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There’s something of a subgenre here at The Litigation Daily involving appellate advocates who accomplish great logistic travel feats to deliver their arguments. Be it logging 1,100 miles to deliver arguments on back-to-back days in separate circuits or handling three arguments in four cases in one week, we’re a sucker…

A&O Shearman has announced its appointment to replace Khalid Garousha as the firm’s next managing partner for the Middle East, Turkey and Africa. A&O partner David Foster will succeed Garousha in the role, after Garousha’s recent election to become the newly-merged firm’s senior partner. 

Reading Hospital agreed Monday to pay $32.5 million to resolve a birth injury lawsuit that, according to plaintiffs counsel, another lawyer had previously declined to pursue. Ross Feller Casey founding partner Matt Casey said his firm took on the case after the first attorney the injured child’s family contacted turned it down.…

Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom and Slaughter and May are among the firms advising on U.S. company International Paper’s acquisition of U.K. packaging firm DS Smith. The combination has a transaction value of approximately $9.9 billion—equivalent to roughly £7.9 billion—according to an announcement from International Paper, which is based in Memphis,…

The Manhattan judge presiding over Donald Trump’s criminal case may have shocked the country when he empaneled seven jurors on Tuesday following just two days of jury selection—but observers say it shows the jurist is in complete control of the proceedings. “Despite everyone’s belief that voir dire was going to…