Daniel Siegal

A California federal jury on Friday found that Apple owes Qualcomm roughly $31 million for infringing several patents relating to smartphone processors following a hotly contested trial that’s part of the sprawling legal battle between the two tech giants over smartphone technology.

A New York jury has awarded $40.1 million to a man with mesothelioma, placing the bulk of the blame for his asbestos exposure on Goodyear Tire, which has asked for a new trial because of “outrageous remarks” made by the man’s counsel during closing arguments.

U-Haul International Inc. must pay $60 million for infringing storage company PODS Enterprises Inc.’s trademarks by using the term “pods” repeatedly on its website to draw customers to its own “U-Box” home storage program, a Florida federal jury found on Thursday.

Canadian pot giant Canopy Growth Corp. is facing fresh shareholder accusations that it misled the market with false claims about how it managed its grow operations and ended up trashing $132 million Canadian dollars ($98 million) worth of cannabis when consumer demand didn’t materialize as hoped.

J.C. Penney, Sears, Kohl’s and Macy’s on Thursday urged a California judge to dismiss the Los Angeles city attorney’s suits alleging the retailers trick consumers with inflated “original” prices on sale goods, arguing the city is pushing an unnecessarily narrow definition of “original” that consumer…

Richards Layton & Finger PA partner Travis Hunter played a key role on a multi-firm team that helped a Bristol-Myers Squibb unit defeat a potentially billion-dollar trade secrets claim at trial, landing him a spot as one of five trials attorneys under age 40 honored as Law360 Rising Stars.

Squire Patton Boggs LLP and Cummins & White LLP on Thursday urged a California appeals court to toss a malicious prosecution suit alleging the firms trumped up a securities fraud lawsuit on behalf of patent holders against mobile advertiser GetFugu Inc., arguing GetFugu brought the claim, and lo…

Pom Wonderful LLC told a California federal jury Friday during closing arguments that Coca-Cola’s misleading marketing of a pomegranate-blueberry juice containing almost none of those fruits cost it $77 million, while Coca-Cola fired back that Pom’s deceptive marketing of its own products sinks its…

A Johnson & Johnson attorney on Friday interrogated an opioid policy expert on his claim that a lobbying group J&J belonged to, the Pain Care Forum, was the “opioid mafia,” questioning whether the group’s other members, including nursing associations and the American Cancer Society, were all…

Before his indictment Thursday for allegedly aiding notorious Turing Pharmaceuticals Inc. boss Martin Shkreli in a securities fraud scheme, Kaye Scholer LLP partner Evan Greebel built a career as a go-to lawyer in the quirky world of online cryptocurrency bitcoin, scoring colorful clients like the W…

Christmas Tree Shops Inc. agreed Monday to pay $1.34 million to settle allegations in New York federal court that the retailer failed to pay overtime to its department managers in violation of federal and state law.

Manhattan's top federal judge handed Ferring Pharmaceuticals a decisive win Friday in its patent showdown with rival Serenity after a Zoom trial last month, with the judge blasting Serenity's founder for taking Ferring's research for his overly broad and generic patents.

A Washington state jury has returned from a pandemic-spurred break to award $98.5 million to the grandparents of two young boys who were killed by their father in a murder-suicide, finding the state's Department of Children, Youth and Families' negligence was to blame for their deaths.

The Zoom-based patent showdown between drugmakers Ferring and Serenity kicked off Monday with highly technical testimony from a pharmaceuticals expert — as well as some exasperation from Southern District of New York Chief Judge Colleen McMahon at the pace of the digital proceedings.

With an injury and then a pandemic interrupting her packed trial schedule, Skadden’s Allison Brown says she’s had an “almost comical” start to life at her new firm. But she’s been able to use the rare time away from the courtroom to counsel clients making personal protective equipment — and to catch up with colleagues virtually while learning to make cocktails.

A Pennsylvania appeals court has rebuffed a racehorse jockey's bid for a new trial on his claim that a botched back surgery at a Pittsburgh hospital ended his career, ruling the jockey's failure to bring in a nurse to testify was his own fault.

The Eleventh Circuit has affirmed a quantitative analyst’s $1.25 million trial win against Priderock Capital Partners, ruling that it was proper to have a jury decide how much Priderock owed the analyst for helping start up a new mortgage-backed securities fund.

A New Jersey federal judge on Monday largely rejected Johnson & Johnson’s efforts to bar plaintiffs’ experts from testifying that J&J’s baby powder contains asbestos and that talc can cause ovarian cancer, opening a path to trials in the multidistrict litigation that contains thousands of cases.

Despite the coronavirus pandemic, a Missouri appeals court on Wednesday set an April date to have a limited number of attorneys appear in person for oral arguments in Johnson & Johnson's appeal of a $4.69 billion verdict on claims that asbestos in J&J's talcum powder caused ovarian cancer.

A defunct shoemaking startup found to have ripped off the design of the Tieks shoe brand can’t shake a jury’s $2.95 million verdict, a Delaware federal judge held on Tuesday, who also awarded Tieks maker Gavrieli Brands attorney fees and nearly $200,000 in prejudgment interest.