Litigation Law, Mediation Law and Arbitration Law

In Voom HD Holdings LLC v. EchoStar Satellite L.L.C., No. 600292/08 (1st Dep’t Jan. 31, 2012), the First Department became the first New York state appellate court to adopt the preservation of evidence standard set forth in Zubulake v. UBS Warburg LLC, 220 F.R.D. 212, 218 (S.D.N.Y. 2003).

Right now, without your knowledge, your company could be a defendant in a lawsuit seeking tens of millions of dollars in penalties.

When a press release gives official notice that a public company is to be sold, a lawsuit objecting to the deal is soon filed.

Chambers Global ranked four Venable attorneys in their 2012 edition, including Corporate Group partners Jim Hanks and Sharon Kroupa.

On April 25, 2012, the Supreme Court issued a 5-4 opinion, written by Justice Breyer, concluding that Treasury Regulation § 301.6501(e)-1(a)(iii) was invalid.

The Royal Court in Jersey has recently provided guidance to trustees on their duty to disclose to their successors. The Supreme Court held today in United States v. Home Concrete & Supply, LLC, No. 11-139, that an overstatement of the taxpayer’s basis in a partnership interest, which thereby limits the capital gains tax on a sale of that interest, is not an "om[ission] from gross income" under 26 U.S.C. § 6501(e)(1)(A).

Fueled by high financial stakes and the specter of injunctions, patent litigation is incredibly complex, expensive and can involve protracted battles at every step of the process.

In Advanced Fiber Technologies (AFT) Trust v. J&L Fiber Services, Inc., No. 11-1243 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 3, 2012), the Federal Circuit revised the district court’s construction of a term appearing only in the court’s construction of a claim term, and therefore vacated SJ of noninfringement.

In Aventis Pharma S.A. v. Hospira, Inc., No. 11-1018 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 9, 2012)

On June 5, 2025, in an 8-1 decision, the Supreme Court dismissed Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings v. Davis as improvidently granted—despite having already granted certiorari and heard oral argument...

In a decision issued on June 27, 2025, Trump v. CASA, Inc. (a 6-3 ruling), the U.S. Supreme Court held that federal District Courts lack authority to grant universal injunctions.

Corporate defendants saw unprecedented settlement numbers across all areas of class action litigation in 2022, 2023, and 2024, and halfway through 2025, settlement numbers remain robust.