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Scott Flaherty, based in New York, covers the business of law with a focus on legal ethics, lawyer misconduct, conflicts-of-interest and litigation involving law firms. He can be reached at [email protected]. On Twitter: @sflaherty18
February 2, 2015 | Litigation Daily
Since it was founded in 2012, the IP boutique Fisch Sigler has made its name with defense wins for the likes of Amazon.com and the Gap. The firm showed its versatility on Monday, scoring an appellate reversal for plaintiff Papst Licensing in a case against a slew of digital camera makers.
By Scott Flaherty
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February 2, 2015 | Litigation Daily
Weil, Gotshal & Manges just keeps chipping away at 6-year-old allegations that Procter & Gamble's Fixodent denture glue causes neurological damage.
By Scott Flaherty
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February 1, 2015 | Litigation Daily
Siding with Daimler AG's lawyers at Shearman & Sterling, a federal judge in Chicago threw out a patent for detecting if a driver is impaired.
By Scott Flaherty
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January 29, 2015 | Litigation Daily
Pfizer Inc. and a phalanx of defense lawyers spent five years trying to defeat an investor class action related to off-label drug marketing. But Robbins Geller kept the case alive until a looming trial pressured the drug maker to cut a $400 million deal.
By Scott Flaherty
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January 29, 2015 | The American Lawyer
U.S. v. Newman and Chiasson; In Re Forex Benchmark Rates and Antitrust Litigation; Harris Country v. International Paper; In re Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities; SimpleAir v. Google
By David Bario, Scott Flaherty and Rebekah Mintzer
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January 28, 2015 | New York Law Journal
Securities class action filings rose slightly from 2013 to 2014, but the cases involved some of the smallest investor losses on record as companies in the S&P 500 index skirted much of the litigation, according to a report released Tuesday.
By Amanda Bronstad and Scott Flaherty
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January 28, 2015 | Commercial Litigation Insider
Less than a month after JPMorgan Chase & Co. reached a settlement in the case, U.S. District Judge Lorna Schofield refused to dismiss consolidated class action claims against a group of financial industry giants including Bank of America Corp., Barclays PLC and Citigroup Inc. Schofield held that the plaintiffs plausibly alleged an antitrust conspiracy in which the banks' top forex traders agreed to rig the market for more than a decade.
By Scott Flaherty
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January 28, 2015 | Commercial Litigation Insider
A rising tide may lift all boats, but a rising stock market may be helping to sink the fortunes of the securities class action plaintiffs bar. That's one conclusion you might draw from a new report out Tuesday from Cornerstone Research and Stanford Law School's Securities Class Action Clearinghouse, which found that the number, size and intensity of securities litigation filings were at or near historic lows in 2014.
By Scott Flaherty
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January 28, 2015 | Litigation Daily
A Manhattan federal judge on Wednesday delivered an early-inning win to plaintiffs lawyers at Hausfeld LLP and Scott & Scott in a suit accusing a dozen major banks of widespread manipulation of the $5 trillion-a-day foreign exchange market.
By Scott Flaherty
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January 28, 2015 | Litigation Daily
Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that bond purchasers can try to revive antitrust claims over alleged manipulation of the Libor interest rate, other key Libor plaintiffs are urging a judge not to leave them on the sidelines.
By Scott Flaherty
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Associate attorney position at NJ Immigration Law firm: Leschak & Associates, LLC, based in Freehold, NJ, is looking for a full time ass...
Duane Morris LLP has an immediate opening for a senior level, highly motivated litigation associate to join its dynamic and growing Employme...
MELICK & PORTER, LLP PROMOTES CONNECTICUT PARTNERS HOLLY ROGERS, STEVEN BANKS, and ALEXANDER AHRENS
