Litigation Commentary & Review

By LCA Fellow Matthew E. Feinberg of PilieroMazza PLLC Busy Business, Inc. is a successful commercial company offering products and services to the federal government and the private sector.

In Chicago’s toughest courtrooms, where the stakes are counted in years of freedom and eight-figure verdict exposure, LCA Fellow Steven B. Borkan has built a reputation that travels ahead of him. Plaintiffs’ lawyers know the type: polished, fearless, relentless. The kind of defense trial lawyer who doesn’t just “handle” cases – he owns them.

For more than three decades, Ross Fishman has occupied an unusual position in the legal profession. He is known to many lawyers as a speaker – fast, funny, practical, and unusually fluent in the way lawyers think. But his larger influence has come through a different role: helping successful law firms explain why they are different. That has become one of the central challenges in modern legal marketing. Most good firms can describe what they do.

Krevolin Horst (KH) is proud to announce that Co-Managing Partner and LCA Fellow Joyce Gist Lewis was honored with the Professionalism Award at the Atlanta Bar Association’s 2026 Spring Gala. The Professionalism Award is one of the Atlanta Bar Association’s highest honors, recognizing attorneys who exemplify excellence, integrity, professionalism, and a deep commitment to public responsibility in the practice of law.

High-stakes litigation rarely turns on a single issue. It turns on judgment — what matters, what doesn’t, and how to bring clarity to a case that has spent years becoming more complicated. That is where great trial lawyers separate themselves. LCA Fellow Jonathan Kitchen recently delivered a complete defense victory in a long-running construction class action involving national residential homebuilder Taylor Morrison.

By LCA Fellows Allegra Lawrence-Hardy and Lisa Haldar of Krevolin Horst LLC (Originally Published in Law360 on March 4, 2026, 5:49 PM EST) Recent executive branch initiatives and related developments have suggested that diversity, equity and inclusion is on the verge of legal collapse. But the courts are telling a different story by doing what courts usually do: issue decisions. Three recent DEI-adjacent decisions point in the same direction.

D’Amico Pettinicchi Injury Lawyers and the Power of Prepared Advocacy In Connecticut courtrooms, when a case involves catastrophic injury, preventable death, or nursing home neglect, one name is consistently spoken with respect: D’Amico Pettinicchi Injury Lawyers. For nearly four decades, the four-lawyer boutique has built a reputation as one of the state’s premier plaintiff-side trial firms — focused, relentless, and deeply human in its approach.

In the high-stakes world of insurance and commercial litigation, results matter — and so does reliability. In just six years, Strauss Massey Dinneen has quietly built a reputation as one of the Gulf South’s most formidable litigation boutiques, offering national-caliber advocacy from its offices in New Orleans and Gulfport, Mississippi.

LCA Fellow Jordan M. Goodman doesn’t practice “tax law” in the ordinary sense. He operates in the high-stakes, high-velocity world of state and local tax (SALT), where the rules change constantly, the facts are messy, the dollars are enormous, and the wrong answer can cost a multistate company real money — fast. For Fortune 1000 corporations and wealthy families, SALT is not a footnote. It is a battleground.

In the high-stakes world of insurance and commercial litigation, results matter — and so does reliability. In just six years, Strauss Massey Dinneen has quietly built a reputation as one of the Gulf South’s most formidable litigation boutiques, offering national-caliber advocacy from its offices in New Orleans and Gulfport, Mississippi.