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HSF hires leading QC Tom Leech to join advocacy group in London

Herbert Smith Freehills has turned to the Bar for its latest partner recruit, hiring Tom Leech QC from Maitland Chambers to join its London advocacy group.
2 minute read

Inside Counsel

Cantor Fitzgerald gambling arm to pay $2 million to settle regulator complaint

Regulators believe that Cantor Gaming, or chief executive Lee Amaitis, should have known that former executive Michael Colbert was placing illegal bets.
2 minute read

Inside Counsel

Bank of America sued by former trader for bonus payout

Tadjudin is suing in a Hong Kong High Court for $3.7 million. That figure is based on the average trader payout of 16.6 percent she received from 2002-2004
6 minute read

Inside Counsel

Seyfarth Shaw releases annual workplace class action lawsuit report

Seyfarth Shaw LLPs 10th annual Workplace Class Action Litigation Report reveals new challenges ahead for employers facing workplace class action litigation.
3 minute read

Inside Counsel

Wage-and-hour lawsuit wave to continue into 2014

A report titled the Workplace Class Action Litigation Report created for the tenth year in a row by Seyfarth Shaw L.L.P. cites the increased use of mobile devices as perhaps a bane for employers caught in labor litigation.
10 minute read

Inside Counsel

Litigation: 6 defenses every inside counsel should know (Part 6)

Claims for punitive damages can be aggressively defended using the statutory limitations now available in most states.
10 minute read

Inside Counsel

Litigation: Lessons learned from the Dell saga in going-private transactions

Michael Dell's going-private transaction serves as an example of how corporations and their boards of directors can navigate the murky waters of related party transactions.
5 minute read

Inside Counsel

DOJ is aggressively pursuing cartel enforcement

The U.S. Department of Justice continues to focus on criminal prosecution of companies and individuals engaged in cartel, price-fixing or bid-rigging behavior.
5 minute read

International Edition

6 January 2014 – the day the Bar came together to fight for justice

On Monday 6 January the criminal Bar staged a mass walk-out. Up and down the country barristers, solicitors and members of the public campaigned outside Magistrates' Courts and Crown Courts against the proposed legal aid cuts. Cuts that will cripple the system. Cuts that will mean many innocent people will go unrepresented, or worse still will be represented by inexperienced, poorly prepared advocates. Cuts that will mean many lawyers are forced into other jobs in order to pay the bills.
8 minute read

Inside Counsel

Patent trolls go after bigger targets

Now, MPHJ has moved into a new phase, moving past demand letters and actually filing lawsuits. The biggest target on MPHJs radar, though, is soft drink giant Coca-Cola.
4 minute read

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