Susan Berson and Brent Henry Recognized as Health Care Trailblazers by the National Law Journal

Kim V. Marrkand, Mintz Member and Founder and Co-Chair of the firm’s Insurance Practice, authored an article published in April 2021 by the Tort, Trial & Insurance Practice Law Journal, a publication of the American Bar Association’s Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section, that examined Section 12 of the American Law Institute’s Restatement of the Law, Liability Insurance, titled “Liability of Insurer for Conduct of Defense”, wherein Ms. Marrkand shows that Section 12 “invents wholly new rules and a cause of action without either the support of existing case law or compelling policy rationale.” Mintz Associates Mathilda McGee-Tubb and Clare Prober provided significant contributions to the article.

Mintz Member Michael Graif authored an article published by World Intellectual Property Review that examined the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent landmark decision in Google v. Oracle, which held that Google’s limited copying of code from Oracle’s Java SE Application Programming Interface constituted a fair and transformative use of that material under copyright law. Specifically, in his article, Mr. Graif unpacked a blistering 18-page dissent written by Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.

Mintz Member and Co-chair of the firm’s Financial Services Practice Pete S. Michaels and Associate Alyssa C. Scruggs co-authored an article published by the American Bar Association’s Litigation Section examining the popularity of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing and an increase in the number of activist shareholder ESG litigations, which, using creative and novel legal theories, are starting to gain traction in the courts.

Mintz Member and Chair of the firm's Project Development & Finance Practice Audrey Louison was selected to participate in Law360’s 2021 Project Finance Editorial Advisory Board, which is a designated group of attorneys that provide feedback on the publication’s project finance news coverage and insights on how best to shape future coverage.

Mintz Member Steve Ganis was quoted in a recent edition of The New York Times’ DealBook newsletter regarding the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s rulemaking to implement the Corporate Transparency Act, which is included within the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020 and requires domestic and foreign legal entities to report their beneficial ownership to the U.S. government.