Willkie Practitioner Handbook Series
The Willkie Practitioner Handbook Series provides litigators, in-house counsel, and industry leaders with practical guidance on high-stakes areas of law, including class action litigation, antitrust and intellectual property, insurance recovery, corporate governance, prediction markets, and public pension reform. Each volume distills complex legal topics into accessible, actionable resources with analytical frameworks for real-world application.
The Series
- The Class Action Litigation Handbook: A comprehensive guide for litigators covering class certification under Rule 23, federal and state court jurisdiction, motion practice strategy, arbitration and mass arbitration, and class action settlement procedures.
- The Intersection of Antitrust and Intellectual Property: A Practitioner's Handbook: An in-depth examination of the legal tension between patent rights and antitrust enforcement, including Walker Process fraud claims, Hatch-Waxman reverse payment litigation, and FRAND licensing disputes.
- Insurance Recovery Litigation: Key Topics and Considerations: A practical reference for policyholders and coverage litigators on insurance recovery, including notice-of-claim requirements, the duty to defend and indemnify, coverage denial disputes, subrogation, and damages.
- Analysis and Comparison of Illinois and Delaware Corporate Governance Law: A side-by-side comparison of Illinois and Delaware corporate governance law, covering officer and director liability, fiduciary duties of care and loyalty, shareholder inspection rights under 8 Del. C. § 220 and 805 ILCS 5/7.75, and derivative shareholder claims.
- State of Play: Prediction Market Exchanges: A comprehensive look at the rapidly evolving legal and regulatory landscape of prediction market exchanges, including multistate and federal litigation, the gambling-versus-derivatives debate, proposed legislation, and CFTC rulemaking.
- Legal and Practical Challenges Facing Illinois and Chicago Public Pensions: An examination of the deepening Illinois and Chicago public pension crisis, the largest state-level pension debt in the nation, and the constitutional barriers to reform.