The American Lawyer | Analysis
By Lizzy McLellan | June 14, 2018
Several elite litigation boutiques are keeping pace with salary increases at Milbank and Cravath. One hints it's about to go even higher.
By Erin Mulvaney | June 8, 2018
"The EEOC's theory was not that fruitless. Precedent may not have favored it, but the fee statute does not punish a civil rights litigant for pursuing a novel, even if ambitious, theory," Seventh Circuit Chief Justice Diane Wood wrote Friday. Jones Day's Eric Dreiband was chief counsel for CVS in the litigation.
By Charles Toutant | June 8, 2018
The Appellate Division ordered Debra Taylor's cash investment in her client's real estate venture terminated due to her failure to meet disclosure and documentation requirements in the Rules of Professional Conduct when she signed on as an investor.
By Amanda Bronstad | June 7, 2018
The executive director over an Arkansas pension fund has retained outside counsel but insisted he could continue to serve as lead plaintiff in settlements…
By Christine Simmons | June 4, 2018
The pay increase could result in differentiation among law firms, observers say.
Daily Report Online | Commentary
By Shari L. Klevens and Alanna Clair | June 4, 2018
Given the special nature of the attorney-client relationship and the duties involved in such a relationship, attorneys cannot represent just any client who wants to hire them.
By Amanda Bronstad | June 1, 2018
An appeals court has upheld an injunction freezing the assets of Stanley Chesley—once known as the "master of disaster" for his work in mass tort litigation—after concluding that the disbarred Cincinnati plaintiffs attorney is likely to continue what it called a “high-stakes shell game.”
By Amanda Bronstad | May 31, 2018
A Boston federal judge has ordered the head of a pension fund to explain why the fund should still continue to be lead plaintiff, in light of suggestions that it didn't catch millions of dollars in overcharges by lawyers leading the class action.
By Ellis Kim | May 30, 2018
The creation of this fund comes as friends and relatives of other individuals wrapped up in the Mueller probe solicit donations to defray legal costs.
By Amanda Bronstad | May 29, 2018
U.S. District Judge Mark Wolf in Boston said he would address concerns by three plaintiffs firms currently serving as class counsel to State Street customers about the deadline to propose redactions to the report, which the special master filed under seal on May 14.
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