By Amanda Bronstad | May 7, 2018
A federal judge overseeing the multidistrict litigation over the opioid epidemic has ordered lawyers to disclose all third-party financing arrangements in their cases.
By Roy Strom | May 7, 2018
After selling their litigation funding business to Burford Capital Ltd., the founders of Gerchen Keller Capital launched their own plaintiffs firm earlier this year. Now that new firm is taking aim at its first defendants.
Connecticut Law Tribune | News
By Robert Storace | May 7, 2018
A decision on whether to retry Kennedy nephew Michael Skakel in the murder of his 15-year-old neighbor in 1975 is now in the state's hands, after the high court vacated Skakel's murder conviction late May 4.
By Dr. Dariush Adl | May 7, 2018
A hotly disputed legal issue between the majority and dissent in the recent, highly publicized, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit “Blurred Lines” decision in Williams v. Gaye, No. 15-56880, concerned whether Marvin Gaye's 1976 hit song “Got to Give it Up” was entitled to “broad” or “thin” copyright protection.
By Susan DeSantis | May 7, 2018
Lawrence Randolph Bailey Jr., the first African-American attorney to become an equity partner at Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, died May 2 in Westchester at the age of 68.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Rebecca Rosenberger Smolen and Amy Neifeld Shkedy | May 7, 2018
A parallel topic for business owners, that we did not address in that article head on, is the myriad ways in which businesses are transitioned once the sole owner of the business exits, whether by accident (i.e., death or disability) or by design.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Stephen A. Miller and Isaac A. Binkovitz | May 7, 2018
In the United States, antitrust law strives to eliminate price-fixing affecting the U.S. market. That price-fixing activity sometimes occurs outside the United States, and some defendants ensnared in antitrust inquiries have invoked a plausible defense that can be summarized as: A foreign government made me do it!
By Amanda Bronstad | May 4, 2018
The pitches for lead plaintiffs counsel pit Steve Berman and a few lawyers at Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro against a 40-lawyer coalition led by Joseph Cotchett, of Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, and Laurence King of Kaplan Fox & Kilsheimer.
By Joseph Evans | May 4, 2018
Pinsent Masons is advising the BBC, as the publicly financed broadcaster and another news organization reached a settlement with Appleby in a dispute over a leak of confidential materials labeled the "Paradise Papers" last year.
By Katheryn Tucker | May 4, 2018
Here's how a settlement came about in the "ground zero" lawsuit that launched a national conversation about sexual abuse of children in training for Olympic sports.
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