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Revisiting Employment Claims and Policies
In their Cooperatives and Condominiums column, Richard Siegler and Eva Talel of Stroock & Stroock & Lavan discuss pro-employee decisions in hostile work environment discrimination cases and make recommendations to boards and managers as to how to protect their buildings and themselves from such claims, as well as how to have such claims determined in a non-public and binding arbitration forum and to mitigate damages should claims be asserted.With Chill in the Air, a Fresh Law Firm Lawsuit-Palooza
Our latest roundup of litigation in which Am Law 200 firms are either defendants or plaintiffs includes Dorsey & Whitney getting sued over a burst pipe; the ex-wife of a deceased Kaye Scholer partner seeking retirement benefits from the firm; and Thompson Hine facing accusations of discrimination and wrongful termination brought by a legal secretary once employed by the firm.Pro Bono Academy Offers Advice to Small Businesses
An event at the Apollo Theater in Harlem on Tuesday brought together volunteer lawyers from 31 firms and entrepreneurs and heads of small nonprofits, many of whom had never gotten counsel on their businesses from an attorney before, let alone one from a big corporate law firm.Can U.S. Lawyers Make Iran Pay for 1983 Bombing?
Attorneys for the families of Marines killed in Lebanon won a $2.65 billion default judgment against Iran in 2007. But collecting the money has been an uphill battle.Claiming Loss of Equity, Developers Sue Stroock
A development company and its two founders have filed an $80 million malpractice suit against Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, claiming the law firm assigned an "inexperienced associate" to represent them in the development of a Tribeca condo, causing them to lose equity in the project.CVR Energy Sues Wachtell Over Role in Icahn Spat
In a suit filed Thursday in federal court in Kansas City, Kan., CVR Energy accuses Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz and corporate partners Andrew Brownstein and Benjamin Roth of malpractice in representing the oil refining company in its unsuccessful effort to fend off a hostile takeover by activist investor Carl Icahn. The suit states that Wachtell received $6 million for its work advising CVR.The Churn: Lateral Moves in The Am Law 200
Loeb & Loeb gains an advertising specialist; Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton hires a new pro bono partner; and a longtime Treasury Department lawyer joins Stroock & Stroock & Lavan.The Churn is constant. Please send all announcements to [email protected].Trending Stories
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