By The Legal Intelligencer | January 25, 2018
The Legal Intelligencer is accepting nominations in 10 categories this year, including four new categories geared exclusively toward firms with fewer than 200 lawyers.
By Samantha Joseph | January 25, 2018
"Although the buyers' misconduct was reprehensible ... this court lacks a mechanism to punish the miscreant defendants," Fourth District Court of Appeal Judge Alan Forst wrote.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Edward T. Kang | January 25, 2018
Who in civil litigation does not love a good RICO claim? Its boundaries are seemingly endless, and in the case of Harvey Weinstein—perhaps one of the most vilified defendants on the planet right now—there is the possibility of catastrophic implications, as if being the face of an entire movement (#MeToo) is not bad enough.
Daily Business Review | Commentary
By Gabrielle Mercadante | January 25, 2018
Florida courts have been veering away from the bright-line rule that the offer of judgment/proposal for settlement (PFS) statute, Fla. Stats. Section 769.79(1), does not apply in cases involving equitable relief.
By Amanda Bronstad | January 24, 2018
The court's parsing of a lower court's “choice-of-law” analysis in a multistate class action settlement could cause hurdles for future nationwide classes.
By Erin Mulvaney | January 24, 2018
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in the consolidated cases at the start of the term in October, just before the #MeToo movement would take off nationally.
By Monika Mesa | January 24, 2018
The Moskowitz Law Firm began operating in early January and expects to expand quickly.
By Amanda Bronstad | January 23, 2018
Plaintiffs lawyers are fighting accusations by an objector that their $38 million fee request in the Anthem data breach settlement was “outrageous on its face” and required a special master to investigate potential over-billing.
By Charles Toutant | January 23, 2018
A federal judge in Newark, New Jersey, has denied class certification in multidistrict litigation claiming that Tropicana orange juice was falsely promoted as all-natural.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Richard J. Schager Jr. | January 23, 2018
Richard J. Schager Jr. writes: In a 4-3 decision last month, a divided New York Court of Appeals held that where an action brought as a class action is voluntarily dismissed, CPLR 908 requires both (1) judicial approval and (2) notice to the putative class, even where the class has not been certified, and even if no class certification motion has been made.
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