The 2025 LCA Retreat was held April 23-25, 2025, at La Fonda on the Plaza in beautiful Santa Fe, New Mexico. Thank you to our sponsors:    

By LCA Senior Fellow Victor Vital and Chelby Sterling, of Haynes Boone, LLP

Dear Fellows: I just attended the LCA's Complex Commercial Litigation Institute (CCLI) meeting at the beautiful Broadmoor. The CCLI is a practice institute of the LCA. Thank you to Mark Williams for hosting and to Meryl Macklin for leading us. We talked about everything from what we’re reading, to AI ...

A legal professional mental health series by Senior Fellow Don Blackwell of Weinberg Wheeler Hudgins Gunn & Dial, LLC, in Miami, Florida In the lyrics to her hauntingly beautiful and troublingly relatable hit, “What Was I Made For,” singer/songwriter Billie Eilish laments, “I think I forgot how to be happy. ...

LCA Charter Senior Fellow Cecilie M. Loidolt of Wheeler Trigg O’Donnell LLP, in Denver, Colorado, is the 2025 President of Litigation Counsel of America. Cecilie is the inaugural recipient of the LCA’s J. Ric Gass Trial Presentation Award. She has taken over sixty cases to jury, including many high profile ...

A legal professional mental health series by Senior Fellow Don Blackwell of Weinberg Wheeler Hudgins Gunn & Dial, LLC, in Miami, Florida #ADifferentKindOfToDoList Find Your Way Back To The Playground There was a time – not so long ago – when a twig, a leaf, and an empty playground on ...

The Litigation Counsel of America is pleased to announce that Meryl Macklin of Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP, is the 2024 recipient of the William E. Wegner Professionalism Award. The award was presented to Meryl by LCA Fellow Matthew Wegner, Bill Wegner’s son, at the 2024 LCA Conference & Celebration ...

The 2024 LCA Conference & Celebration of Fellows was held October 23-25, 2024, at the Four Seasons Jackson Hole.  

LCA Associate Fellow Nabeel Kibria of Ervin Kibria PLLC, in Washington, DC, recently provided his expert opinion on criminal gun law on ABC News Australia regarding the Hunter Biden gun case. You can watch the full video below: VIDEO: Jury Begins Deliberations in Hunter Biden Gun Case Barbara Miller, ABC ...

The article,"Exploring California's Reputation: From Wild West to Arbitration Destination" by LCA Senior Fellow Cedric Chao, was originally featured in the Daily Journal's The Resolution Issue in May 2024. California is well positioned as an arbitration venue, particularly for US to Asia disputes, due to its geography, leading universities, experienced ...

By LCA Senior Fellow Edward R. Hugo

The 2024 LCA Spring Retreat was held April 17-19, 2024, at the Perry Lane Hotel in Savannah, Georgia.