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New York Law Journal

Retaliation Claim Moves Forward for EmblemHealth Employee Axed After Internal Discrimination Complaint

According to a complaint filed by the former nurse supervisor, he had been unfairly labeled as “aggressive” and “authoritarian,” amounting to a “hackneyed stereotype” of him being an “angry black man.”
3 minute read

The American Lawyer

Sidley Looks to Pull Investment Advisers Into Fraud Suit

Sidley Austin says a group of investment advisers should also be punished if the firm ultimately loses an investor class action that has accused it of helping Aequitas Securities perpetrate fraud.
4 minute read

Litigation Daily

Sidley Moves to Pull Investment Advisers Into Fraud Suit

Sidley Austin says a group of investment advisers should also be punished if the firm ultimately loses an investor class action that has accused it of helping Aequitas Securities perpetrate fraud.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

NY-Based Litigation Funder Parabellum Bets on Big Data to Vet Patent Claims

Parabellum Capital is paying to keep a patent analysis tool developed by a former Fish & Richardson lawyer away from its competitors.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Mootness Fees in Disclosure-Focused Deal Litigation

In their Corporate Litigation column, Joseph M. McLaughlin and Shannon K. McGovern write: “Mootness fees” to plaintiffs' counsel after a voluntary dismissal have become a standard feature of deal litigation resolved before a stockholder motion to enjoin a transaction based on alleged proxy disclosure deficiencies is decided. The authors explain the important differences between disclosure-only settlements and mootness fees when resolving such litigation and discuss a recent relevant decision currently on appeal to the Seventh Circuit.
9 minute read

New York Law Journal

BR-Code Support and EUO/IME No-Show Defense

In his No-Fault Insurance Law Wrap-Up, David M. Barshay discusses cases weighing-in on an insurer's burden to request additional verification to support by-report codes, and a recent Fourth Department ruling requiring timely denial for EUO/IME no-show defense.
10 minute read

New York Law Journal

The Rule of Reason as a Bar to Criminal Antitrust Enforcement

The U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division's case against Kemp Associates, an heir location service firm, has focused attention on the growing role of the rule of reason in the defense of criminal antitrust prosecutions.
16 minute read

Legaltech News

Litigation Funder Bets on Big Data to Vet Patent Claims with Exclusive License

Parabellum Capital is paying to keep a patent analysis tool developed by a former Fish & Richardson lawyer away from its competitors.
3 minute read

The American Lawyer

Litigation Funder Parabellum Bets on Big Data to Vet Patent Claims

Parabellum Capital is paying to keep a patent analysis tool developed by a former Fish & Richardson lawyer away from its competitors.
3 minute read

Texas Lawyer

The Confessional Collides with the Courts in 'Higher Law'

This week's episode of “Bull”—“A Higher Law”—featured an unusual suspect: a Catholic priest. He's pulled over behind the wheel of a…
6 minute read

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