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Firm News 51 results

Firm News | 1 min read | 06.05.25

Emily Kuwahara and Sima Namiri-Kalantari Recognized as Los Angeles Business Journal Women of Influence

Los Angeles – June 5, 2025: The Los Angeles Business Journal has named Crowell & Moring partners Emily Kuwahara and Sima Namiri-Kalantari to its 2025 Women of Influence: Attorneys list. The honorees demonstrate “exceptional legal skill and achievement across the full spectrum of responsibility, exemplary leadership as evidenced by the highest professional and ethical standards, and for contributions to the Los Angeles community at large.”
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Firm News | 2 min read | 05.30.25

Kristin Madigan Named 2025 Top Woman Lawyer by the Daily Journal

San Francisco – May 30, 2025: The Daily Journal has named Crowell & Moring’s Kristin Madigan as a Top Woman Lawyer in California in 2025. The annual list celebrates “excellence, impact, and leadership across the legal profession” and recognizes the top 100 women lawyers practicing in California. You can view full in-depth profile of Kristin on the Daily Journal’s website (subscription required).

Firm News | 2 min read | 04.23.25

Laura Lydigsen and Jason Stiehl Named to Crain’s Chicago Business 2025 Notable Litigators & Trial Attorneys List

Chicago – April 23, 2024: Laura Lydigsen, co-chair of Crowell & Moring’s Intellectual Property Department, and Jason Stiehl, managing partner of the firm’s Chicago office, have been named to Crain’s Chicago Business’ 2025 list of Notable Litigators & Trial Attorneys. The list features 92 attorneys shaping Chicago's legal landscape from high-stakes litigation to precedent-setting appellate rulings.

Client Alerts 40 results

Client Alert | 4 min read | 04.02.25

Preparing for Multidistrict Litigation: Lessons for the Defense Toolkit

When a company learns that it may wind up as a defendant in a multidistrict litigation (or MDL), it may initially feel like a disaster. Between expensive, drawn out, and complicated legal proceedings and the possibility of outsized damages and company-threatening liability, it is difficult to imagine the upside. However, MDLs may not be as unfavorable a forum for defendants as they initially seem.
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Client Alert | 4 min read | 06.18.24

Class Actions: The Amended Belgian Regime on Actions for Collective Redress

On 31 May 2024, the law of 21 April 2024 amending Books I, XV and XVII of the Economic Code, and transposing Directive (EU) 2020/1828 on representative actions to protect the collective interests of consumers, was published in the Belgian Official Journal.
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Client Alert | 1 min read | 07.31.23

The First Text Cuts the Deepest: Eleventh Circuit Aligns with Other Circuits on TCPA Standing

On July 24, 2023, an en banc Eleventh Circuit joined the majority of circuits to find that just one text is sufficient to establish standing to bring a Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) claim. The decision, Drazen v. Pinto, --- F.4th ---, 2023 WL 4699939 (11th Cir. July 24, 2023), not only undoes the panel’s original holding, but also reverses course from the Eleventh Circuit’s prior decision in Salcedo v. Hanna, 936 F.3d 1162 (11th Cir. 2019), which held that a Plaintiff who received a single text message did not have TCPA standing.  
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Press Coverage 23 results

Press Coverage | 06.28.16

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Publications 45 results

Publication | 01.15.25

Administrative Law: Big Shifts in Administrative Law

As companies consider taking class actions to trial, a blockbuster decision from the U.S. Supreme Court instructing lower courts not to defer to federal agencies’ interpretations of the statutes Congress charged them with administering may prove useful. Companies should also be aware of a second decision holding agencies’ use of in-house judges to mete out civil penalties to be unconstitutional.
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Publication | 01.15.25

Antitrust: A New Frontier: Algorithmic Pricing Class Actions

On a very basic level, generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) takes in vast amounts of information, analyzes it, and provides results. It uses mathematical algorithms to find patterns in the information and exploits those patterns to achieve the user’s goal.
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Publication | 01.15.25

Appellate: The Landscape of Pretrial Appeals Is Changing Rapidly

In class action lawsuits, much of the focus is on pretrial motions—and often, the appeal of lower court rulings on those motions. But for defendants, two trends could make it more difficult to win on those appeals.
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Events 7 results

Event | 04.29.25 - 04.30.25, 8:00 AM CDT - 5:00 PM CDT

ACI 9th Advanced Summit on Food Law Regulation, Compliance and Litigation

Crowell is an associate sponsor of the American Conference Institute (ACI) Advanced Summit on Food Law Regulation, Compliance and Litigation in Chicago April 29-30.

Event | 12.03.24, 8:30 AM EST - 9:30 AM EST

29th Annual Drug & Medical Device Litigation Conference

2024 has been a pivotal year for drug and medical device litigation, marked by significant case law developments that have reshape the landscape.

Event | 06.22.18, 4:30 AM PDT - 10:30 AM PDT

ABA - 5th Annual Western Regional CLE Program on Class Actions and Mass Torts

This half-day program will present four panels on hot topics in class action and mass tort litigation, including class action ethics, expert witnesses in securities class actions, and more. The panelists include federal judges, plaintiffs' and defense lawyers, academics, experts, and private mediators. 
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Speaking Engagements 21 results

Blog Posts 1 result

Blog Post | 03.17.17

Update: Class Action Reform Bill Passes House 220-201

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