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The federal jury awarded each man $60 million in damages after a monthlong trial and determined the men were coerced into giving false confessions after several days of intimidation and physical abuse, according to their attorney Joe Loevy of Loevy & Loevy in Chicago.

Kirkland chair Jon Ballis said the firm remains focused on capturing market share but also keeping clients satisfied and growing the business in the right areas.

The former legal chief at Lam Research received a sign-on bonus of $2 million and $13.3 million in stock awards at AMD

“Whatever number you are, it doesn't matter. You better be ready because, well, just look at what happened here," said Javier Lopez of Vedder Price.

U.S. District Judge Jeffrey I. Cummings addressed an issue that split the federal courts: whether satisfying the requirements of the Class Action Fairness Act can grant original jurisdiction over class actions despite the failure to satisfy requirements of the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act.

In a statement, Paul Weiss noted that Mark Pomerantz has not been affiliated with the firm for many years.

COVID-related lawsuits surged on the fifth-year anniversary of the pandemic.

The state bar's committee of bar examiners said provisional licenses should be offered to anyone who withdrew from the tech-troubled exam, not just those who fail the test.

“We revoked the clearances of deranged Jack Smith, Alvin Bragg, Letitia James and the crooked law firms that aided their partisan persecutions, Trump said at a speech at the DOJ headquarters on Friday.

The associate letter had gathered about 280 signatures from associates at firms across the Am Law 200 and beyond as of late Friday.

"You can't underestimate the value of a talking point," ArentFox Schiff partner J. Michael Showalter said of President Donald Trump's new policy invoking Rule 65(c) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure as a litigation-deterrence strategy.

Missouri 22nd Judicial Circuit Court Judge Michael Noble granted the plaintiff's motion for a new trial on Thursday, citing the “widespread misconduct of defendants Abbott Laboratories Inc. and Mead Johnson.

Aidala, Bertuna & Kamins partner Barry Kamins said the country is not in crisis mode yet, but it could happen if President Donald Trump were to defy an order of the U.S. Supreme Court. Kamins was joined on a State Bar Association panel by Carrie Cohen, a Morrison & Foerster partner and ex-federal prosecutor, who said the historically independent Manhattan U.S. attorney's office could withstand political influence.

Acting Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chair Caroline Pham is inviting companies with open compliance investigations to approach the commission with “reasonable settlement offers within the next two weeks.

With New York already having strong consumer protections on the books, one expert found the proposed Fostering Affordability and Integrity through Reasonable, or FAIR, Business Practices Act to be a signal that Attorney General Letitia James plans on increasing enforcement against consumer fraud.

U.S. District Court Judge Arun Subramanian of the Southern District of New York presided as Combs entered his plea after the government alleged two additional victims, prolonged the time frame of the charged scheme, and added claims. Trial is still expected to commence on May 5.

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