By David Gialanella | November 28, 2017
A federal appeals court offered a clear rule earlier this year in holding that employees must be paid for breaks lasting 20 minutes or less, but private suits on that issue have been few, and appear poised to remain so, practitioners say.
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By Max Mitchell | November 27, 2017
A lead attorney in the NFL concussion settlement has been very critical of numerous third-party litigation funding companies that have loaned money to retired players involved in the class action, but it is his alleged failure to publicly disclose his history with another litigation funding company that has raised some eyebrows recently.
By Michael Booth | November 27, 2017
The grandmother of a New Jersey infant who was permanently disabled as a result of child abuse, and whose $166 million verdict against the state was reversed, is now suing their former attorney and his firm for legal malpractice.
By Susan DeSantis | November 27, 2017
For the second year in a row, graduates of NYU, Columbia and Cornell performed the best on the New York State bar exam with a 97.9 percent success rate for NYU graduates and the other two schools not far behind. But it was St. John's University that saw the most dramatic improvement from 76.5 percent in July 2016 to 89.2 percent in July 2017.
By Christine Simmons | November 27, 2017
It's been a year of high-profile prosecutions and convictions involving partners at prestigious firms. What keeps leading lawyers astray?
By Charles Toutant | November 22, 2017
Claims filed this week against the city and state of New York over the Oct. 31 truck attack on a bike path along the Hudson River are strong enough to survive a motion to dismiss, but whether those entities can be made to pay for injuries caused by a terrorist act is ultimately seen as a jury question, observers said.
By David Gialanella | November 22, 2017
A federal judge has declined to exercise jurisdiction over a contract dispute where messages that went "into the electronic ether" were about the only thing connecting the defendant with New Jersey.
By Andrew Denney | November 22, 2017
In its case against the man accused of the Oct. 31 truck attack in Lower Manhattan that left eight people dead, prosecutors are drawing strong links between the defendant and the so-called Islamic State and bringing charges against him that are more often seen in cases involving domestic criminal enterprises.
By Roy Strom | November 21, 2017
The San Francisco-based Am Law 200 firm will dissolve in early January, although London-based Clyde & Co could emerge as a white knight to absorb the bulk of Sedgwick's operations.
By Charles Toutant | November 21, 2017
The city and state of New York were served with notices of claim on Tuesday over the Oct. 31 truck attack on a bike path along the Hudson River, which killed eight people and injured 12.
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