Lawyer Limelights | Lawdragon

Hard Work and the Road to Leadership with Melissa D’Alelio

The chair of the Insurance and Catastrophic Loss Group at Robins Kaplan in Boston takes lessons from her prior work as a teacher and waitress.

April 29, 2025

Trial and True: Empowering the Jury with Medical Malpractice Trial Lawyer Ron Mercaldo

By Meghan Hemingway | Lawyer Limelights, Hall of Fame Limelights, Plaintiff Consumer Limelights

The Hall of Fame litigator has learned not to ask jurors for a specific damages amount, but to help them think about the worth of a limb - or a life.

April 23, 2025

Making Sense of the Senseless: Leadership and Personal Injury Law with Patrick A. Salvi II

By Emily Jackoway | Lawyer Limelights, Plaintiff Consumer Limelights

From acting as co-lead counsel in the Sterigenics litigation to serving as president of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association, Salvi is defining leadership in personal injury law.

April 21, 2025

Christopher J. Keller, Acclaimed Litigator and Visionary Leader, Dies at 54

By Alison Preece | Lawyer Limelights, Plaintiff Consumer Limelights, News & Features, Labaton Keller Sucharow

Chairman of Labaton Keller Sucharow since 2019, Keller played a central role in shaping the firm’s identity and success over more than two decades.

April 16, 2025

Our Data, Our Selves: Jeremy Lieberman on Valuation and the Cost of “Free” Tech

By Meghan Hemingway | Lawyer Limelights, Plaintiff Consumer Limelights, News & Features

Lieberman’s cases against Alphabet, Nikola Electric Trucks and Bed Bath & Beyond, among others, are highlighting big issues of privacy, bubble valuation, consolidation and third-party data sharing.

April 10, 2025

Blowing Away The Competition – Arnold & Itkin Turns Twenty

By Meghan Hemingway | Lawyer Limelights, Plaintiff Consumer Limelights

The firm boasts more than $22B in verdicts and settlements, a feat accomplished by outsmarting, outworking and out-lawyering their opponents.

April 8, 2025

Defending Julian Assange: Barry Pollack on the Historic Plea Deal and the Future of White-Collar Defense

By Emily Jackoway | Lawyer Limelights, News & Features

This past June, Pollack brokered the deal that freed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, nearly 15 years after the site's first controversial publications.

April 3, 2025

The Art of Trial Law, with Stuart Grossman of Grossman Roth Yaffa Cohen

By Emily Jackoway | Lawyer Limelights, Plaintiff Consumer Limelights

The co-founder of Grossman Roth Yaffa Cohen has spent more than 50 years creating lasting change.

April 2, 2025

Translating Intellectual Property Law for the Courtroom with Beck Redden’s Matthew Whitley

By Emily Jackoway | Lawyer Limelights

The litigation partner has been largely focused on IP law for the last decade, with significant wins on both sides of the V.

March 27, 2025

From One Plaintiff to Thousands: Making Change in Mass Tort and Environmental Law with Brockstedt Mandalas Federico’s Philip Federico

By Emily Jackoway | Lawyer Limelights, Plaintiff Consumer Limelights

Federico has won hundreds of millions of dollars against corporations in mass torts following a 35-year medical malpractice career.

March 18, 2025

Grit as a Lifestyle, with Costa Ivone Injury Lawyers Co-Founder Anthony Ivone

By Emily Jackoway | Lawyer Limelights, Plaintiff Consumer Limelights

The Chicago-based personal injury attorney grew up in Detroit and still considers himself working class, even while he earns big for injured clients.

March 12, 2025

Changing Law for Unchanging Problems: Employment Law with Wigdor’s Valdi Licul

By Emily Jackoway | Lawyer Limelights, Wigdor Features, Plaintiff Consumer Limelights

For two decades, Licul’s celebrated legal practice has been devoted exclusively to fighting on behalf of those facing discrimination and retaliation in the workplace.

March 10, 2025