By Alaina Lancaster | July 3, 2023
Defense attorneys from King & Spalding and Debevoise & Plimpton hemmed in the potential global scope of the class by convincing U.S. Senior District Judge Phyllis Hamilton to limit the case to U.S. investors.
National Law Journal | Analysis
By Linda A. Thompson | June 29, 2023
Germany, the Netherlands, France and Spain have emerged as key jurisdictions, while firms such as Linklaters, Dentons and Freshfields feel they are well placed to win work.
By Alaina Lancaster | June 28, 2023
The lawsuit likens Open AI's alleged privacy violations to complaints against Clearview AI for scraping photos off the internet for commercial gain.
By Amanda Bronstad | June 23, 2023
3M's $12.5 billion deal to resolve lawsuits brought by hundreds of water providers is one of the largest settlements to date involving contaminated drinking water, but it's a fraction of its legal liability involving 'forever chemicals.'
National Law Journal | Analysis
By Christine Schiffner | June 23, 2023
The polarized nature of society—and therefore the jury pool—has plaintiffs lawyers spending more on focus groups and mock juries to get their story just right.
By Amanda Bronstad | June 22, 2023
"This historic settlement is the largest amount ever paid by a single company to resolve claims involving contaminated drinking water and provides compensation critical to protecting our nation's drinking water supplies and upgrading our water treatment infrastructure to deal with this new threat," said Paul Napoli, a partner at Napoli Shkolnik and co-lead counsel for the plaintiffs.
By Amanda Bronstad | June 22, 2023
Co-lead class counsel Derek Loeser and Lesley Weaver defended their fee request: 'This was a hard-fought litigation over five years that yielded the largest privacy class action recovery to date and the most Facebook has ever paid to resolve a class action.'
By Amanda Bronstad | June 22, 2023
In motions filed this week, Southwest Airlines cited the "first-to-file" rule in arguing that three California class actions should be dismissed or transferred to Louisiana, where one lawsuit is pending.
By Michael A. Mora | June 20, 2023
"I owned a total of 4,000 Voyager tokens and sold a total of about 400 tokens," said Mark Cuban, a defendant in the Voyager Digital Ltd. class action. "So the concept of insider trading, particularly when there's no conversation with the CEO around that time, is ridiculous."
By Amanda Bronstad | June 20, 2023
In multidistrict litigation dockets created in 2022, about 13% of plaintiffs lawyers appointed to leadership posts were not white, according to Law.com's exclusive data. That's down from the 16% in 2021, and 14% in 2020, but up from 2016 to 2019, when white attorneys dominated with 95% of appointments.
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