agreements in 2017 with Pasadena, Texas-based Baystar on two engineering and construction projects with a…

Sullivan & Cromwell, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer advised on Bosch Group’s $8.1 billion acquisition of the residential ventilation businesses of Johnson Controls and Hitachi. The all-cash transaction is the largest acquisition to date for the privately held German technology group.

Within days of Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign launching, some corners of Big Law are already organizing, advising and fundraising for the vice president, as Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, lean on their legal community ties. Harris has maintained a base of support in Big Law since at least her…