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The Legal Intelligencer

$1M Award Upheld in Dad's RICO Case Against Daughter, Son-in-Law

A federal judge has upheld a $1 million verdict in a civil Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act case filed by a man who claimed his daughter and son-in-law sabotaged his business by embezzling company funds and diverting them to their own company.
6 minute read

Delaware Business Court Insider

Martha Stewart Extinguishes Investor Lawsuit Over Company's $353M Sale

The Delaware Court of Chancery has dismissed a shareholder challenge to the 2015 sale of Martha Stewart's merchandising company to Sequential Brands Group Inc., ruling that the $353 million deal included protective measures that kept it within the protection of the business judgment rule and shielded it from heightened scrutiny.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Cosby Gets New Legal Team Led by Michael Jackson's Lawyer

Bill Cosby has a new lawyer, and he's no rookie to the world of high-profile celebrity criminal trials. Cosby's new lawyers are Tom Mesereau, Kathleen Bliss, and local counsel Sam Silver, spokesman Andrew Wyatt announced Monday. Mesereau, of Los Angeles, is best known for representing Michael Jackson in a 2005 trial over alleged child molestation. Jackson was acquitted of the charges.
9 minute read

Daily Report Online

Taylor Swift's Lawyer Tells All

Forgive the tabloid headline. Venable partner J. Douglas Baldridge is actually quite discreet when discussing his famous client. But he spent last week litigating under a blinding media spotlight, with everyone from People Magazine and Inside Edition to The New York Times covering Taylor Swift's six-day federal trial in Denver.
6 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Cowboys Star's Appeal Won't Be Arbitrator Henderson's First Rodeo

Harold Henderson, who has been tapped to preside when Dallas Cowboys star Ezekiel Elliott's appeal of his six-day suspension is heard on Aug. 29, has become NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell's go-to guy for arbitrations.
9 minute read

New York Law Journal

As New Season Approaches, NFL, Media Dealmakers Building Up a Head of Stream

Steven Smith, managing partner of Bryan Cave's Colorado Springs office, talks about the streaming boom currently collapsing the NFL-media pocket.
26 minute read

The Recorder

NFL's Cold Shoulder to Kaepernick May Leave League Out in the Cold, Legally

Against a backdrop of political polarization the case of Colin Kaepernick, the ex-San Francisco 49ers quarterback who is unsigned by any NFL team, and who sat out the pregame national anthem in protest, may be a test, or a black eye, for the NFL.
7 minute read

Litigation Daily

Litigator of the Week: Taylor Swift's Lawyer Tells All

Forgive the tabloid headline. Venable partner J. Douglas Baldridge is actually quite discreet when discussing his famous client. But he spent last week litigating under a blinding media spotlight, with everyone from People Magazine and Inside Edition to The New York Times covering Taylor Swift's six-day federal trial in Denver.
14 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Dancer's Statutory Claim Against Club Not Subject to Arbitration

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has reinstated a suit claiming that exotic dancers at a men's club have been wrongly classified as independent contractors.
8 minute read

Delaware Law Weekly

Woman Sues Over Injuries From 'Punkin Chunkin' Incident

A woman who was severely injured last year during a pumpkin-launching competition sued the event's organizers, participants, state officials and Discovery Communications Inc. for negligence Monday.
3 minute read

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