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Trends and Takeaways From a New Boutique Class-Action Defense Firm With 4 Dismissals in 4 Months

"It's rare for a class action defense practice at even a big firm to get four 'with prejudice' motion to dismiss wins in a year, much less a new, 10-lawyer firm to get four in a little over a month," firm co-founder Ryan Watstein said.
6 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Report on Lead Cables Sparks Litigation Surge Against Verizon—and Other Companies Could Be Next

The lawsuits draw on reporting from the Wall Street Journal asserting that lead-sheathed cables that various telecom companies inherited from Bell System are leaching lead into the environment.
3 minute read

International Edition

Slaughter and May Agrees to Meet Lawyer Climate Pressure Group

Slaughter is first large U.K. firm to engage with the climate group, which asks lawyers to pledge to withhold their services on matters that could support 'new fossil fuel projects'.
2 minute read

Corporate Counsel

International Regulators' Unease With AI Data-Scraping Creates Gulf With US

"Mass data scraping of personal information can constitute a reportable data breach in many jurisdictions," an international group of privacy watchdogs warned.
7 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

The Impact of Media on Litigation: The Frustrating Framework Behind Measurement of Effect on Client Matters and Outcomes

Understanding the impact of media coverage on your client's matter, as well as having the ability to respond on their behalf to its effects, is critical to being a successful lawyer today.
7 minute read

Daily Business Review

Ex-Holland & Knight Media Co-Chair Sandy Bohrer Leaves Retirement to Join Boutique Grossman Roth Yaffa Cohen

"This law firm functions as a team," Bohrer said. "They're all supportive of each other. It's not like in a Big Law firm, where people are competing for that partnership spot."
3 minute read

Delaware Law Weekly

Del. Superior Court Finds Smartmatic Can Continue Defamation Case Against Newsmax

It's not the first rejection Newsmax has faced in the court, with Davis denying a motion for judgment on the pleadings in the Smartmatic case in February and in June 2022 declining to grant Newsmax's motion to dismiss claims brought by U.S. Dominion Inc. in its separate defamation case.
3 minute read

Law.com

'No More Straight White Males': Former Gannett Employees File Reverse Discrimination Lawsuit Against Media Giant

This complaint was first surfaced by Law.com Radar.
5 minute read

Law.com

Joining 'Majority of Courts,' Federal Judge Finds Cellphones Entitled to TCPA Protection, OKs Case to Proceed

"The parties dispute whether Tessu's cellphone qualifies for protection because Congress intended the Do-Not-Call Registry 'to protect residential subscribers' privacy rights.' 47 U.S.C. § 227(c)(1). AdaptHealth contends that a cell phone cannot be a residential telephone under the TCPA. Plaintiff argues that it can, citing the 2003 FCC Order," Gallagher wrote.
6 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Lawyer Stepping Aside Who Helped Shape Charter Communications Into No. 2 Cable Operator

David Ellen played a key role in the transformation of the cable industry, first as general counsel of Cablevision before its $17.7 billion sale in 2016 and then as a senior executive at Charter as it digested nearly $100 billion in acquisitions.
3 minute read

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