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Litigation Daily

Daily Dicta: It's Quinn Emanuel v. Williams & Connolly in Minnesota Mega-Trial

The allegations are a variation on a familiar theme: Loosey-goosey mortgages and shoddy underwriting led to mass defaults and foreclosures. What's left is a tangled set of claims with hundreds of millions of dollars on the line.
8 minute read

Litigation Daily

Litigators of the Week: Opening a New Door in Private Antitrust Enforcement

No private merger challenge has gone to before a jury—until now. And no judge in such a private action has ordered a divestiture as a remedy to restore competition—until now.
11 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Disbarred NJ Lawyer's Malpractice Suit Against Former Counsel Rightly Tossed, Court Says

"Defendants did not commit malpractice," the panel said. "Because this is merely a fee dispute, defendants did not breach a fiduciary duty."
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

Pay When Paid, Limits and Limitations

Adam Leitman Bailey and Dov Treiman discuss “Pay-if-Paid” clauses in construction contracts and write: “Like many jurisdictions across the United States, New York outlaws Pay-If-Paid clauses, but, in New York's case, only indirectly.”
12 minute read

The Recorder

Courts Upholds $335K Award Against Manatt in Recruiter Suit

The recent decision by the California Court of Appeal and a decision in a separate case in New York show that courts are continuing to enforce recruiter contracts with firms, even if they are oral or do not include a signature.
7 minute read

Daily Business Review

In Case of Jumping Horse Dud, Judge Backs Nominal Settlement Offers

West Palm Beach attorney Patricia Leonard says a ruling by U.S. District Judge Kenneth Marra sets "the appropriate standard" for nominal offers of judgment.
5 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Plaintiffs Drop SDNY Suit Opposing Rider University's Sale of Choir College

The plaintiffs sought to have the sale declared illegal, claiming it violated the terms of the merger agreement between Rider and Westminster.
3 minute read

The Recorder

In Gender Discrimination Suit, Ogletree and Ex-Partner Clash Over Firm's Arbitration Agreement

Lawyers for a former non-equity shareholder at the national employment law firm claim that she never agreed to arbitrate disputes with the firm. Ogletree's lawyers say that as a "seasoned employment attorney," the plaintiff can't credibly argue that she did not understand the agreement or how to opt out of it.
4 minute read

Litigation Daily

Daily Dicta: Paul Weiss Wins Rare Delaware Decision Allowing Client to Kill $4.8B Merger

Delaware courts don't normally look kindly on companies that try to pull out of billion-dollar merger agreements. But this case was "markedly different."
10 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Justices Will Hear Auto Dealerships' Appeal of Ruling Denying Arbitration

A three-judge Appellate Division panel in April overturned two lower court rulings that said the customers could be compelled to arbitrate their disputes.
3 minute read

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