Ben Hancock

January 17, 2017 | Corporate Counsel

San Francisco Judge Harold Kahn said the company's arbitration clause was both unfair and inconspicuous.

By Ben Hancock

8 minute read

January 13, 2017 | The Recorder

Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein and Saxena White will lead litigation in the Northern District of California stemming from the bank's fake accounts scandal.

By Ben Hancock

15 minute read

January 13, 2017 | The Recorder

The retired federal judge has no qualms about his role as an adviser to Bentham IMF and takes issue with pushback from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

By Ben Hancock

5 minute read

January 12, 2017 | The Recorder

Consumers have standing to sue Apple over App Store pricing, a unanimous Ninth Circuit panel ruled Thursday.

By Ben Hancock

13 minute read

January 12, 2017 | Law.com

Vaughn Walker, the retired chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, made waves last fall when he teamed up with…

By Ben Hancock

2 minute read

January 11, 2017 | The Recorder

The company is petitioning to enforce the ruling, which held for the first time in a U.S. arbitration that Uber does not employ its drivers.

By Ben Hancock

10 minute read

January 11, 2017 | Corporate Counsel

Even if enforcement ebbs in the Trump administration, as some would predict, these five areas are likely to keep antitrust litigators busy.

By Ben Hancock

21 minute read

January 06, 2017 | The Recorder

A retired litigator living in Millennium Tower claims in a new lawsuit that the San Francisco City Attorney's Office knew the tower was sinking as early as 2010.

By Ben Hancock

5 minute read

January 06, 2017 | The Recorder

Two judges, Brian Walsh and Thomas Kuhnle, have replaced Peter Kirwan in the court's complex litigation department as part of routine reassignments.

By Ben Hancock

6 minute read

January 05, 2017 | The Recorder

The California Supreme Court sided with the state bar in a unanimous decision that resolves a lingering dispute over the state's anti-SLAPP statute.

By Ben Hancock

6 minute read