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Washington – June 6, 2024: Crowell & Moring earned 78 rankings for 67 lawyers, as well as 41 national and statewide practice area rankings, in the Chambers USA 2024 guide. The rankings are driven by independent interviews of clients and lawyers at peer firms.

Washington, D.C. – January 13, 2015: Crowell & Moring LLP is pleased to announce the publication of its third annual "Litigation Forecast: What Corporate Counsel Need to Know in the Coming Year," and the introduction of its first-ever "Regulatory Forecast 2015: What Corporate Counsel Need to Know in the Coming Year."

On January 24, 2025, the United States Supreme Court agreed to hear a case that could resolve whether putative Rule 23(b)(3) classes may be certified in the federal courts when some of the class members are uninjured. Or, as the Supreme Court put the certified question in the case, Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings, dba Labcorp, v. Luke Davis, et al., No. 22-55873:

On May 13, 2021, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) revised its Interim Public Health Recommendations for Fully Vaccinated People.  Since the CDC’s April 27, 2021, guidance for vaccinated people, which Crowell & Moring summarized here, the CDC has loosened its recommendations for individuals who are fully vaccinated.  The key changes are that (1) fully vaccinated people no longer need to wear a mask or physically distance in any setting, except where required by federal, state, local, tribal, or territorial laws, rules, and regulations, including local business and workplace guidance; and (2) fully vaccinated people need not take a COVID test following a known exposure, unless they are residents or employees of a correctional or detention facility or a homeless shelter.

On January 20, 2016, the U.S. Supreme Court held 6-3 in Campbell-Ewald Company v. Gomez, No. 14-857 (2016), that the plaintiff's Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) claim is not mooted by an unaccepted settlement offer, including a Fed. R. Civ. P. 68 offer of judgment. The decision is considered a substantial victory for consumer class action claimants, but may not foreclose all potential use of Rule 68 offers as a defense in class actions.

A trend in product liability litigation has emerged over the past few years: Plaintiffs’ attorneys are increasingly choosing to bring class actions based on “economic loss” instead of the more traditional personal injury claim.

Crowell & Moring’s Advertising & Product Risk Management Group presents our second annual seminar on crisis management.  Legal, business and public relations professionals will examine ways to reduce, and in some cases, eliminate the risk of a product crisis throughout the product lifecycle. From concept design through product launch, our panelists will discuss their approaches to minimizing the risk of product defects, port seizures, advertising claims, and class action litigation.

Contract negotiation skills and contract dispute experience are two great things that work even better together.  Some common contract provisions frequently generate litigation, either because they are unclear as drafted, or because they operate in an unexpected and undesirable way.  At Crowell & Moring, our corporate lawyers and our commercial litigators take a collaborative approach, using integrated corporate and litigation strategies to draft and structure contracts to reduce the likelihood of disputes.