Elena MarieOlivieri

The Seventh Circuit Bar Association honored a Jenner & Block team with its Pro Bono & Public Service Award for their work in Paris v. Wexford Health Sources, Inc.—a pro bono matter that secured accountability for systemic failures in prison healthcare and a measure of justice for a family that suffered a devastating loss.

During her incarceration at Decatur Correctional Center, Vikki Paris was denied adequate surveillance testing for bladder cancer. That failure would cost Vikki her life.

Google again made antitrust headlines last week when a federal judge issued a 115-page decision finding that Google violated federal antitrust law by unlawfully establishing a monopoly in digital advertising markets relied upon by website publishers and advertisers. In this client alert, we highlight the key issues and takeaways from the decision, and what to expect in the upcoming remedies proceeding.

Jenner & Block has published the 2023 edition of Protecting Confidential Legal Information: A Handbook Analyzing Issues under the Attorney-Client Privilege and the Work Product Doctrine, a comprehensive look at issues related to attorney-client privilege and the work product doctrine. First published in 1984, the guide remains one of the firm’s most popular publications and an invaluable resource.

In recent years, the U.S. Department of Justice has tried three criminal no-poach cases to a jury, and in all three the defendants were acquitted. But expect the crackdown on the use of allegedly illegal no-poach agreements between employers to continue.

On July 14, Partners Douglas Litvack and Christopher Abbott, Associate Elena Olivieri, and Summer Associate Adam Henderson will join the American Bar Association for a program on recent antitrust developments. The webinar will focus on Q2 2022 activity in the health care and pharmaceuticals sectors. Register for the webinar here. Mr. Litvack is co-chair of the firm’s Antitrust and Competition Law Practice. He represents both plaintiffs and defendants in complex antitrust litigation and appeals a

On July 15, the firm submitted an amicus brief, pro bono, on behalf of 16 iconic Chicagoland museums and cultural institutions that oppose efforts to block construction of the Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park.

On May 6, our client Kenneth “Ken” Smith was released from state prison after serving 19 years for a murder and robbery that he did not commit.

In Cordell Sanders v. Michael Melvin, et al., the district court dismissed a plaintiff’s entire case as a sanction based on imprecise allegations the plaintiff — who is mentally ill and had been housed in solitary confinement for years—had included in their years-old, pro se complaint, and did so despite that a pending summary judgment motion showed a factual dispute regarding those allegations. This dismissal is now on appeal.