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Aug 04 2011
A lawsuit brought against McDermott Will & Emery by a former client has claimed that the contract attorneys employed by the firm to review documents ‘negligently...
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Nov 10 2010
An African-American legal secretary laid off by Jones Day after nearly 18 years on the job claims in a lawsuit that the firm laid off support staffers in June as part...
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Jun 17 2010
The first bar exam, to be held in December of this year is already facing its first litigation. Six law graduates from the state of Gujarat have filed a petition in...
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Jun 15 2010
Asbestos is the only known cause of mesothelioma. In almost all cases, someone diagnosed with mesothelioma has the right to file a mesothelioma lawsuit to recover...
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Feb 17 2010
In Airgas v. Cravath Swaine & Moore, Airgas is seeking to stop Cravath Swaine & Moore from representing Air Products, alleging that there was a conflict of interest...
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Feb 16 2010
Attorneys presiding over the liquidation of Scott Rothstein’s bankrupt law firm demanded in lawsuits filed Thursday, that three of Scott Rothstein’s former law...
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Feb 11 2010
In Pennsylvania state court proceedings on Tuesday, lawyers representing Cravath, Swaine & Moore rejected claims that the firm breached its fiduciary duty to Airgas by...
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Feb 02 2010
Two US personal injury law firms, Parker Waichman Alonso and the Becnel Law Firm are joining forces sue Toyota on behalf of consumers who bought Toyota Camry and...
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Dec 18 2009
The Simon Law Firm represents Bing! Interactive Design in a suit against Microsoft Corp., alleging trademark infringement, unfair competition and tortious interference...
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Sep 18 2009
The founders of Skype are suing eBay for copyright infringement, a move that could block eBay's deal to sell a majority stake in Skype to a group of private investors...
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Sep 18 2009
Latham & Watkins helped its client Prometheus Laboratories overturn a ruling concerning the patentability of the company's method to treat Crohn's disease and other...
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Sep 11 2009
Facebook and German social network operator StudiVZ have reached a settlement in the alleged plagiarism case, with the StudiVZ paying Facebook an undisclosed sum as...
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Sep 09 2009
A group of 72 former Dresdner Kleinwort traders who worked for the investment bank in London until it was sold to Commerzbank, have sued Commerzbank for €34m in...
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Aug 31 2009
Investor client of Stanford Financial Group have filed a class action against US law firm Proskauer Rose and its partner Thomas Sjoblom in the U.S. District Court for...
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Aug 28 2009
Proskauer Rose has filed suit yesterday for the American Bar Association (ABA) in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against the Federal Trade...
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Aug 26 2009
Virginia-based patent holding SPH America has sued Foley & Lardner for allegedly revealing confidential information and for undermining the company's settlement...
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Aug 26 2009
French investment bank Calyon is is seeking more than $1.68 billion in damages from Germany's KB Deutsche Industriebank AG in the High Court of Justice in London, in...
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Aug 10 2009
Around nine former Linklaters employees are about to take legal action against Linklaters, writes RollOnFriday.
According to the report, one associate has already...
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Jun 17 2009
Facebook’s legal challenge to shut down its German rival StudiVZ has failed after a Cologne court rejected the social networking site’s argument that StudiVZ copied...
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May 19 2009
Holland & Knight is facing another lawsuit over its legal work for alleged Ponzi schemer Arthur Nadel.
Several investors who lost about $4.5 million in funds...
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Nov 26 2008
Three Thelen associates and a staff member filed suit against Thelen in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, alleging that the firm...
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Oct 11 2008
Marc Lubin is seeking $6million from Dechert claiming that he moved from Skadden to Dechert for less money because he wanted greater exposure to deals. He claims that...
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Oct 07 2008
Marc Lubin, a former Dechert has filed suit against the firm in New York claiming it exaggerated the extent of its corporate work in order to woo him, did not provide...
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Aug 27 2008
A lawyer accused of defaming Long Island law firm Galasso, Langione, Catterson & LoFrumento during his defense of its bookkeeper has failed to win dismissal of the...
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Aug 19 2008
The NYT’s City Room blog reports that Roy Den Hollander — “a Manhattan lawyer and a self-described antifeminist” who in the past year has sued nightclubs for favoring...
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Aug 18 2008
An Austin, Texas, attorney who has the same name as a defendant in an Internet libel suit that has drawn national media attention has asked an attorney for the...
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Aug 14 2008
In a lawsuit filed in New York State Court, Trump accuses New York law firm Morrison Cohen and one of its partners, David Scharf, of violating his privacy by using his...
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Aug 07 2008
Taylor Wessing, the City law firm, has sued an American rival for $5 million (£2.6 million) for allegedly illegally poaching several partners from its Paris office....
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Aug 02 2008
David Aufhauser, a former general counsel of UBS’s investment bank, is one of seven senior executives accused of pulling $21 million (£10.6 million) of their own money...
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Aug 01 2008
Italian publishing company Mediaset has hired local litigation firms Calleri Noviello & Morazzoni Sangalli and Studio Previti to represent it in a €500m lawsuit...
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Aug 01 2008
Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins is one one of many US law firms vying to represent disgruntled investors in the French bank Société Générale. The law firm hopes...
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Jul 28 2008
A judge said he will dismiss McAfee's lawsuit against Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale and Dorr over alleged overbilling in its $12 million criminal defense tab for...
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Jul 25 2008
Baker & McKenzie has prevailed over a Scottish family in a fight over the narnia.mobi domain name, after a decision from the World Intellectual Property Organisation...
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Jul 22 2008
Anti-virus software maker McAfee Inc. is embroiled with Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale and Dorr over $12 million in legal fees incurred in the trial of former McAfee...
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Jul 15 2008
eBay today won a landmark trademark case that had been filed against the company by Tiffany. The jewelery retailer had sued eBay in 2004, alleging that many of the...
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Jul 04 2008
Devo's law firm has denied recent media reports that the post-punk band known best for its song “Whip It,” was suing McDonald’s for appropriating the band’s signature...
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Jul 01 2008
A law firm has followed through on its threat to sue the Virginia Lottery on behalf of a Washington and Lee University professor who says he discovered that the...
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Jun 23 2008
JPMorgan has ditched Linklaters from its list of preferred advisers following a row over the magic circle firm’s role in suing Bear Stearns on behalf of Barclays...
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Jun 17 2008
The European aerospace group EADS on Monday defended its record for transparency after two U.S. law firms fired opening salvos in a possible class-action lawsuit...
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May 19 2008
Members of a Calgary law firm Merchant Law Group (MLG) are being sued by a former associate who claims he spearheaded their successful battle to win compensation for...
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May 07 2008
Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP, a law firm representing two Detroit public pension funds said it is amending its lawsuit against Yahoo Inc., arguing that...
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Apr 09 2008
A Reno, Nev., man has filed a state lawsuit claiming that the U.S. Constitution would have to be amended to allow Sen. Hillary Clinton to appear on the presidential...
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Feb 29 2008
Using some of his toughest language in weeks, President Bush prodded Congress on Thursday to pass his preferred version of surveillance legislation, asserting that...
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Oct 29 2007
Internet VoIP provider Vonage Holding Corp. on Thursday settled a patent lawsuit against it brought by Verizon Communications for up to $120 million.
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Oct 27 2007
A gay lawyer who sued Sullivan & Cromwell, one of America’s most prestigious law firms, over allegations of discrimination has settled his case. Aaron Charney, 28,...
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Sep 20 2007
A New York law firm accused of paying kickbacks to plaintiffs in class-action and shareholder lawsuits said Wednesday that one of its partners will be indicted and...
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