As part of the firm’s client partnering pro bono initiative, Winston attorneys and members of Cisco’s legal department recently teamed up to help 12 migrant families file for asylum. This pro bono collaboration continues Winston’s ongoing participation in New York City’s Asylum Application Help Center, which Mayor Eric Adams launched in response to the migrant crisis in July. More than 100,000 migrants and asylum seekers have arrived in NYC since the beginning of the year.

On April 14, 2022, plaintiff AK Meeting IP LLC (AK Meeting) filed its Amended Complaint, alleging that defendant Cisco Systems, Inc. (Cisco) infringed two of its patents related to a method and system for content sharing and communications between client computers in a computer network. Cisco then filed a 12(c) Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings on July 14, 2022.