Los Angeles Partners Dana Alden Fox and Laurie Stayton secured a complete defense verdict for their public entity client in a high exposure personal injury case in Tulare County Superior Court. The plaintiff, a 13-year-old boy, suffered a severe and permanent traumatic brain injury and serious orthopedic injuries after being struck by a vehicle going 45 mph while attempting to cross a state highway at an unmarked crosswalk.

Lewis Brisbois is pleased to welcome Partners Jesse Zirillo, Samantha Cavalier, Gabrielle Carbonara, and Bridget Sasson, as well as Associate Jesse Harcar, to its Pittsburgh office as members of the firm’s Energy, Marine, & Power and Real Estate & Land Use Practices. Mr. Zirillo will serve as co-chair of the Energy, Marine & Power Practice. With deep and varied transactional and litigation experience, these attorneys represent companies conducting business in the oil and gas space

The trial team of Christian McGannon, Andrew Harms, Nicholas Hurzeler and Michelle Gorman secured a defense verdict before a Suffolk County jury on Friday, May 30, 2025, in a trucking casualty action brought by a supermarket store manager.

Houston Partners Bill Helfand and Rachael Fountain recently secured a trial victory in the U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas on First Amendment retaliation claims allegedly valued at $40M against an elected Harris County, Texas constable who the plaintiffs alleged retaliated against them for participating in an outside investigation of the department and refusing to support the Constable’s re-election campaign.

Baltimore Partner Andrew Gendron will speak on product liability risk at the International Association of Defense Counsel (IADC) Annual Meeting in Quebec, Canada on July 8 at 10:00 a.m. ET. He is also serving on this event's CLE steering committee. 

New Orleans Partner James W. Hailey III will speak on current legal issues with catastrophe fraud at the upcoming Coalition Against Insurance Fraud (CAIF) webinar on June 18 at 2:00 p.m. ET.

This past weekend, the Illinois legislature passed a bill that will permit the exercise of general jurisdiction over any defendant that is registered to do business in Illinois where the lawsuit alleges “injury or illness resulting from exposure to a substance defined as toxic under the Unform Hazardous Substance Act of Illinois.”

Most people know intuitively what the concept of “discrimination” is. In the landmark sex discrimination case of Bostock v. Clayton County, 590 U.S. 644 (2020), discrimination was defined as “to make a difference in treatment or favor (of one as compared with others).” In plain terms, treating similar cases the same is not discrimination, and neither is treating different cases differently. Treating similar cases differently, however, is discrimination.

On May 23, 2025, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) released General License 25. General License 25 is the most sweeping sanctions alleviation license published by OFAC regarding Syria, and follows President Trump’s May 14, 2025, Riyadh speech announcing the cessation of sanctions against Syria.

Four Lewis Brisbois partners and three Lewis Brisbois practices were recently ranked by Chambers in its 2025 USA rankings list.   

New York Partner Alecia Walters-Hinds will speak on navigating Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in a shifting legal landscape at the upcoming Claims and Litigation Management (CLM) Focus Conference in Nashville on June 12 at 9:00 a.m. CT.

On May 30, 2025, President Donald Trump announced to rallygoers in Pennsylvania that his administration would soon double the tariff on imported steel from 25 percent to 50 percent. On June 3, 2025, President Trump issued a Proclamation that formally doubles the tariffs on steel articles and derivative steel articles, as well as doubling the tariffs (to 50 percent) on aluminum articles and derivative aluminum articles.

Lewis Brisbois is pleased to welcome Cameron Grant and Melika Harris to its Kansas City office, where Mr. Grant will serve as the office’s managing partner. Mr. Grant and Ms. Harris, who have three decades of experience between them, join the firm’s Complex Business & Commercial Litigation and Labor & Employment Practices as a partner and associate, respectively, from the Kansas City office of an Am Law 100 firm.

Providence Partners Michael J. Marcello and Todd Romano recently obtained an opinion from the Rhode Island Superior Court that rejected a property developer’s appeal of a Tiverton Zoning Board of Review decision upholding the town Planning Board’s denial of a master plan application for a recycling plant.