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Daily Business Review

Podhurst Orseck, Client and Ex-Partner Face Nearly $575K in Attorney Fees

"This appears to be one of those cases where it is probably best to find a resolution as the fees and expenses will just continue to mount," said Ed Mullins, a partner at Reed Smith who is an attorney fees expert not involved in the matter.
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Daily Business Review

Judge Rules Against Insurer in $127M Suit Over Aircraft 'Theft'

"From public reporting, we understand that the total amounts of these claims are in excess of $10 billion," said one of the attorneys involved in a separate but similar lawsuit.
4 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

NJ's Top Personal Injury Awards Total Nearly $654M

The awards this year totaled about $654 million, which is much higher than last year's total of $169.3 million, and which makes the average award this year $32.7 million.
59 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Nothing to Hide: How to Make and Evaluate Disclosures in ADR

Although the roles of arbitrators and mediators are different, neutrals in either capacity need to make fulsome disclosures so their impartiality can be adequately assessed.
9 minute read

Daily Report Online

'Trapped in the Floor': $5.25M Settlement Reached Years After Tenant's Death

"Perhaps it is not tort reform that we need but insurance reform," said plaintiff counsel Cash Krugler Fredericks partners Alwyn Fredericks. "Insurance companies should fairly assess and resolve cases on the front end as opposed to crying foul when a jury hammers them for not doing their jobs."
10 minute read

The Recorder

Who Got the Work: Willkie Farr and Gibson Dunn Enter Appearances for Big Tech in Pending Privacy Class Action

Plaintiffs say a wellness company breached California's wiretapping and eavesdropping laws by feeding consumers' confidential information to Big Tech "third-party" defendants through its websites.
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Judge Whittles Down Artists' Landmark AI Copyright Suit but Keeps Core Infringement Claims Alive

Judge William Orrick found that the cartoonists, painters and illustrators who filed the case have plausibly shown their works were used in AI training, which he said was sufficient to allow the case testing whether the fair use doctrine applies to AI-powered image generation tools to move forward.
5 minute read

Litigation Daily

Some Perspectives on Jurors From 3 Judges

Two U.S. District Senior Judges—Marcia Krieger in Denver and Senior Judge Robert Lasnik in Seattle—and Maricopa County, Arizona Superior Court Judge Pamela Gates shared their thoughts on the collective wisdom of jurors during a program sponsored by the Berkeley Judicial Institute earlier this month.
4 minute read

National Law Journal

Budding Circuit Consensus: SPAC Investors Can't Sue Over Acquired Company's Pre-Merger Misstatements

"At the time of [Lucid's] alleged misrepresentations, CCIV and Lucid were two entirely separate companies," the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held. "Lucid's alleged misrepresentations made about itself cannot be imputed to another company that later acquired it."
4 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Appellate Division Strikes Down Government Records Council's Regulation During Pending Denial-of-Access Complaint

"In its ruling today, the Appellate Division has shown us that the judicial branch continues to uphold government transparency, even if the legislative and executive branches do not," said John Paff, executive director of Libertarians for Transparent Government.
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