David Bario

October 28, 2014 | Litigation Daily

Who better to turn a crisis into an opportunity than investors—and the securities class action plaintiffs bar?

By David Bario

2 minute read

October 28, 2014 | Law.com

Eight months after Hagens Berman got a second chance to press claims that top Internet booking sites and the country's biggest hotel chains conspired to fix room prices, on Tuesday a federal judge in Dallas dismissed the case for good.

By David Bario

3 minute read

October 24, 2014 | Litigation Daily

Everyone's waiting for a federal appeals court to decide if unpaid interns can band together to sue former employers for back wages. But for two contestants in the intern wars, the suspense was apparently too much to bear.

By David Bario

2 minute read

October 23, 2014 | Litigation Daily

On Texas turf, the New York litigator marshaled his resources to score a massive verdict against Trinity Industries that could affect the safety of drivers around the nation, and possibly beyond.

By David Bario

4 minute read

October 22, 2014 | Litigation Daily

A trio of federal judges—and eventually the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit—will have to grapple with the SEC's power to target Wall Street defendants on the agency's own turf.

By David Bario

3 minute read

October 21, 2014 | Law.com

After a brief hiatus—and some promising developments for patent defendants—the patent plaintiff Phoenix Licensing LLC fired off a new round of infringement lawsuits in East Texas federal court, targeting 15 companies ranging from Charter Communications to Honda to T-Mobile.

By David Bario

2 minute read

October 20, 2014 | Law.com

The lawsuit, filed by lawyers at Kellogg Huber, alleges that leading partners at DLA Piper, Milberg and other firms knew or should have known that Paul Ceglia forged the contract at the heart of his highly publicized ownership case against Facebook.

By David Bario

4 minute read

October 16, 2014 | Litigation Daily

Before Friedlander and Baron took control of the Delaware shareholder litigation over Warburg Pincus' acquisition of Rural/Metro Corp., the case was ready to fizzle. Instead, the duo uncovered a web of conflicts and deception that led up to a $75.8 million ruling against Royal Bank of Canada.

By David Bario

4 minute read

October 15, 2014 | Litigation Daily

Rosemary Martoma was never implicated in her husband Mathew's insider trading scheme, which entailed using confidential drug trial information to help SAC make a windfall $275 million profit. Now her lawyers at Goodwin Procter say she shouldn't have to pay for his crimes.

By David Bario

2 minute read

October 15, 2014 | Litigation Daily

Fresh on the heels of a new settlement, a judge on Wednesday recommended certifying a direct purchaser class in the massive air cargo antitrust MDL. But an attempt to disqualify one of the lead plaintiffs firms threatens to block it from seeing the case through to the end.

By David Bario

4 minute read