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Do Judges and GCs Really Have a Better Chance at Outliving Their Peers?
It has been known for more than a century that lawyers who ascend to the highest levels of the profession tend to be blessed with longer lives than those who don't reach the same heights.
Kirkland Scores Again for Bard in $1.9 Billion Patent Fight
The firm cemented a hard-fought patent victory for client C. R. Bard on Tuesday, fending off the latest appeal in a case that's already cost rival medical device maker W.L. Gore $1.25 billion—and could cost it nearly $800 million more over the next five years.
Financial Litigation Hiring Heats Up, Plus More Lateral Moves
Paul Hastings, Hughes Hubbard & Reed, Debevoise & Plimpton and Boies, Schiller & Flexner make high-profile litigation hires; an Akin project finance head goes in-house; Kelley Drye & Warren adds a Bingham McCutchen refugee but loses its private equity chair; and other notable hires from throughout The Am Law 200.
Two Commercial Division Judges Rule Against Class Action Accords
A Manhattan Commercial Division judge has rejected a non-monetary settlement of a class action brought against a $2.7 billion acquisition in the building materials industry because the objecting plaintiffs are in the business of “trying to make money from litigation.”
Discovery of Atlantic City Internal Affairs Reports Upheld
A federal judge in Camden, N.J., has ruled that Atlantic City, N.J., must allow a plaintiff in a police excessive force suit to review internal affairs records.
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Pennsylvania Causes of Action, 12th Edition
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Records of Police Shooting of Black Driver Must Be Made Public
Police records related to the shooting of a black man who was killed by officers after he allegedly tried to ram them with an SUV, must be released to the public immediately and without redaction, a New Jersey state trial judge ruled Jan. 13, citing the heightened need for public access to information in the wake of the killings of African-American males by police in Ferguson, Mo., and Staten Island, N.Y.
Obama Proposes a National Standard for Data Breaches
The proposal would replace the states' patchwork regulatory quilt with a comprehensive nationwide scheme.
Contractor To Pay $5 Million to Settle Claim Stemming From Fatal Fire
A contractor blamed for starting a fire at a Connecticut home that killed three girls and two of their grandparents on Christmas morning in 2011 has agreed to settle a lawsuit by paying the children's father $5 million.
A Win at the Supreme Court for Consumers in Home Mortgage Case
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously in favor of consumers Tuesday, interpreting a federal law to allow homeowners up to three years to give notice to their banks that they want to rescind their mortgage loans.
Panel Affirms Denial of Foreclosure Claim
A real estate borrower's claim that a deed favoring the lender could not be a conveyance of the property unless normal foreclosure proceedings are followed has been unanimously affirmed by a Manhattan appeals court.Trending Stories
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