Litigation
Clients cannot collect “emotional distress” against a lawyer who fails to file a lawsuit in a timely manner, and the burden of “uncollectibility” can be placed on the defendant attorney, the Washington Supreme Court ruled in a recent malpractice case.
Outlet shops are the new favorite target for class actions. In the last 90 days, seven major retailers have seen lawsuits in California claim false and deceptive advertising.
The new technologies and the kinds of the intellectual property disputes that are likely to surface as they take hold.
Earlier this year, the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit upheld a district court’s denial of the American Meat […]
Steven M. Richard and Britt Killian, writing on the Nixon Peabody website, discuss the legalities of serving legal process on […]
Earlier this year the Delaware Supreme Court ruled that a company could write bylaws that would require shareholder plaintiffs to […]
Writing in their firm’s blog “California Peculiarities,” Seyfarth Shaw attorneys Nick Geannacopulos and Emily Barker look at what could be […]
Patent cases and multidistrict litigation were two primary contributors to the federal district courts with the heaviest caseloads from June […]
This case may signal a potential new area of liability exposure for directors and officers, but the opinion is also a reminder of just how difficult it is for plaintiffs to survive the initial pleading hurdles…
Twisting the debate over the Supreme Court’s ban on allowing cameras to record oral arguments, HBO’s John Oliver offered an […]
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