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SmithKline to Pay $5.2 Million to Settle ERISA Suit
SmithKline Beecham Corp. has agreed to pay $5.2 million to settle an ERISA class-action suit brought by workers who said they were improperly labeled temporary and therefore denied pension benefits despite working full time for months or even years.District Judge William H. Pauley U.S. DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK Shyron Bynog Plaintiff Pro Se James M. Woolsey III, Esq.
District Judge Shira A. Scheindlin U.S. DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK Appearances: For Plaintiffs: Michael J. Rovell, Esq. Alyssa E.
Class-Action Antitrust Suit Wins OK
The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has greenlighted a class-action antitrust suit brought by purchasers of corrugated paper products that accused paper manufacturers of conspiring to decrease their production so that supply would plummet and prices would rise.Laurence Miller Joins Teleflex as General Counsel
After 20 years of practicing as an associate general counsel at Aramark, the prospect of running the legal department of a public company was too good of an opportunity for Laurence G. Miller to pass up.U.S. Judge Pick for Camden Galls South Jersey
The choice of Peter Sheridan, a GOP stalwart from Mercer County, to fill a federal judgeship in Camden has riled local lawyers and politicians, who see it as yet another case of "North Jersey" carpetbagging.NALP Panel Calls for Changes to Recruiting Process
A task force at the National Association for Law Placement has recommended shortening the time in which law students have to respond to employment offers. The move comes after many firms complained that top students were holding on to multiple offers until the final days of the recruiting season, in the process freezing firms from making additional offers to a second tier of students.'Father of Modern Class Actions,' Harold Kohn, Dies
Harold E. Kohn, who has been described as one of the architects of modern class-action litigation, died yesterday in Philadelphia. The founding partner of Kohn Swift & Graf was 85 years old. Kohn won landmark cases for independent motion picture exhibitors against film studios, cases which, according to colleagues, "opened up the whole field" of antitrust class actions.A Buyer's Guide to Law Firm Software
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