Insights: Results

2026 Best Lawyers Awards in Canada: Marking 20 Years of Excellence

by Jamilla Tabbara

Honoring Canada’s most respected lawyers and spotlighting the next generation shaping the future of law.

Cyber Coverage Pitfalls

by Robert W. Wilkins

Institutional data breaches are, unfortunately, more common (and more costly) than ever. Cybersecurity insurance can help—but is your firm’s policy really as ironclad as you think?

Patricia Brown Holmes: A Story of Resilience and Empowerment

by Patricia Brown Holmes

Native Chicagoan Patricia Brown Holmes has built an astonishingly varied career through sheer determination and an undimmed survival instinct. Throughout, she’s been determined to help others like her do the same.

Coffey Burlington's Legal Expertise

by John Fields

Service. Integrity. Results.

Athea Trial Lawyers: Be a Part of HerStory

by Justin Smulison

Combating Nuclear Verdicts: Empirically Supported Strategies to Deflate the Effects of Anchoring Bias

by Sloan L. Abernathy

Sometimes a verdict can be the difference between amicability and nuclear level developments. But what is anchoring bias and how can strategy combat this?

The Hidden Constitutional Crisis: Maine’s Mounting Criminal Law Catastrophe

by Gregory Sirico

The number of criminal defendants lacking legal representation in Maine is skyrocketing like nowhere else in the US. Is there any stopping it?

A Historic Agreement in the Aftermath of Tragedy

by Justin Smulison

Two-time “Lawyer of the Year” Daniel J.T. Sciano represented plaintiffs from the 2017 Sutherland Springs shooting, finally reaching an agreement to settle with the U.S. Department of Justice this year. Sciano offers insight on how stronger laws can prevent repeat tragedies.

Supreme Court Slams Door on Out-of-State Plaintiffs’ Suits

by Dona Szak

In Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. v. Superior Court of California, multiple plaintiffs sued Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. (BMS) in a California state court to recover damages allegedly caused by their use of BMS’ anti-clotting drug, Plavix.

Dan Sciano Renaissance Lawyer

by Justin Smulison

Tinsman & Sciano recently celebrated 50 years as greater San Antonio’s leading trial law firm for civil litigation and personal injury. Daniel J.T. Sciano obtained judgments for his clients in both Federal and State courthouses in 2021. A trial lawyer with many talents and diverse knowledge of the law.

A Warrior for Clients

by Best Lawyers

Michael P. Lyons stands up.

Press and Publicity: How Television and Social Media Impact Legal Careers

by Justin Smulison

In recent years, with social media giving minute by minute reporting, many lawyers are finding themselves thrust into a spotlight they never planned for. How are lawyers grappling with unexpected stardom, media coverage and merciless influencers?

The Tragic Limitations of New York’s Outdated Wrongful Death Law

by David Scher

New York might be a progressive state in many respects, but its wrongful death law is itself a regressive tragedy—essentially the same statute first passed in the mid-1800s—that prolongs and deepens grieving families’ suffering. This must change.