National Law Journal | Investigation|Research
By Amanda Bronstad | May 29, 2018
Some female and minority attorneys have struck out on their own to get appointments, while many firms are diversifying their hiring or pitching new faces to MDL judges, who themselves are evolving into a more diverse corps.
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.
By Susan DeSantis | May 29, 2018
The New York Law Journal asked Matt Funk, president of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association and is a senior partner at Pasternack Tilker Ziegler Walsh Stanton & Romano, to share his opinions on the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision on employment contracts and new laws on sexual harassment and scaffold protection.
By Tony Mauro | May 28, 2018
The former George W. Bush-era solicitor general prides himself and his appellate team at Kirkland & Ellis on being able to climb aboard fast-moving Supreme Court cases at the last minute.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Jeffrey Campolongo and Alisha L. McCarthy | May 25, 2018
It has been perhaps a disorienting couple of weeks for those keeping track of where, and how, employers can be sued by their employees. Take, for example, the May 10 step toward transparency in the #MeToo era by Uber Technologies, Inc. (Uber), which announced that it will not push for individual sexual harassment and assault claims to be determined through private arbitration proceedings going forward.
By Marcia Coyle | May 25, 2018
There may be another way: "non-mutual offensive collateral estoppel." The concept is fairly established in the law, but it has not been used much. And judges and arbitrators have broad discretion whether to apply it in any given case.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Max Mitchell | May 24, 2018
Most of the attorney fees a federal judge has allocated to the lawyers who hammered out the NFL concussion settlement are set to go to one firm: New York-based Seeger Weiss.
By Miriam Rozen | May 24, 2018
There are a number of reasons for lawyers representing plaintiffs and defendants to believe that Dutch courts could become an ideal overseas venue to resolve class action disputes. But uncertainties still abound.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Max Mitchell | May 23, 2018
U.S. District Judge Anita Brody of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on Tuesday ruled that Thrivest Specialty Funding was enjoined from arbitrating the validity and terms of the agreement it entered into with former Atlanta Falcons player William White.
By Amanda Bronstad | May 23, 2018
The U.S. Supreme Court's 5-4 decision upholding class action waivers included in arbitration clauses of employment contracts has sent shockwaves through the class action bar.
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