Publications Archive

Dallas Principal Frank Vecella published an article for an online book focused on helping Scandinavian companies minimize the risks and costs of U.S. litigation ...

Dallas Principal Scott Hejny and Chelsea Priest published an article in Law360 titled, “SAS Indirectly Strengthens The Impact Of Estoppel.”  The article discusses how ...

On Friday, April 20, 2018, McKool Smith secured a summary judgment ruling from the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois which allows Cushman & ...

Laurie Fitzgerald

In a forceful speech^[1] delivered on November 10, 2017, the new leader of the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice, Assistant ...

On Friday, July 21, 2017, McKool Smith secured a Summary Judgment ruling from the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York which allows Medidata Solutions ...

Austin Principal Steve Pollinger has published an article in Law360 titled “How Many Bites At The Apple After A PTAB Challenge?” that reviews takeaway points ...

Austin managing principal Steve Pollinger recently published an article in Law360 titled, “Much More Than East Texas Is At Stake In TC Heartland.” The article explains ...

Washington, D.C. associate Benjamin Christoff recently published an article featured by the American Bar Association; “TC Heartland, the VENUE Act, and the Direction ...

Steven Pollinger, Managing Principal of the firm’s Austin office, published an article in Law360 titled “Why Can’t A Method Be Sold, Just Like Any Other ...

McKool Smith recently secured a landmark decision for its client Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America (“TIAA”), College Retirement Equities Fund ...

Steve Pollinger, Managing Principal of the firm’s Austin office recently discussed the hotly contested issue of subject matter eligibility under 35 U.S.C. §101 in an ...

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 Viking Pump, applying New ...

McKool Smith regularly publishes a summary of cases decided by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to ensure that our attorneys and clients are aware of ...

McKool Smith won an inter partes review trial after institution for its client Parallel Networks.  Microsoft and IBM submitted multiple requests for inter partes review of ...

The America Invents Act (AIA) has ushered in a new era for post-issuance validity challenges of patents before the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). To help ...

McKool Smith principal Robert Manley contributed to a study conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers called “Daubert Challenges to Financial Experts” which discusses ...

McKool Smith 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 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 ...

New York Senior Counsel Doreen Klein co-authored an article, “Fokker and Its Aftermath: The Irony and the Legacy,” in ALM’s Business Crimes Bulletin.  The article ...

Los Angeles principal Jeanne Irving discusses the use of a hypothetical negotiation to prove patent damages in a recent article published in the Association of Business ...

New York principal Daniel Levy discusses the background and implications of a very recent decision in which the Second Circuit affirmed the government’s broad authority ...

Given the prospective nature of remedies issued by the International Trade Commission and enforced by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, anticipating how to address ...

One of the most significant developments in federal criminal law over the past decade has been the increasingly international reach of the U.S. Department of Justice’s ...

A special task force of the American Bar Association recently proposed to the United States Sentencing Commission substantial amendments to the U.S. Sentencing ...

Patent litigation is expensive, and e-discovery costs can drive a significant portion of that expense.  According to McKool Smith associate Leah Buratti, these costs are ...

Most of the detainees now held at Guantánamo have been imprisoned there for more than a decade without ever being charged with any crime, according to this opinion piece ...

Real mediation know-how is essential for counsel in high-stakes commercial litigation. Los Angeles principal Robert Palmer and associate Elizabeth ...

In litigation today, it is difficult to imagine a case that would not significantly involve electronic discovery.  In matters of any size, e-discovery is expensive ...

Witness immunity in federal criminal trials is the topic explored by McKool Smith senior counsel and (and co-author) Doreen Klein in an article for the November 2011 issue of ...

Jeffrey Frey contributed to a Law360 "Expert Analysis" article titled "Avoiding America Invents Act Section 299 Via ITC." It discusses how Section 299 of the America ...

Technology has erased global boundaries, and so has the federal judiciary. Doreen Klein, McKool Smith senior counsel co-authored an article on federal prosecutors' use of ...

According to Doreen Klein, a senior counsel at McKool Smith, and her co-author, in a scathing decision issued in September 2009, Judge Jed Rakoff of the U.S. District Court ...

Business Crimes Bulletin published an article in its November issue 2010 co-authored by Doreen Klein, senior counsel at McKool Smith, on White-Collar Court Cases and the ...

In the January 2010 issue of Business Crimes Bulletin, senior counsel Doreen Klein looked at how the Department of Justice used wiretaps to uncover alleged insider trading ...

To understand how hard it is proving for President Obama to close the American military prison at Guantánamo Bay, consider the case of Alla Ali Bin Ali Ahmed, Internee ...