A federal judge in Minnesota ruled that Abbott Laboratories, the creators of Pedialyte, can continue with its trademark suit against Revitalyte, a similar electrolyte beverage made popular through a partnership with sports and pop culture media company, Barstool Sports. In an Aug. 13 opinion, U.S. District Judge Donovan W. Frank…

Hogan Lovells has recruited power regulatory lawyer Chip Cannon from A&O Shearman, marking the latest partner exit from the newly merged firm. Cannon joins Hogan Lovells’ global regulatory and IP practice as a partner in Washington, D.C. His practice focuses on markets and regulation in the U.S. power sector, including matters…

Attorneys general from Alabama, Georgia, Iowa and Ohio are urging a federal judge to allow Kroger’s $24.6 billion acquisition of rival Albertsons to go through, arguing that the Federal Trade Commission’s opposition to the deal is premised on an overly narrow definition of the grocery market that’s detached from reality and…

Welcome to another edition of our Litigation Leaders series, featuring the litigation practice leaders at some of the biggest and most innovative law firms in the country.  Meet Adam Siegel, the U.S. co-head of litigation at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and the co-head of the firm’s global investigations practice. Siegel, who…

Partner pay spreads continue to expand in Big Law. But not every firm is stretching the gap between its highest- and lowest-paid equity partners. The firms with the lowest equity partner pay ratios have mostly kept the distance short for the last couple of years, at roughly 4-to-1 or less,…

Jackson Walker and Kirkland & Ellis, alongside former bankruptcy court judge David R. Jones, won a dismissal in a case that alleged they conspired to hide Jones’ relationship with bankruptcy attorney Elizabeth Freeman in order to obtain favorable verdicts. Alia Moses, chief district judge of the U.S. District Court for…