Keith Hansbrough claims the firm's Cleveland office managing shareholder failed to address harassment allegedly perpetrated against him by another shareholder and engaged in harassment of her own. The firm has sought to have the case dismissed or move it into arbitration.

       

In oral arguments Wednesday, the former Chapman University Law School dean repeated disputed claims that Vice President Mike Pence could have stopped the 2020 Electoral College count. Eastman "didn't tell his lies in a vaccum" and caused public harm, a prosecutor said.

       

A $4.5 million grant last year to Tonit Calaway was part of an executive retention effort at the automotive parts maker

       

Nine committee members voted to release the bill on its merits, leaving one more hurdle for Senate Bill 21 to clear before it goes to the desk of Delaware Gov. Matt Meyer.

       

The firings of Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Kelly Slaughter directly challenge the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark 1935 decision Humphrey's Executor v. United States, legal experts said.        

"These allegations easily implicate the services performed by Esbrook for the former clients 'as a lawyer.' These allegations clearly meet the low bar of 'potentially' arising out of the performance of 'legal services,' which is all that is required to trigger a duty to defend," U.S. District Judge LaShonda A. Hunt said in a suit against the firm's legal-malpractice carrier.

       

"Defendants' conduct and actions were despicable and were done maliciously, oppressively and fraudulently, with a willful and conscious disregard of plaintiffs' and class members' rights," the complaint alleged, "thereby subjecting plaintiffs and class members to unjust hardship and distress."

       

“I'm carefully watching the reactions of various firms, or the lack thereof, and I feel it's my duty to vote with my pocketbook in terms of where I want to send my business in the future, a clothing company GC said.

       

Winston & Strawn tied up with with Yuanda after the Chinese firm broke up with Chicago-based McDermott Will & Emery when it pulled out of its 13-year alliance and operations in China in 2020.

       

Lawyers are fighting back against the Trump administration's revocation of security clearances at top U.S. law firms and its interference with prosecutors and the International Criminal Court.

       

Fort Worth is suing the U.S. government and 29 chemical makers for $420 million over contamination of its drinking water by "forever chemicals." And now a judge has ordered the case broken up because it was too big and untenable. The City of Fort Worth applied to be part of multi-district litigation in South Carolina, which has had more than 10,000 associated cases opened as direct filed or transferred, comprised of tens of thousands of plaintiffs.

       

Paul Hastings on Monday knocked out $1.2 billion in damages claims on behalf of Chinese electric vehicle company BYD and its North American subsidiary, Global Healthcare, during arbitration in a breach-of-contract dispute with a Florida healthcare provider network.

       

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Chief U.S. District Judge James Boasberg of the District of Columbia, a former prosecutor who gained a tough-on-crime reputation, finds himself surrounded by controversy in the wake of his ruling over deportation of alleged Venezuelan gang members.

       

In a statement, Buzbee said his co-counsel “who are formally admitted will continue to represent plaintiffs in the federal actions and called his lack of admission an "administrative issue.

       

The boutique looks to build off the success of Gupta Wessler, the firm founded in 2012 by public interest litigator Deepak Gupta that has racked up victories at the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of consumers and workers.

       

The government had interpreted the TRO to apply only to agencies named as defendants, not to all agencies subject to the executive order, Perkins Coie said in court documents.

       

U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman said transferred Mahmoud Khalil's case to New Jersey, citing a requirement that the habeas corpus petition be heard in the district where he was physically located when the application was filed.

       

“ Stopping the IP theft from American companies by foreign countries is not just an economic issue anymore. With the advancement of AI, it is a national security issue, said Horacio Gutierrez, chief legal officer at the Walt Disney Co.