"I have a very varied background that I would not trade for anything," said Angela Steele, a 13-year veteran of the fast-food giant.

The contract, which is for a limited term, relates to past phases of the Horizon scandal inquiry.

The plaintiff-appellee, Armin Oskouei, an orthopedic surgeon, filed libel and slander complaints against defense attorney Zach Matthews of McMickle Kurey & Branch, alleging the latter said the plaintiff-appellee "is performing illegal surgeries," "is a back-alley doctor" and "a crook and a fraud" to a member of opposing counsel in an underlying dispute.

The firm is now adding a large corporate practice in Chicago after its 2021 merger with an IP boutique in the city.

U.S. District Judge Nancy Rosenstengel, who is overseeing the paraquat multidistrict litigation, found that Dr. Martin Wells, a biostatistician and epidemiologist at Cornell University, used unreliable methodologies in concluding that exposure to the pesticide increased the risks of getting Parkinson's disease.

After she left the University of Denver Law, "this small group actually sent flowers and candy to the chair of the dean search committee and sent cards to many other faculty members saying, 'Thank you for taking our incompetent dean off our hands,'" she shared, saying that a lot of what happened was very gendered and was a "product of the time."

In the absence of a federal statute, many states have implemented their own data privacy laws, prompting Rep. Debbie Lesko, R-Arizona, to cite concerns that a federal law would need strong preemption language.

"We believe that a continuous infusion of judgeships becomes the most critical component in any of our operations, and as you heard in my opening remarks, we need to continuously add new judges to our workforce," Judge Glenn A. Grant said. "We are at 39 [vacancies]. Probably, by the end of the summer, we will have another seven to 10 judges leave, so you are then over 50 again."

They will face more hurdles, however, as Australian regulators, like their counterparts in many other countries and regions around the world, increase their scrutiny of M&A deals.

Four litigation partners in Los Angeles, Atlanta and South Florida have joined Shook, Hardy & Bacon.

"You do not see the type and extent of control that Judge Merchan is exercising in every case," said one observer.

The plaintiff sought to file an amended complaint, which would replace her short form complaint that defines "Permanent Chemotherapy Induced Alopecia," using identical language in which the multidistrict litigation court previously rejected. Chief U.S. District Judge Michael F. Urbanski rejected the plaintiff's request and agreed with Sanofi as to each of the plaintiff's claims.

A Tuesday panel that included a member of the DOJ's Procurement Collusion Strike Force outlined some overlooked current and emerging antitrust traps being set by ambitious regulators.

The 3M petitions attempt to make the case the attorney possibly knew more than what he has admitted about a co-counsel's fraudulent acts, and was possibly a co-conspirator.

In first-of-its kind legislation, the updated Colorado Privacy Act (CPA) will consider consumer neural data as "sensitive information." California and Minnesota are likely to follow suit.

Chancellor Kathaleen St.J. McCormick concluded that shareholder plaintiffs failed to adequately plead that JPMorgan's directors knew of and ignored concerns about the bank's compliance with reimbursement laws.

Like so many other features of the MHMDA, data subject rights are deceptively complicated and have the potential to create significant administrative hurdles to getting it right. In this article, we examine the tricky issues in our MHMDA FAQs and take a deep dive into data subject rights.

Sen. Mike Lee of Utah and his GOP colleagues on the Senate Judiciary Committee raised a case Kevin Gafford Ritz handled in which a public defender accused the then-assistant U.S. attorney of making misrepresentations to a defense attorney to elicit a guilty plea.

Karen K. Caldwell, the chair of the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation and a district judge for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky, issued the order on behalf of the six-judge panel and said centralization is currently not necessary for the convenience of the parties and witnesses in order to conduct the litigation.

Two Am Law 100 firms and several plaintiff firms have entered appearances. Observers expect more lawyers to enter as litigation and investigations mount.