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Jenner & Block Announces 2026 Partner and Special Counsel Promotions

Jenner & Block announced the elevation of 10 lawyers to the partnership and advancement of five lawyers to special counsel, effective January 1, 2026. ...READ MORE

Jenner & Block Team Secures $17.7 Million in Damages for Clients Kraft, Kellogg, General Mills, and Nestle

An Illinois federal jury awarded clients Kraft Heinz Co., Kellogg Co., General Mills Inc., and Nestle USA Inc. $17.7 million for the damages they suffered from the overcharges they paid due to a conspiracy to inflate the prices of eggs by the nation’s largest egg producers and two industry groups. The plaintiffs are entitled to have the $17.7 million trebled. ...READ MORE

Jenner & Block Lawyers Secure Verdict Holding Nation's Largest Egg Producers and Industry Groups Liable for Conspiring to Inflate Egg Prices

After a five-week trial, a federal jury in Illinois found that two of the largest egg producers in the nation, Cal-Maine Food and Rose Acre Farms, and two egg trade groups, United Egg Producers and United States Egg Marketers, are liable for conspiring to inflate the prices of eggs from the late 1990s through at least 2008....READ MORE

Tenth Circuit Affirms Summary Judgment on Trade Secret Claims in Double Eagle v. Hooper

The Tenth Circuit recently upheld an Oklahoma District Court’s summary judgment ruling in favor of a trade secret defendant based on insufficient specificity as to the trade secrets at issue, as well as a lack of proper secrecy over those alleged trade secrets. The case, styled as Double Eagle Alloys, Inc. v. Hooper, included claims under the Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA), Oklahoma Uniform Trade Secrets Act (OUTSA), common law misappropriation, and civil conspiracy....READ MORE

$17 Million Attorney Fee Award Aims to Deter Malicious Trade Secret Misappropriation

Singapore-based XP Power has been ordered to pay $17 million in attorneys’ fees to opponent Comet Technologies, USA, following Comet’s victory at trial. The Northern District of California issued the order in January 2025, and it follows a jury award to Comet of $40 million in unjust enrichment damages....READ MORE

California Supreme Court Breaks from Federal Precedent on PAGA

The California Supreme Court issued a much-anticipated Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) decision in Adolph v. Uber Technologies, Inc. in July 2023, departing from the US Supreme Court’s 2022 ruling in Viking River Cruises v. Moriana and holding that non-individual PAGA standing does not disappear after a plaintiff is compelled to arbitrate his or her individual PAGA claims. This plaintiff-friendly decision definitively answers this question of California law and may encourage an increase in ...READ MORE