Litigation

Five Things You Didn’t Know about Class Action ADR

March 11, 2014

Five things you might not know about the role ADR is playing in class action litigation.

Unique Data Breach Settlement – A Sign Of Things To Come?

March 11, 2014

AvMed’s $3 million data breach class action settlement agreement with patients whose information was on unencrypted laptops stolen in 2009 likely will serve as a model for future data security class action claims.

Bank Late Payment Fees Held to be Penalties – Class Action Risk for Other Industries

March 11, 2014

The Federal Court of Australia found that late payment fees charged by a bank to its credit card customers are unlawful penalties, potentially paving the way for further class actions against businesses in other industries.

Want A Legal Challenge? Depose Justin Bieber

March 11, 2014

If you think your work day was tough, watch the recently-released video of Miami lawyer Mark DiCowden struggling through a […]

New Litigation Risk For M&A Advisors After Delaware Ruling

March 11, 2014

In a case that bodes tougher conflict standards and new litigation risks to M&A advisors, the Delaware Chancery Court last […]

Companies Getting Sued Over Employee Interrogation Techniques

March 10, 2014

A classic police interrogation technique, developed by a law professor in the 1930s, has been widely applied in the business […]

More Mass-Tort Cases Undermined By Plaintiff-Lawyer Corruption

March 10, 2014

Recent rulings show that some plaintiff lawyers are looking to coercion and fraud to replicate David versus Goliath mass-tort lawsuit […]

Book-Cooking Lawyers Violated Cardinal Tenet: Don’t Email Fraud Plans

March 7, 2014

In e-mails spanning nearly four years, former leaders of Dewey & LeBoeuf discussed “fake income,” “accounting tricks,” and their “clueless […]

Company Insider Can Leave, Take Business, Not Breach Fiduciary Duty

March 7, 2014

A Massachusetts court rules that a part owner and key employee of a closely held company who left and started […]

The Hacker Did It – No Coverage

March 6, 2014

Before Target, there was Sony: In 2011, more than seventy million of its user accounts were compromised in a cyber […]

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