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Toyota settles suit with shareholders

Toyota Motor Corp. has agreed to pay $25.5 million to settle a suit brought by its shareholders accusing the company of failing to disclose safety and quality issues with some of its vehicles.
3 minute read

Inside Counsel

CME Group faces criticism over Dodd-Frank lawsuit

CME Group Inc., the worlds largest futures and derivatives market, has come under fire for its recent lawsuit against the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which it filed in an effort to block the implementation of certain Dodd-Frank reporting requirements.
5 minute read

Inside Counsel

Faulkner’s estate sues Sony Pictures Classics over quote

"The past is never dead. It's not even past." Well, thats not quite how Owen Wilson quoted the famous William Faulkner line in Midnight in Paris, but Faulkner Literary Rightsthe famous authors estatesay its close enough.
2 minute read

Inside Counsel

Judge dismisses suits against John Marshall, Kent

The scoreboard isnt looking so good for law school graduates who are waging war against their alma maters.
6 minute read

Inside Counsel

E-discovery: Resolving issues through a collaborative approach

Every so often, a court case makes you look at a particular issue in a new way.
7 minute read

Inside Counsel

Pfizer will pay $67.5 million to settle investor lawsuit over Pristiq

Pfizer Inc. is opening its coffers yet again, this time to settle a class-action suit involving former Wyeth Inc. shareholders who claim the pharmaceutical company misinformed them about the side effects of its antidepressant, Pristiq.
2 minute read

Inside Counsel

$7.2 billion Visa/MasterCard credit card fee settlement gets preliminary approval

Despite heavy opposition from powerhouse retailers like Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Target, the $7.2 billion settlement between Visa Inc., MasterCard Inc. and several banks on one side, and a class of merchants on the other, has received preliminary approval.
5 minute read

Inside Counsel

States launch investigation into sales of Boston Scientific surgical mesh

As product liability lawsuits mount, several states are launching investigations into the sales of Boston Scientific Inc.s transvaginal mesh products.
2 minute read

International Edition

Bar Council chair calls for LSB to be disbanded

Bar Council chairman Michael Todd QC has called for the Legal Services Board (LSB) to be "disbanded", citing support from Attorney General Dominic Grieve and new Justice Secretary Chris Grayling. Speaking at the annual Bar Council conference on Saturday (10 November), Todd said that the LSB was going "beyond its brief" as a regulator and trying to "shape the legal landscape".
2 minute read

Inside Counsel

5 unusual natural disaster lawsuits

We take a look at some of the more bizarre litigation that has arisen from natural disasters in the past
11 minute read

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