David Bario

January 08, 2015 | Law.com

In the latest appellate victory for Theodore Frank of the Center for Class Action Fairness, a panel overturned a judge's decision to award funds left over from a $490 million securities class action to a Missouri legal charity.

By David Bario

3 minute read

January 08, 2015 | Litigation Daily

In the latest appellate victory for Theodore Frank of the Center for Class Action Fairness, a panel overturned a judge's decision to award funds left over from a $490 million securities class action to a Missouri legal charity.

By David Bario

3 minute read

January 01, 2015 | Corporate Counsel

A lawyer is reprimanded for flaunting his friendship with an influential judge.

By David Bario

3 minute read

December 23, 2014 | Law.com

A federal appeals court set its sights on North Korea on Tuesday, finding sufficient evidence of abductions, torture and murder by the hermit kingdom to warrant a default judgment for the family of one of its victims.

By David Bario

3 minute read

December 18, 2014 | Litigation Daily

Unilever, the maker of Hellmann's Real Mayonnaise, abruptly dismissed its own false advertising suit against eggless mayonnaise upstart Just Mayo.

By David Bario

2 minute read

December 18, 2014 | Litigation Daily

Plaintiffs lawyers kept a billion-dollar antitrust class action against Apple smoldering for a whole decade, until Isaacson and Dunn stepped in to douse the flames.

By David Bario

4 minute read

December 17, 2014 | Litigation Daily

Days after David Boies threatened major media organizations over hacked Sony emails, his firm has picked another fight with a respected news outlet, accusing Forbes of publishing "a hit piece of the worst sort" about an aide to former Mexican President Felipe Calderón.

By David Bario

3 minute read

December 15, 2014 | Litigation Daily

Monday's petition—should the Supreme Court grant it—raises the prospect of a high court showdown between former U.S. solicitor general Paul Clement and David Boies of Boies, Schiller & Flexner over Barclays' firesale acquisition of Lehman Brothers' brokerage business.

By David Bario

3 minute read

December 11, 2014 | Litigation Daily

Shearman & Sterling's Fishbein, who argued the successful insider trading appeal in U.S. v. Newman alongside Mark Pomerantz of Paul Weiss, says it's wrong to think that the Second Circuit made insider trading too tough to prove. But, he says, "it's going to be harder to prove when the defendants are innocent."

By David Bario

5 minute read

December 10, 2014 | Litigation Daily

Cutting short a dispute over how to sort out damages for roughly 300 plaintiffs in the wake of a landmark terrorism financing verdict, a Brooklyn judge ordered a bellwether trial to begin in May 2015.

By David Bario

2 minute read