Partners Kannon Shanmugam and Allison Jones Rushing, and associates Masha Hansford, Katherine Petti and Will Marks, are recognized as Law360 “Legal Lions” for U.S. Supreme Court verdict on behalf of client Midland Funding.  

Reversing an Eleventh Circuit decision, the Supreme Court ruled that Midland Funding was not liable under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act for filing claims for time-barred debts in bankruptcy proceedings.  Led by Kannon Shanmugam, the team representing Midland Funding included Allison Jones Rushing, Masha Hansford, Katherine Petti, and Will Marks.

Federal district court granted summary judgment in favor of Intel Plan Fiduciaries, including members of Intel’s retirement plan’s Investment Policy and Administrative Committees, in putative class action challenging allocations of plan assets to alternative investments. The team included John Buckley, Dan Katz, Vidya Mirmira, Patrick Kim, David Kurtzer-Ellenbogen, Juli Lund, Ava Baker, Tanya Abrams, and Catherine Wagner.

It was during the week of January 15th, 1967 that Edward Bennett Williams, Paul Connolly, and Jeremiah Collins, along with a small team of associates, formed a new firm. 

Williams & Connolly client The Republic of Paraguay secured dismissal of claims by an Italian company seeking to enforce judgments of approximately $100 million awarded in Switzerland. The enforcement proceedings were brought in the Federal District Court for the District of Columbia. Dane Butswinkas, Ana Reyes, Rich Moore, and Seth Bowers represented Paraguay in the proceedings.