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After Cantor Fitzgerald got an earlier ruling from the Delaware Supreme Court finding the forfeiture-for-competition provisions of its partnership agreements valid under state law, Benjamin Nagin and Tacy Flint of Sidley Austin and David Paul, the co-head of litigation at the financial services firm, won a motion to dismiss federal antitrust claims brought on behalf of former partners.

A team at Munger, Tolles & Olson teamed with the Washington State Office of the Attorney General to secure a permanent injunction against the proposed $24.6 billion merger of the Kroger and Albertsons grocery chains.

The state’s high court found that the Ohio Product Liability Act barred public-nuisance claims that resulted in a $650 million verdict for two Ohio counties. Jeffrey Wall of Sullivan & Cromwell represented Walgreens, Noel Francisco of Jones Day represented Walmart and Donald Verrilli Jr. of Munger, Tolles & Olson represented CVS.

U.S. District Judges Trina Thompson, Araceli Martínez-Olguín, Casey Pitts, Rita Lin and Eumi Lee, all appointees of President Joe Biden, spoke about what they expect from lawyers who come before them at an event in San Francisco last week.

U.S. District Judges Trina Thompson, Araceli Martínez-Olguín, Casey Pitts, Rita Lin and Eumi Lee, all appointees of President Joe Biden, spoke about what they expect from lawyers who come before them at an event in San Francisco last week.

Alan Fisch and Bill Sigler announced last month that Dec. 31 will be Fisch Sigler’s last day of operation. They’re launching a new company aimed at applying artificial intelligence to agriculture.

Here are some thoughts on professionalism, ethics and civility in the courtroom from Judge Jay Quam in Minnesota, Judge Margaret Schreiber in Florida and Retired Justice William Bedsworth in California.

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

Lawyers for Thomas Hart Benton's heirs were seeking hundreds of millions of dollars based on claims UMB Bank mismanaged the family trust for the artist at the forefront of the Regionalist movement and lost more than 100 of his works. A judge in Kansas City awarded just $35,000 for five works unaccounted for by the bank, represented at trial by Todd Ruskamp, Patrick Kenney and Russell Shankland of Shook, Hardy & Bacon.

Lawyers for Thomas Hart Benton’s heirs were seeking hundreds of millions of dollars based on claims UMB Bank mismanaged the family trust for the artist at the forefront of the Regionalist movement and lost more than 100 of his works. A judge in Kansas City awarded just $35,000 for five works unaccounted for by the bank, represented at trial by Todd Ruskamp, Patrick Kenney and Russell Shankland of Shook, Hardy & Bacon.