Our Litigators of the Week are Josh Rosenkranz, Eric Shumsky and Chris Cariello of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe. After taking on an appeal for Massachusetts software company Pegasystems Inc. post-trial, the Orrick team secured a ruling this week from a Virginia appellate court wiping out a $2 billion trade secret…

According to the World Health Organization, one in three women, and one in six men, across the globe experience sexual violence. Sexual abuse can occur within different contexts, including marriages and intimate relationships. Understanding the signs of sexual abuse in adults is crucial for healing and recovery. Sexual Abuse…

White & Case and McDermott Will & Emery have become the latest firms to jump on the junior lawyer salary hike bandwagon, both breaking into the upper pay echelons of the London pay scale.  White & Case announced that as of January 1 2025, it would be paying its London…

Defense counsel for Donald Trump are again seeking the recusal of the Manhattan judge overseeing the former president’s criminal case—this time citing the jurist’s daughter’s work with their client’s “presumptive opponent,” Vice President Kamala Harris. In a submission made public Thursday, Trump’s lawyers argued that Acting Manhattan Supreme Court Justice…

As juries in state courts came out with multiple verdicts this year over Monsanto’s Roundup pesticide, one federal judge has asked: Should a settlement program managed by noted special master Ken Feinberg continue? U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria, who is overseeing the Roundup multidistrict litigation in the Northern District of…

TV journalist Don Lemon sued Elon Musk and Musk’s X Corp. for fraud and breach of contract after Musk unexpectedly scrapped an exclusive content partnership deal with Lemon in March. Lemon, best known for his 2006-2023 tenure on CNN, filed the complaint on Thursday in the Superior Court of the State…