Dear Fellows, A scroll through our LCA website reveals that the LCA is “aggressively diverse” and is “the most diverse honorary professional society in American law.” As Fellows, we obviously deeply value diversity. The question is: Why? Why is diversity important to our litigation and trial practices? I recently explored ...

LCA Senior Fellow Barry Irwin, of the law firm Irwin IP LLC, in Chicago, IL, has been re-elected as President of the Board of Lawyers for the Creative Arts.  Barry founded Irwin IP LLC in 2014, but has been litigating mission-critical, high-profile intellectual property and technology related matters in federal ...

LCA Senior Fellow John Zavitsanos, cofounder of Ahmad, Zavitsanos, Anaipakos, Alavi & Mensing P.C. (AZA) in Houston, Texas, appeared on CNBC’s Squawk Box in a segment called “How Businesses Could Approach Return to Work in 2022.” Part of the interview can be seen here.   “Being a trial lawyer, that requires ...

By LCA Senior Fellow Peter S. Selvin

Litigation Counsel of America Fellow Melissa Luce, managing partner of the plaintiff's law firm Calwell Luce diTrapano PLLC, was recently honored by the West Virginia Bar Foundation as a Fellow in its 2020 class of 15 lawyers and judges. Last year’s induction ceremony was postponed because of the Covid-19 pandemic, ...

An Illinois federal jury awarded Akerman client Atturo Tire Corp. $10 million in compensatory damages and $100 million in punitive damages on September 22, 2021. Following a 5-day trial in Chicago, the jury found Toyo Tire Corp. and Toyo U.S.A. Corp. liable for unfair competition, defamation, unjust enrichment, deceptive trade ...

The Litigation Counsel of America (LCA) has announced that Milwaukee attorney Timothy S. Trecek of the firm Habush Habush & Rottier S.C. has been named recipient of the LCA's Tommy Malone Outstanding Verdict Award for 2020. Trecek’s 2020 verdict of $38.16 million awarded by a Racine County jury is the largest single plaintiff compensatory verdict in Wisconsin history. The ...

Bucks County Solicitor Joseph Khan last week was presented the 2021 Outstanding Solicitor Award by the County Commissioners Association of Pennsylvania (CCAP). Khan was selected for helping Bucks County’s government “realize its vision for transparency, ethics and excellence,” his legal leadership and work on recent election issues, and for “redefining ...

After several years of fierce litigation, a settlement has been reached for CashCall, Inc. in a landmark legal malpractice lawsuit against Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, an AmLaw 100 law firm. Keller/Anderle LLP, attorneys for CashCall, had previously filed a $950 million lawsuit in 2017, one of the largest legal malpractice cases ever ...

Guy O. Kornblum and Mukesh Advani, of Guy O. Kornblum, A Professional Law Corporation, along with the legal aid of Sonoma County (Kendall Jarvis), represented ten displaced mobile homeowners who lost their homes as a result of the 2017 Sonoma County, California, wildfires, at the time the most destructive in California ...