Mark Hamblett

December 16, 2016 | New York Law Journal

New evidence has led a federal judge to reconsider sanctions she imposed against a current partner and a former attorney with DLA Piper for violating a court order not to interfere with the interview of witnesses in prescription drug litigation in New York.

By Mark Hamblett

9 minute read

December 15, 2016 | New York Law Journal

An attorney's failure to secure cellphone records has led a federal judge to order a new trial for a career criminal convicted of attempted murder.

By Mark Hamblett

6 minute read

December 15, 2016 | New York Law Journal

Former Rikers Island guard Brian Coll was found guilty Thursday in the beating and kicking death of 52-year-old pretrial detainee Ronald Spear.

By Mark Hamblett

3 minute read

December 14, 2016 | New York Law Journal

Ashley Madison, the online dating service built to help cheating lovers meet their match, will settle claims that lax cybersecurity was responsible for a data breach that exposed the personal information of millions of customers last year.

By C. Ryan Barber and Mark Hamblett

11 minute read

December 14, 2016 | National Law Journal

AshleyMadison.com, a website built to help cheating lovers meet their match, has agreed to settle claims that lax cybersecurity was responsible for a data breach that exposed the personal information of millions of customers last year.

By C. Ryan Barber and Mark Hamblett

12 minute read

December 12, 2016 | New York Law Journal

By Mark Hamblett

18 minute read

December 09, 2016 | New York Law Journal

Attorney Steven Donziger's attempt to upset a settlement between Chevron and the former Patton Boggs law firm in the multi-billion dollar brawl over an Ecuadorean environment award has been decisively rejected by a federal judge.

By Mark Hamblett

19 minute read

December 08, 2016 | New York Law Journal

A pension fund that made millions from Bernie Madoff before he was exposed tried to claim that it could have earned even more if its trustees had shared their suspicions about the Ponzi schemer. But the Second Circuit decisively rejected that claim.

By Mark Hamblett

8 minute read

December 07, 2016 | New York Law Journal

A federal appeals court has upheld an order requiring an attorney to pay more than $200,000 for issuing false opinion letters supporting impermissible public offerings of penny stocks.

By Mark Hamblett

3 minute read

December 07, 2016 | New York Law Journal

Dozens of law professors have joined the fight over whether Uber Technologies Inc. can force consumers into arbitration on allegations that the company engages in algorithm-based price fixing.

By Mark Hamblett

18 minute read