More than 100 cases have been filed so far this year, according to ALM's Law.com Radar, which tracks new cases filed in state and federal courts.

"This mass tort is going to end up being one of the most important litigations in recent history," said R. Brent Wisner, a partner at Wisner Baum.

The high court concluded the trial court erroneously refused a jury instruction supporting the defendants' theory that the patient could have sustained a traumatic brain injury from a fall from other means than what was presented by the plaintiff.

Commercial Division was already hearing tech cases, and that litigants have long been allowed to have court-appointed referees preside over their commercial disputes, prior to the chief administrative judge's order. But the court's advisory council recommended adding specific language to its rules to better educate the bar on the court's offerings.

The complaint alleges that mayor Tiffany Henyard's former assistant was drugged and sexually assaulted by a trustee for the Village of Dolton, Andrew Holmes, while on a work-related trip to Las Vegas for a conference Henyard was attending.

"Boeing repeatedly provided shoddy and incomplete work product ... Boeing also substantially underdelivered intellectual property and technical artifacts essential to the Mothership program," the lawsuit said.

Walcott jumped aboard Pinterest in November 2022, enticed by CEO Bill Ready, a former colleague, to join the effort to turbocharge the image-sharing platform's performance.

Chief U.S. Magistrate Judge Timothy J. Sullivan granted Walmart Real Estate Business Trust and Sam's Club Real Estate Business Trust $1.3 million and $837,689, respectively, after the defendant, Quarterfield Partners, promised the companies an option to purchase their leased properties after 10 years, but failed to issue the notices or negotiate the sale of the properties as required under the lease.

Andy Birchfield, of Beasley Allen, took the stand on Wednesday to fend off Johnson & Johnson's allegations that he breached his ethical duties by working with one of its former lawyers to come up with a proposed $19 billion talc settlement.

In other Paris moves, Herbert Smith Freehills got back a veteran banking and finance partner from a French firm, and a veteran Big Law arbitration partner started his own firm.

""Since the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, every other court that has considered a challenge to a law restricting high-capacity magazines around the country under the Second Amendment and article I, section 24 of the Washington Constitution has either rejected that challenge, or been overruled," said Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson, noting that two federal district courts have ruled against such laws, and both were stayed by higher courts.

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In 1987, Kaufman joined longtime Dechert partner Sheila Birnbaum in a City Bar effort to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee in opposition to the confirmation of Robert Bork to the U.S. Supreme Court.

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"While our support for Free Speech is unwavering, we cannot condone using a social occasion at a person's private residence as a platform for protest," UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ wrote in a statement.

Noel Francisco, a former U.S. solicitor general, and partner-in-charge at Jones Day's Washington, D.C. office is set to argue on behalf of the coalition, while New York Assistant Solicitor General Laura Etlinger will argue for the New York State Department of Financial Services' 2017 regulation.

The dispute over advance notice bylaws has triggered similar lawsuits from other corporations.

Prosecutors agreed to delay trial until July or August, but are holding fast to their position that the co-defendants' matters not be severed.

Just 15 months into Alyssa Harvey Dawson's tenure as legal chief of HubSpot, Reuters is reporting that Alphabet is considering making an offer for the fast-growing competitor to Salesforce.

Compelling production of information on how the ex-wife allegedly obtained an abortion-inducing medication would violate her civil rights under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, the Fourteenth Court of Appeals held.