COSRO Advogados is launching as a full-service firm with 12 partners, several of whom held prominent roles at DLA Piper and its affiliate, Campos Mello.

       

The decision, which drew a dissent from the sole Republican on the board, upends 76 years of precedent.

       

Practical strategies to explore doing business with friends and social contacts in a way that respects relationships and maximizes opportunities.

       

“K&S is the only party who has breached the settlement agreement, Thomas Bosworth alleged. He asked the court to award him attorney fees relating to the firm's motion, which he claimed “was brought in bad faith and with an intent to injure Bosworth financially.

       

The outcome of the union vote resulted in damages for the plaintiffs, including the increased operating costs and the diminished value of the hotel, the suit alleges.

       

"[The] plaintiffs have described several respects in which artificial citric acid differs from natural citric acid. Dismissal on this basis is thus inappropriate," U.S. District Judge Mary M. Rowland said, clearing the way for a products liability suit to proceed against Kraft Heinz for marketing its macaroni and cheese product as having no preservatives.

       

“I don't think that there's a single industry that's safe anymore, safe meaning like off-limits from investigations, Hogan Lovells partner Michael Bell said.

       

Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler touches on controversial cryptocurrency and climate disclosure regulations in likely valedictory speech.

       

Park, North Carolina's solicitor general, was moved out of the committee in a 11-10 vote along party lines.

       

Though Judge James Boasberg sided with the FTC, he said the "commission faces hard questions about whether its claims can hold up in the crucible of trial. Indeed, its positions at times strain this country's creaking antitrust precedents to their limits.”

       

At the motion to dismiss stage, courts usually won't consider affirmative defenses. This issue arose recently in a preferential transfer case, where a defendant sought to dismiss a complaint by arguing it was a mere conduit, not an initial transferee.

       

In Robust Missouri Dispensary 3 v. St. Louis County, the court sided with the plaintiff, concluding that only one local government is permitted under state law to impose an additional 3% sales tax on the retail sale of marijuana.        

“The Justice Department will not hesitate to check unlawful consolidation and monopolization in the health care market that threatens to harm vulnerable patients, their families, and health care workers, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said.

       

Cravath poached a team from Linklaters while Davis Polk opened a finance practice in London, in a sign of the U.K. market becoming more important for Wall Street firms.

       

Ted Olson, who argued Bush v. Gore, Citizens United and other landmark Supreme Court cases, is remembered as a legal giant after his death Wednesday.        

The protesters said Akin and A&O Shearman both received the worst possible rating in a report on which law firms take on fossil fuel related work.

       

"The court could answer each of these lingering questions in favor of either Johnson or Hertz. But at this stage, the court need not, and should not, definitively resolve these questions. Instead, Missouri state courts should have the first opportunity to determine these important issues of state law," U.S. District Judge Stephen R. Clark for the Eastern District of Missouri said.

       

“Every regulation is going to be questioned. And that'll be a better environment for many businesses once the regulations are wiped away. But they're going to have to adapt their businesses to exploit that," said Sean West, co-founder of Hence Technologies.

       

While the lawsuit is new, Terrance DeAngelo's claims echo many of the allegations made against Kline & Specter in the firm's heated dispute with another of its former associates, Thomas Bosworth.

       

Vidal, a former partner with Winston & Strawn in Silicon Valley, announced in a LinkedIn post that she would depart in December. Deputy Director Derrick Brent will succeed her as head of the USPTO.