Chicago Partner Mary A. Smigielski has been re-appointed as Chair of the Chicago Bar Association’s (CBA) Labor & Employment Law Committee for the 2025-2026 term.

Phoenix Partner Gregg Clifton recently spoke with Law360 Employment Authority for an article concerning how the NCAA’s landmark $2.78 billion class action settlement will affect student-athletes’ efforts to unionize.

Lewis Brisbois is pleased to welcome Tamara McNulty to its Washington, D.C. office as a partner in the firm’s Complex Business & Commercial Litigation, Construction, and Administrative Law & Regulatory Practices. With 30 years of experience, including as senior in-house counsel and in Am Law 100 firms, Ms. McNulty focuses her practice on construction, government contracts law, and commercial litigation. She represents commercial and government contractors in matters involving a variety of complex claims and disputes. Ms. McNulty, who has tried numerous cases in both state and federal court, practices on a national and international scale, providing legal services to clients within the United States and abroad.

New York Partner Shawn Choudhury achieved a significant victory on behalf of his client, a subcontractor who recently completed sidewalk restoration work for a major utility provider in New York City, in a trip and fall case when a Bronx Supreme Court judge granted his motion for reargument and entered summary judgment for the client.

New York Partner Cristina R. Yannucci will provide opening remarks and join an interactive panel to at Practising Law Institute’s (PLI) 2025 Ethics Game Show, hosted in NYC on June 25 at 3:00 p.m. ET.

Sacramento Partner Paul Baleria and Walnut Creek Associate Danielle Weller recently obtained a jury verdict for the defense in a medical malpractice case on behalf of an emergency medicine physician during a two-week trial in Alameda County Superior Court.  

In Tucker v. All Metro Home Care Servs., Inc., ___ A.D.3d ___, 2025 NY Slip Op 03640 (1st Dep’t 2025), the plaintiff alleged to have been rendered quadriplegic after falling from the window of his second-story apartment in 2013. At the time of his fall, the plaintiff was a mentally disabled adult under the 24/7 care of a home health agency (which was also a named co-defendant). The firm represented the landlord/owner of the building in the action, brought in Supreme Court, Bronx County. The plaintiff’s primary theory of liability was that, given the plaintiff’s known mental infirmities, the landlord had a “heightened duty of care” under the common law to install window guards in the apartment.

Los Angeles Partner Steven Gatley recently secured a defense verdict for the City of Baldwin Park in a former employee's lawsuit alleging harassment and discrimination.

Los Angeles Partner George Romain and Associate Fabiola Martinez, along with co-counsel from Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani and O’Hagan Meyer, secured a complete defense verdict for their client in a jury trial in Fresno Superior Court (Oracle Anesthesia, Inc., and John Juve v. Central Vallely Anesthesia Partners, Inc., et. al.)

Lewis Brisbois is pleased to announce that it has formed an Insurance Underwriting Advisory Services Practice devoted to delivering a broad spectrum of specialized legal services tailored to the needs of insurance underwriters, product leaders, and managing general underwriters/agents. The firm is also pleased to welcome Rob Yellen to our New York office as co-chair of the firm’s new Insurance Underwriting Advisory Services Practice and vice-chair of its Directors & Officers Practice. 

New York Partner Alecia Walters-Hinds will speak on women in the law at the June installment of the ABOTA Foundation Webinar Series on June 17 at 1:00 p.m. CT.

A common refrain from many U.S. employers following receipt of an Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) citation is that if they had known that they were in violation, they would have acted quickly to correct it. Well, now the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has expanded access for employers in doubt about whether they are in compliance with the law through the “opinion letter program.”

Dallas Partner Mark Cronenwett recently obtained a decision from the Texas Court of Appeals dismissing personal injury claims against his bus operator client based on lack of personal jurisdiction.