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Lawsuits Are Flying Over PFAS. But Can Plaintiffs Prove Actual Injury?

Mon, 2024-03-18 05:00

"It just makes it sound like everybody can sue over it, and that does not seem workable for our legal system," attorney John Galvin said.

       

Kirkland Crosses $7B Mark, With Steady And Countercyclical Business Drivers

Mon, 2024-03-18 05:00

The firm continued to improve its profit margin, as average PEP rose nearly 6% to $7.955 million, according to American Lawyer reporting.

       

'A Practical Impossibility': Trump Says He Can't Immediately Secure Appeal Bond

Mon, 2024-03-18 00:35

The former president needs to post a bond covering the entire judgment by next week, or the New York Attorney General can begin seizing his assets. His lawyers want an appeals court to stay execution.

       

National Association of Realtors Reaches $418M Settlement to Resolve Antitrust Class Actions

Mon, 2024-03-18 00:13

"Probably the largest transaction that people will make is buying or selling a home, so for most Americans, being able to save a significant amount of money in connection with that transaction is really meaningful, and it's one of the reasons I wanted to work on this," Plaintiffs' attorney, Robert A. Braun of Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll, told Law.com.

       

The Alabama IVF Decision: Right Result, Potentially Dangerous Rationale

Mon, 2024-03-18 00:00

The decision of the Alabama Supreme Court in LaPage v. Center for Reproductive Medicine, allowing the parents whose embryos were kept in a cryogenic nursery and were negligently destroyed to sue the company that had control of them, is a fair result. Although there is language in the opinion for the court, as well as in the concurring opinions, that has caused considerable and justified concern.

       

Another Defendant Says Motley Rice Should Be Disqualified From Opioid Litigation

Fri, 2024-03-15 18:52

Express Scripts Inc., a pharmacy benefit manager facing upcoming bellwether trials over the opioid crisis, filed a March 13 brief referencing a subpoena that Motley Rice member Linda Singer sent to the company on behalf of the City of Chicago.

       

'Not Generative AI': Investors, Customers Call Out Legal Tech's 'AI Washing'

Fri, 2024-03-15 17:53

AI washing isn't new to the legal tech industry, but legal tech customers and investors say the practice has exacerbated in the age of generative AI, from providers repackaging decade-old offerings to others launching tools that are essentially "ChatGPT wrappers."

       

DLA Piper Posts 8th Consecutive Year of Revenue Growth Thanks to 'Horizontal Scale'

Fri, 2024-03-15 17:49

Diversified practice areas and geographies continue to prove fruitful for the global law firm.

       

Will Special Counsel's Exit Make Big Impact on Election Interference Case?

Fri, 2024-03-15 17:25

"That's going to be a major cost, to find a new special prosecutor or to bring the prosecution [up to speed]," Emory University law professor John Acevedo said, noting it may cause delays.

       

Washington Becomes Second State to Adopt Alternative Pathways to the Bar

Fri, 2024-03-15 17:16

"I am very pleased that the Supreme Court adopted the Task Force's recommendations, and am proud of our Task Force," said Anthony E. Varona, Seattle University School of Law dean and co-chair of the WBLTF.

       

Romancing With AI? Suit Claims Bots Pose as Suitors on Tinder

Fri, 2024-03-15 16:41

The developer of the CupidBot app that uses AI to let human users screen, rate and talk to women in their place repeatedly denied the activity was affecting Match Group sites, the complaint asserts.

       

Nurse Files Suit Over 'Mock Shooter Drill,' Wrongful Termination for Voicing Concerns

Fri, 2024-03-15 16:32

This case was first surfaced by Law.com Radar.

       

Lewis Brisbois Loses Minneapolis Product Liability Group In Move To Husch Blackwell

Fri, 2024-03-15 15:54

The upcoming departures amount to nearly half of Lewis Brisbois' Minneapolis-based partnership.

       

Feds Want Sam Bankman-Fried Sentenced to 50 Years

Fri, 2024-03-15 15:45

In their memo, prosecutors described Bankman-Fried's actions as "one of the largest financial frauds in history, and what is likely the largest fraud in the last decade."

       

Sui Generis: Draft Leases Like You Mean It

Fri, 2024-03-15 15:42

The automatic acceptance of various boilerplate clauses in commercial leases in the face of jurisprudential modernity and evolving legal approaches is dangerous. The evolutionary exploits of a commercial lease aren't done yet, nor should they be.

       

Courthouse News Services Files Suit Over DC Superior Court's Delayed Filing Policy

Fri, 2024-03-15 15:40

This complaint was first surfaced by Law.com Radar.

       

Social Media Ads Inject New Angle in Ozempic Cases: 'It's Going to Be a Huge Focus'

Fri, 2024-03-15 15:40

The proliferation of advertising on social media for Ozempic and related drugs will be a key part of the lawsuits against Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly.

       

CuraLinc Sues Former Employee Over Negative Glassdoor Review

Fri, 2024-03-15 15:25

This complaint was first surfaced by Law.com Radar.

       

'A Tremendous Financial Burden': Medical Providers File Class Action Lawsuits Against Change Healthcare Over Data Breach

Fri, 2024-03-15 15:19

"In the case of the plaintiff, she had to get money out of her retirement account to make payroll, purchase medications for patients and pay operating expenses because they were unable to get claims either pre-authorized, or if they were submitted, they weren't able to get them paid," Thomas A. Zimmerman, Jr., a Chicago-based attorney at the Zimmerman Law Offices told Law.com. "This is causing a tremendous financial burden on the healthcare providers."

       

'Troubling Dicta': Dissenting Judges Say Nuclear Waste Ruling Deepens Circuit Split

Fri, 2024-03-15 14:50

"This exercise of jurisdiction has grave consequences for regulated entities' settled expectations," Fifth Circuit Judge Stephen Higginson wrote in dissent.

       

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