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.  

In a seminal case regarding New York’s Child Victims Act (“CVA”), in Nellenback v, Madison County, ___ N.Y.3d ___, 2025 NY Slip Op 02263 (2025), the New York Court of Appeals held on April 17, 2025: (1) “we must evaluate the reasonableness of the [defendant’s] supervision by the then-prevailing standards, not today’s”; (2) “[r]eferences to ‘generalized norms or practices’ alone are not sufficient [to raise a triable issue of fact in opposition to summary judgment] where … there is nothing in the record that indicates the [defendant] had any opportunity or reason to know about the abuse”; and (3) plaintiffs cannot defeat summary judgment where “any jury determination [as to constructive notice] would be purely speculative.” Each is pivotal for CVA defendants.

Lewis Brisbois has the most litigation attorneys in Los Angeles County and is the fifth largest law firm in the county, according to a recent LA Times report. The firm’s Labor & Employment and Real Estate Practices also ranked highly in the report.

A judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas recently granted a freight broker’s motion to dismiss pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6). In this case, Armstrong Transport Group, LLC, a licensed freight broker, was sued by Yunieski Riveron Gonzalez for negligence arising out of injuries Gonzalez suffered while unloading cargo he alleges was improperly loaded and secured.

The Newark office’s commercial real estate litigation team, led by Jonathan Preziosi, recently obtained a summary judgment award before the New Jersey Tax Court determining that the assisted living and skilled nursing components of his client’s 52-acre Continuing Care Retirement Community (“CCRC”) in Maplewood Township, New Jersey, are exempt from real estate taxation under the “hospital purposes” exemption of governing state statute.

Charlotte Partner Jeremy Stephenson will speak on overcoming the ethical challenges of joint representation at an upcoming National Business Institute (NBI) webinar on April 22 at 8:00 a.m. PT.

Co-Chair of Lewis Brisbois' Data Privacy & Cybersecurity Practice Robert F. Walker will join a panel on business email compromise (BEC) at NetDiligence Cyber Risk Summit in San Diego on May 14 at 11:25 a.m. PT.

Attorneys in Lewis Brisbois’ Entertainment, Media & Sports Practice recently published an article on Mashable, titled “Musicians vs. AI: Legal Strategies to Protect Creative Rights in the Digital Era,” which discusses artificial intelligence (AI)-related legal issues that continue to emerge for musicians and how these artists may protect themselves.