Chicago Partner Darcy Ibach and Boston Partner Patricia Gary recently secured a ruling that their surplus lines insurer client has no duty to defend or indemnify its insured attorney in a legal malpractice action. 

The Newark Trial Team of Partners Afsha Noran and Colin Hackett recently picked its fifth jury of 2025, and once again achieved a favorable result for the client. 

Lewis Brisbois has expanded its products liability, toxic tort, asbestos, and trial capabilities in California and New England with the addition of 12 attorneys from Pond North LLP. The group includes Pond North’s principals, Frank Pond and Christine North, as well as six additional partners and four associates. These lawyers have joined Lewis Brisbois’ Products Liability, Asbestos Litigation, and Toxic Tort & Environmental Litigation Practices.
 

Boston Managing Partner Kenneth B. Walton has been named a 2025 Massachusetts “Go To Lawyer” for Construction Law by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly.

Four partners in Lewis Brisbois's Chicago office were recently recognized as Law360's "Legal Lions of The Week." Tim Young, Lynn Geerdes, Robert V. Good, Jr., and Jordan LaClair represented Twin Hill Acquisition Inc. and Mi Hub in a case involving American Airlines, where an Illinois federal judge ruled that allegedly toxic employee uniforms did not have sufficient expert evidence indicating that they caused or were capable of causing the approximately 75 Plaintiffs’ health symptoms.

New York Partners Peter Iannace, John Risi, and Peter Dunne recently secured summary judgment on behalf of a big box store. The plaintiff was assaulted by an employee of the big box store at one of its locations in Manhattan, which was captured on both the plaintiff’s cell phone and store surveillance video.  The plaintiff alleged that the assault was unprovoked after he requested customer support.   

Philadelphia Partner Jason Berger and Nashville Co-Managing Partner Matt Cottingham have been named to Billboard's 2025 Top Music Lawyers list.

Dallas Partner Clint Corrie has been named to D Magazine’s 2025 "Best Lawyers in Dallas" list for Securities Litigation & Enforcement. This is his eighth year receiving this recognition.

Wilmington Partner Rafael X. Zahralddin-Aravena will present on corporate governance ethics at the American Bar Association (ABA) Business Law Spring Meeting in New Orleans on April 24 at 8:00 a.m. CT.

After agreeing to take on a new client’s case, just three months before the trial date, where the file had not been worked up according the high standards of Lewis’ Civil Rights & Police Litigation Defense Task Force, Los Angeles Partner Tony Sain and his team won a defense verdict in a federal jury trial in downtown Los Angeles.