Press Releases Archive

McKool Smith Hennigan has once again played an integral role in the success of the "Food From The Bar" (FFTB) campaign. FFTB is an annual four-week charitable effort led by the ...

On May 10, 2018, Magistrate Judge Roy S. Payne of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas reconsidered his order for a new trial on damages, and reinstated a ...

McKool Smith Hennigan, lead counsel to The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Los Angeles and the California Institute of the Sisters of the Most Holy and Immaculate Heart of the ...

McKool Smith Principal Kirk Dillman was honored with the 2018 Jim Robbie Award from the Litigation Section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association during the ...

McKool Smith and Benchmark Litigation have collaborated to produce “Behind the Trial,” a podcast featuring the nation’s most iconic trial lawyers. 

Behind the ...

On January 8, 2018, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit announced its decision in favor of McKool Smith client Wi-Fi One LLC, ruling en banc that ...

McKool Smith is pleased to announce the promotion of Nick Mathews to Principals in the firm’s Dallas office, effective January 1, 2018.

“Our new Principals are leaders ...

McKool Smith has secured a $75 million patent infringement verdict on behalf of Ericsson Inc. and Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (collectively “Ericsson”) against ...

McKool Smith Principal Sam Baxter was presented with the John Hannah, Jr. Award for Public Service at the Eastern District of Texas (EDTX) Bench Bar Conference in Plano on ...

LOS ANGELES (July 26, 2017) -- McKool Smith has secured a $9.4 million jury verdict on behalf of legendary music producer Quincy Jones against the late music icon Michael ...

McKool Smith Hennigan has once again played an integral role in the success of the "Food From The Bar" (FFTB) campaign. FFTB is an annual four-week charitable effort led by the ...

McKool Smith, one of America’s leading trial firms, has announced that Dallas Principal Steven Wolens has been elected Chairman of the Texas Ethics Commission.  Wolens ...

McKool Smith, one of the nation’s leading trial firms, has announced that commercial litigators Christopher P. Johnson and Zachary W. Mazin will be joining the firm as ...

McKool Smith, one of America’s leading trial firms, represented Red Lion Medical Safety, Inc. and 16 other plaintiffs in securing a $131.4 million verdict against ...

McKool Smith, one of America’s leading trial firms, has announced that Frank Vecella, the former Associate General Counsel of Litigation at Ericsson Inc., has joined the ...

McKool Smith has secured another landmark decision for its client Warren Pumps LLC, this time from the Supreme Court of the State of Delaware, in a September 12, 2016 ruling ...

McKool Smith secured a complete defense win for its client Parallel Networks in an inter partes review trial before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) against ...

McKool Smith has announced that Dallas-based principal David Sochia has been appointed Managing Principal of the firm following Gary W. Eden’s decision to step down from ...

McKool Smith has secured a landmark decision for its client Warren Pumps LLC from New York’s highest court, the Court of Appeals, on an issue of first impression in New York ...

On May 26, 2016, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a Rule 36 affirmance of a District Court judgment of non-infringement and invalidity that ...

On April 27, 2016, McKool Smith secured a preliminary injunction ordering insurers Lloyd’s of London and Axis Specialty Europe SE to immediately reimburse and advance ...

McKool Smith, one of America’s leading trial firms, has announced that seasoned insurance recovery litigator Michael John Miguel has joined the firm as a principal in its ...

McKool Smith principal Douglas A. Cawley has been inducted as a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, one of the country’s most esteemed legal associations. Mr ...

McKool Smith and its co-counsel have secured a $244 million settlement of class action antitrust claims against News Corp. and its affiliates.  The antitrust lawsuit was ...

McKool Smith P.C., dba McKool Smith Hennigan in California, has relocated its Los Angeles office to One California Plaza, a LEED Gold Certified building located at 300 South ...

McKool Smith is pleased to announce the promotion of four attorneys to principals in the firm’s Dallas, Houston, Marshall, and New York offices, effective January 1 ...

United States Attorney General Loretta Lynch and United States Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan announced today that Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based ...

McKool Smith, along with co-counsel from Norton Rose Fulbright, helped secure a complete defense win on behalf of Reflectix, Inc. and parent company Sealed Air Corporation ...

On September 21, 2015, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued an opinion affirming a $16.8 million patent infringement judgment that McKool Smith ...

HOUSTON, TEXAS (August 18, 2015) -- McKool Smith has secured a complete defense trial verdict for its client CenturyLink in a securities fraud suit brought by five groups of ...

McKool Smith’s Los Angeles office has raised $48,000 in support of the annual "Food From the Bar" (FFTB) campaign to benefit the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank. FFTB is an ...

MARSHALL, Texas (June 9, 2015) -- On June 9, 2015, Judge Rodney Gilstrap of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas entered a final judgment of $663,360,750 ...

CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee (June 5, 2015) -- McKool Smith has secured a $36.5 million jury verdict on behalf of the developers of Canyon Ridge Resort against financial services ...

McKool Smith, one of America’s leading trial firms, has announced that veteran intellectual property litigator, William “Bill” LaFuze, has joined the firm as a ...

McKool Smith has secured settlements totaling more than $115 million on behalf of a group of investment funds in connection with a lawsuit filed against Jeffrey Soffer, the ...

DALLAS, Texas (January 16, 2015) -- McKool Smith has secured a $15 million patent infringement verdict on behalf of Texas-based Droplets, Inc. against Sears Holding Corp ...

McKool Smith is pleased to announce a promotion in the New York office, effective January 1, 2015.

Courtney Statfeld practices out of the firm’s New York office and focuses ...

MARSHALL, Texas -- McKool Smith, along with co-counsel from Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP, Durrette Crump PLC, and  T. John Ward of Ward & Smith, among other firms, secured a ...

McKool Smith has once again played an integral role in the success of the "Food From The Bar" (FFTB) campaign. FFTB is an annual four-week charitable effort led by the legal ...

Davenport, Iowa -- McKool Smith has secured a complete defense win for Bush Hog, Inc., and parent company Alamo Group Inc., in a patent infringement suit brought by Deere & Co.

ORLANDO, Florida (October 24, 2013) -- McKool Smith has secured a $173 million patent infringement verdict on behalf of Jacksonville, Florida-based ParkerVision, Inc ...

DALLAS -- On Tuesday, September 3, 2013, Texas Governor Rick Perry announced his appointment of McKool Smith attorney Ada Brown as justice of the 5th Court of Appeals in ...

NEW YORK -- McKool Smith has announced today that Daniel W. Levy, a former Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York, is joining the firm ...

DALLAS--On August 15, 2013, the office of the Attorney General of the State of Hawaii issued a press release announcing that Honolulu-based Tax Appeal Court Judge Gary W.B ...

On June 26, 2013, the Federal Circuit ruled in favor of firm client Medtronic in upholding a district court judgment that two Cordis Corp. and Wyeth patents covering a drug ...

On June 26, 2013, Judge Reed O'Connor of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas in Dallas issued a final judgment upholding a $15 million patent ...

LOS ANGELES -- McKool Smith Hennigan has once again played an integral role in the success of the "Food From The Bar" (FFTB) campaign. FFTB is an annual four-week charitable ...

DALLAS -- McKool Smith announced today that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has upheld the firm’s $391 million judgment for Versata Software Inc. against ...

Dallas -- McKool Smith has secured a $15 million patent infringement verdict on behalf of Dallas, Texas-based Summit 6 LLC against Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and Samsung ...

Dallas -- On April 4, 2013, Judge Orlando Garcia of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas in San Antonio issued a final judgment awarding the City of San ...