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Not Toying Around: Hasbro CLO's 'Exceptional' Performance Pays Big

Tarrant Sibley, who climbed the legal department's leadership ladder for nearly two decades before becoming legal chief in 2019, last year helped Hasbro resolve litigation and close the books on a failed acquisition.
3 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Lawyers Want Court Guidance on an 'Uncomfortable Question'

The Alabama Supreme Court's decision that frozen embryos are children raises concerns nationwide about the future of in-vitro fertilization, and how the conservative push for fetal personhood will affect these disputed storage agreements.
6 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Parties Clash Over Jury Instruction in Hearing on $976M Defective Seatbelt Verdict

"They wanted this trial," Becker said. "Now they come to you crying for the unfairness of it all."
3 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

LG's 'Pro: Centric Catena' at Heart of Recently Filed Trade Secrets, Nondisclosure Lawsuit

This case was first surfaced by Law.com Radar, ALM's source for immediate alerting on just-filed cases in state and federal courts. Law.com Radar now offers state court coverage nationwide.
3 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Pietragallo Litigator Joins Boston's Lichten & Liss-Riordan, Launching South Jersey Office

Jeremy Abay worked with founder Shannon Liss-Riordan on the first case to make it to a federal jury on whether Uber drivers should be classified as employees or independent contractors.
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

GC Set to Retire After Teaming With Other Marriott Alums to Build $2B Lodging Powerhouse

Sixty-nine-year-old Bill Tennis, who's been GC of DiamondRock Hospitality for 14 of the company's 24 years in business, plans to retire in June.
3 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Suisman Shapiro Secures $1.15 Million Settlement

"Part of me wishes I could have tried it because I think we would have done very well, and it would have been a really interesting experience to see how the jury reacted to that defense," plaintiffs counsel Isabel Del Vecchio said.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Nearly Half of Philadelphia's Mass Tort Programs Are on Track to Close This Year

"Within the next several months, the court will be closing the Risperdal, Essure and Elmiron mass tort programs, as the lawyers and self-represented parties work through the remaining cases on the docket," Judge Joshua Roberts, head of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Complex Litigation Center, said.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Federal Judge Dismisses Phila. Lawyer's 3rd Bid to Sue Pierce Bainbridge for Attorney Fees

"This allegedly new evidence of fraud undermines the very existence of an enforceable settlement agreement and, in fact, makes any such agreement, if one existed, voidable, not enforceable," Judge Nitza Quiñones Alejandro ruled.
4 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

2 Executives Seek Bill of Discovery in Feud With Bridgewater Associates

Bridgewater argues an arbitration is not a civil action, and a petition for bill of discovery is unavailable as a matter of law. It also filed motions in Connecticut District Court to compel the claims to arbitration.
4 minute read

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