Publication Legaltech News Reporting, and expert analysis of legal technology with a focus onwhat legal departments, law firms, and tech companies need to know The Cooper Firm partner Rebekah Cooper and ALM Media Senior Litigation Reporter and Legal Speak Podcast Co-Host Cedra Mayfield talk shop after riding in a self-driving Waymo rideshare in Atlanta. Already a subscriber? Log In. Questions about group subscriptions? Contact an Account Specialist at [email protected] | 1-855-808-4530 (Americas) | 44(0) 800 098 386009 (UK & Europe) NOT FOR REPRINT © 2026 ALM Global, LLC, All Rights Reserved. Request academic re-use from www.copyright.com. All other uses, submit a request to [email protected]. For more information visit Asset & Logo Licensing. Runners-up this week include litigators at Gibson Dunn and Sidley Austin. Runners-up for the cycle that closed on April 1 include teams at Shook, Hardy & Bacon, Foley Hoag, Gibson Dunn and Kirkland. “A lot of times our clients are globally trying to manage timing and strategy related to patents—not only litigation, but patent filings and potential litigations. That requires looking across jurisdictions for each of our individual clients.” Gibson Dunn’s Ted Boutrous, Katie Townsend and of counsel Susan Pelletier made the case that the new policy, which led to an exodus of journalists from the Pentagon, failed to provide notice of what routine newsgathering practices would result in the revocation of press credentials. Runners-up this week include teams that represented plaintiffs in the first two trials in cases seeking to hold social media companies liable for harms to adolescent users.