By Angela Morris | August 26, 2020
Houston-based Daspit Law Firm lost its bid to force an ex-client to arbitrate a dispute over a 35% contingent fee contract, which the client alleged he was tricked into signing during a meeting at McDonald's.
By Ross Todd | August 24, 2020
U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, who is overseeing the case, broke out the Zoom mute button with one of the lead lawyers and cut off the other's attempt to argue uncited cases.
By Ross Todd | August 24, 2020
Find a quiet space with a good internet connection. Use a headset with a microphone. Be sure to take time to pause for the judge's questions. And please, put on something besides a t-shirt.
By Alaina Lancaster | August 19, 2020
"Amazon drivers have been essential workers during the coronavirus pandemic, and it is shameful that the richest man in the world, Jeff Bezos, has been able to get away with not properly paying the drivers for all of their time and depriving them of all employment protections through their misclassification as independent contractors," said lead plaintiffs counsel Shannon Liss-Riordan of Lichten & Liss-Riordan.
By Ross Todd | August 19, 2020
Getting a case down to its "gist" and to its "core," retired federal judge Nancy Gertner said, involves picking the evidence that's most favorable to your side. "That kind of selection is inevitably argument," she said, as part of a webinar on openings presented Tuesday by NITA and CVN.
By Angela Morris | August 18, 2020
A pro bono team from Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld won a preliminary injunction that stops a school district from enforcing a hair-length policy that would have forced two African American students to cut their dreadlocks, or face punishment.
By Tom McParland | August 18, 2020
The new rule allows attorneys to request permission to appear remotely on a showing of good cause.
By Michael A. Mora | August 18, 2020
A recent study found consumers not only prefer craft beer over big brand beers, but that they would pay more for the purchase of craft beer, according to the complaint.
By Scott Graham | August 18, 2020
In an early-round win for Williams-Sonoma, U.S. Magistrate Judge Alex Tse in San Francisco ruled that, whether done by human or machine, Amazon's alleged curation of user photos for product display pages takes it beyond the role of a passive host.
By Jason Grant | August 14, 2020
"This is a tremendous miscarriage of justice," Donziger said during an interview with the New York Law Journal. "The acts on which my disbarment are based are false."
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