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By Jack Womack | March 28, 2024
In February, Azima accepted Dechert's offer to settle the portion of their dispute playing out in London, which includes £3 million in damages and likely many million more in costs.
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By Amy Guthrie | March 26, 2024
The federal gun industry shield law should not keep the suit from moving forward, U.S. District Court Judge Rosemary Márquez ruled.
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By Paul Hodkinson | March 24, 2024
Class actions are set for significant growth across the globe and law firms that corner the market could reap big rewards, writes the Global Lawyer.
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By Jessica Seah | March 21, 2024
Quinn Emanuel, Skadden, Wilson Sonsini, Sullivan & Cromwell, Gibson Dunn and O'Melveny are all representing parties in the lawsuit.
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By Chris Niesche | March 20, 2024
The rideshare platform fought "tooth and nail" against the action, says plaintiff law firm Maurice Blackburn.
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By Amy Guthrie | March 19, 2024
The plaintiffs firm is teaming up with Dutch litigation firm Lemstra Van der Korst in an effort to secure £3 billion from Brazilian mining giant Vale and the Dutch subsidiary of its Samarco JV with Australia's BHP.
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By Alfred Olufemi | March 19, 2024
The project, which has been trialed in a few counties, is being hailed by judges and lawyers as a potential leap forward for transparency and accessibility of the legal system.
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By Rick Mitchell | March 18, 2024
Because of disagreement between the two chambers, the French legislature is already a year late in passing a national law under the 2020 EU Representative Actions Directive. Until it does, group actions and litigation funding are stalled, lawyers say.
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By Michael A. Mora | March 18, 2024
The sale of Everton FC is the deal that Pinsent Masons partner Vanessa Ford had just completed before her tragic death in September. The league is now mulling its approval of the sale.
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By Jack Womack | March 18, 2024
The importance of litigation funding in UK class actions has been in the spotlight over recent months—particularly since the renewed attention on the Post Office Horizon scandal.
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By Maria Dinzeo | April 18, 2024
AI researcher Viviane Ghaderi says Amazon pressured her to quit after she disclosed her pregnancy and fired her while she had discrimination and retaliation claims pending with the company.
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By Colleen Murphy | April 18, 2024
"There were pay equity statutes before there were pay transparency requirements which I think are sleeping giants," Christopher T. Wall of Stoel Rives, said. "There is a ton of exposure that, I think, people both on the plaintiff side and on the employer side, are not totally tuned in to. It is good to take stock of pay discrepancies that may exist and to fix those issues. That also helps protect your business from catastrophic liability."
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By Thomas J. Hall and Judith A. Archer | April 18, 2024
Several Commercial Division decisions adjudicating Anti-SLAPP law claims demonstrate the complexities that can be involved. Indeed, a recent decision dismissing claims brought by Donald Trump against The New York Times provides significant insight into the law's current application.
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By Edward E. Neiger, Alexandra Robertson and Gregory Lawrence | April 18, 2024
This issue of the Mass Torts Update addresses the United Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation ordering the consolidation of Suboxone dental injury lawsuits as centralized in the the Northern District of Ohio. It goes on to provide an update on Purdue Pharma's Chapter 11 bankruptcy case.
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By ALM Staff | April 18, 2024
We bring you the most popular case digests from the last week.
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By Ross Todd | April 18, 2024
After Wiggin and Dana partner Jonathan Freiman argued in the Second Circuit late last month and the California Supreme Court on April 3, he flew back East for a repeat argument in the Second Circuit just after the April 5 earthquake that shook the court.
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By Amanda Bronstad | April 17, 2024
U.S. District Judge Nancy Rosenstengel, who is overseeing the paraquat multidistrict litigation, found that Dr. Martin Wells, a biostatistician and epidemiologist at Cornell University, used unreliable methodologies in concluding that exposure to the pesticide increased the risks of getting Parkinson's disease.
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By Emily Cousins | April 17, 2024
"Every other piece of evidence in the case was through that classroom lens, if you will, which I think was very beneficial," plaintiff counsel Michael Kennedy said.
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By Jane Wester | April 17, 2024
U.S. District Judge Sidney Stein of the Southern District of New York summoned all the parties' lawyers to a conference this week after the attorneys indicated they were struggling to reach agreement on a stipulation to be signed by Hana's lead attorney Lawrence Lustberg of Gibbons PC.
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By Emily Saul | April 17, 2024
"You do not see the type and extent of control that Judge Merchan is exercising in every case," said one observer.
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