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The Paul, Weiss Litigation Department is led by a team of the country’s most accomplished trial lawyers. Our litigators handle the most complex and demanding lawsuits, class actions, government investigations, criminal prosecutions and restructurings. Our clients include Fortune 50 corporations and other prominent companies in the financial services, investment, medical device, pharmaceutical, sports, technology, energy, media and insurance industries. Every day, we are called on by chief executives, board chairs, general counsel, investors and entrepreneurs for our unmatched trial skills, sophisticated business judgment and renowned strategic advice.

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Damian Williams Former SDNY US Attorney Joins Paul, Weiss

Damian Williams Former SDNY US Attorney Joins Paul, Weiss

Damian Williams, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 2021 to 2024, will join the firm as a partner in the Litigation Department. Damian will draw on his extensive government and leadership experience to represent clients in high-stakes federal and state government investigations, white-collar matters and sensitive internal investigations.

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Publications

Liz Weiswasser Discusses Her Team’s Lateral Move to Paul, Weiss in <em>The American Lawyer</em>

Liz Weiswasser Discusses Her Team’s Lateral Move to Paul, Weiss in The American Lawyer

Litigation Co-Chair Liz Weiswasser spoke with The American Lawyer about her lateral move to Paul, Weiss with litigation partner Anish Desai and their work to bring over 18 other colleagues in the weeks that followed.

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Client News

Qualcomm Wins Jury Verdict Defeating Arm Chip Licensing Claims

Qualcomm Wins Jury Verdict Defeating Arm Chip Licensing Claims

Paul, Weiss won a decisive jury verdict for software and semiconductor giant Qualcomm Incorporated in a closely watched breach of contract suit brought by Arm Ltd., a UK-based semiconductor and software design company owned by SoftBank, over a technology license agreement with Qualcomm subsidiary NUVIA.

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Brad Karp and Jessica Carey Speak With <em>New York Law Journal</em> About Strength of Litigation Department

Brad Karp and Jessica Carey Speak With New York Law Journal About Strength of Litigation Department

Firm Chairman Brad Karp and Litigation Department Co-Chair Jessica Carey spoke with the New York Law Journal as part of Paul, Weiss’s recognition as a finalist for “General Litigation Department of the Year” and “Finance Litigation Department of the Year.”

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Paul, Weiss Welcomes Two Leading Life Science & Technology Litigators in New York

Paul, Weiss Welcomes Two Leading Life Science & Technology Litigators in New York

Elizabeth “Liz” Stotland Weiswasser and Anish R. Desai will join the firm as partners in its Litigation Department, resident in New York. Liz, who will be co-chair of the Litigation Department, and Anish are nationally recognized for their success representing life sciences and technology clients in their most significant complex commercial disputes.

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Client News

Citigroup Wins Major Appeal Cutting Off Efforts to Enforce Vacated Arbitration Award in France

Citigroup Wins Major Appeal Cutting Off Efforts to Enforce Vacated Arbitration Award in France

Paul, Weiss and French co-counsel at A&O Shearman won a significant victory for Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. (CGMI), when the Versailles Court of Appeal reversed an order that had allowed a former Citi client to attempt to enforce in France an arbitration award issued and vacated in the United States.

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Client News

Fifth Circuit Reverses OFAC Sanctions on Tornado Cash

Fifth Circuit Reverses OFAC Sanctions on Tornado Cash

Paul, Weiss secured a significant appellate victory for our clients in a high-profile case against the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), challenging OFAC’s addition of Tornado Cash, an open-source software project enhancing privacy on the blockchain, to the Specially Designated National and Blocked Persons list.

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Client News

Deutsche Bank Wins Ninth Circuit Affirmance of Dismissal in ICE LIBOR Antitrust Lawsuit

Deutsche Bank Wins Ninth Circuit Affirmance of Dismissal in ICE LIBOR Antitrust Lawsuit

Paul, Weiss secured a significant appellate victory for Deutsche Bank, when the Ninth Circuit affirmed a lower court’s 2023 dismissal of a lawsuit alleging that several major banks conspired to fix the London Interbank Interest Rate (LIBOR) and that the setting of USD ICE LIBOR is per se unlawful under the antitrust laws.

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Carnival Corporation Wins Reversal of First-of-Its-Kind Judgment Over Use of Havana Docks

Carnival Corporation Wins Reversal of First-of-Its-Kind Judgment Over Use of Havana Docks

Paul, Weiss won a significant appellate victory for Carnival Corporation when the Eleventh Circuit reversed a $440 million, first-of-its-kind judgment under the Helms-Burton Act for the allegedly improper use of docks in Havana that were seized by Fidel Castro’s government after the Cuban Revolution.

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Client News

Coinbase Secures Complete Dismissal of Putative Class Action Concerning its Listing of the Digital Asset UST

Coinbase Secures Complete Dismissal of Putative Class Action Concerning its Listing of the Digital Asset UST

Paul, Weiss achieved a significant victory for publicly traded cryptocurrency exchange platform Coinbase when the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California granted in full Coinbase’s motion to dismiss a putative class action concerning Coinbase’s listing of the algorithmic stablecoin UST. 

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Client News

Nikola Defeats Lawsuits by Former CEO

Nikola Defeats Lawsuits by Former CEO

Paul, Weiss secured a significant victory for Nikola Corp. and certain current and former officers and directors in litigation brought by Nikola’s founder and former CEO and Executive Chairman Trevor Milton.

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Publications

Karen Dunn Discusses Paul, Weiss’s Litigation Department Priorities With <em>LEADERS</em> Magazine

Karen Dunn Discusses Paul, Weiss’s Litigation Department Priorities With LEADERS Magazine

LEADERS Magazine interviewed litigation partner Karen Dunn about what distinguishes the firm’s Litigation Department in the market; her current priorities as the department’s co-chair; her path to Paul, Weiss; and the importance of pro bono, among other topics.

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Client News

Northwestern University Publishes Paul, Weiss Report Following Independent Review

Northwestern University Publishes Paul, Weiss Report Following Independent Review

As reported by the Chicago Tribune, Bloomberg Law, CBS News and others, Paul, Weiss completed its independent review of the processes and accountability mechanisms in place at Northwestern University to detect, report and respond to potential misconduct in its athletic programs, including hazing, bullying and discrimination.

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Client News

NFL Wins Appeal Compelling Former Coach Gruden to Arbitration in Email Scandal Dispute

NFL Wins Appeal Compelling Former Coach Gruden to Arbitration in Email Scandal Dispute

Paul, Weiss achieved a major victory when the Nevada Supreme Court ruled that former Las Vegas Raiders head coach Jon Gruden was required to arbitrate his claims against the NFL and Commissioner Roger Goodell, reversing the lower court’s decision denying the NFL’s motion to compel arbitration.

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