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Chancery OKs Record-Breaking $100M Pattern Energy Deal
A $100 million settlement ending state and federal court litigation over Pattern Energy Group Inc.'s $6.1 billion go-private sale in 2020 got the nod from Delaware's Court of Chancery on Friday, along with a requested $26 million fee award and two $25,000 incentive awards for the lead shareholder plaintiffs.
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A Legacy Of Love Brings Texas Atty To His Late Son's Firm
Seasoned attorney Alfred "Ted" Ruemke woke up one day, after losing two sons in the span of about two years, in trouble and battling to figure out a way to move on.
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Robbins Geller Attys To Take Stand In $8M Sanctions Dispute
A petroleum refiner will put current and former Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP attorneys on the stand May 7 in an extraordinary evidentiary hearing testing what the plaintiffs' lawyers knew about an analyst's now-discredited findings as they pursued since-nixed price-fixing claims.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Clement & Murphy PLLC and Yetter Coleman LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Fifth Circuit reversed a Texas federal court's $1.6 billion ruling against IBM in an operating agreement dispute with Houston-based software company BMC.
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Ex-Defender Can't Make Feds Release Harassment Reports
A North Carolina federal court rejected a former assistant federal defender's bid to have the federal government release certain #MeToo evidence following a trial over her claims of a botched sexual harassment probe, saying she was "woefully late" in deciding to challenge its confidentiality status.
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Lewis Brisbois Adds 2 Insurance Coverage Pros In The South
Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP has hired a pair of attorneys from a boutique insurance coverage firm as partners for its insurance coverage and bad faith litigation practices for its office in Jackson, Mississippi, the firm said Friday.
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Law Firm Pans Photographer's IP Suit Over Website Image
The Schmidt Firm asked a Texas federal judge Friday to ax a professional photographer's allegations the Dallas-based firm illegally posted his copyrighted image of convicted sexual abuser and ex-Columbia University obstetrician-gynecologist Robert Hadden on its website without permission.
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Taylor English Adds Real Estate, Litigation Attys In Atlanta
Taylor English Duma LLP has expanded its Atlanta office by adding a former Goodman McGuffey LLP attorney to its real estate practice and the ex-director of risk management and insurance for Northside Hospital to its litigation and dispute resolution group.
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Ex-Bond Schoeneck Class Action Co-Head Joins FordHarrison
FordHarrison LLP announced that it hired an experienced employment attorney with over 20 years spent working with a wide range of clients, including Fortune 500 companies, as a partner in its New York office.
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Titan Of The Plaintiffs Bar: Boies Schiller's Sigrid McCawley
Sigrid McCawley was barely back from parental leave with her fourth child in February 2015 when she flew to New York City to take on a case that would turn her life upside down, and change the world.
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Tech Security Firm Founder Sues Buyer For Legal Fees In Del.
The founder of security and information technology service venture Counter Threat Solutions sued the company that acquired it for legal fee advancement in Delaware's Court of Chancery, after accusing the buyer in a Delaware Superior Court suit of fabricating post-closing indemnity claims and refusing to honor payment terms.
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NJ Atty Beats DQ Bid In Tech Software Dispute, For Now
A New Jersey federal judge has shot down a bid to disqualify a Callagy Law attorney from a suit involving two groups of technology industry investors and entrepreneurs following a business deal gone sour, rejecting as premature the defense's argument that his testimony is necessary to its case.
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Legal Industry Gains Jobs In April Following Downward Trend
The U.S. legal sector eased back into a positive trajectory in April, with a gain of 3,200 jobs compared with the previous month, according to preliminary data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
This was another action-packed week for the legal industry as a mega-merger went live, three firms opened up offices in Boston and another acquired a Denver boutique. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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'Inflammatory' Words Spark Sanctions Bid In Child Death Suit
Catholic Charities Corp. and the estate of a 5-year-old boy who an Ohio jury said died in part because of the nonprofit's negligence sparred over whether it violates a "golden rule" of litigation for the jury to picture the boy's suffering, with the nonprofit seeking sanctions over what it considered to be "inflammatory" statements by the estate's attorney.
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No Atty Fees For Objectors To $5.6B Swipe Fees Settlement
Class members who initially objected to a $5.6 billion settlement with Visa and Mastercard cannot collect nearly $1 million in attorney fees, a New York federal judge ruled Thursday, saying they haven't shown their objections to the original 2013 settlement substantially benefited the class.
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Attys Due For Spam Suit Sanction, But Not $750K, Judges Say
Class counsel's misconduct in helping instigate a spam text suit against stock-trading app Robinhood Financial LLC warranted sanctions, a Washington state appeals court panel ruled Thursday, but the judges said the $750,000 penalty went over the top in deterring the bad behavior.
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Split 10th Circ. Spikes $17.3M Atty Fee Over Class Notice
A split Tenth Circuit panel has vacated for a second time a $17.3 million attorney fee award for reaching a $52 million class action settlement over gas well royalty payments, with the majority writing that the lower court erred by not requiring a new class notice regarding the revised fee bid.
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Judgment Vacated In Suit Over Law Professor's Recording
A New Jersey federal judge has agreed to vacate judgments in a suit against a law professor who a jury determined illegally wiretapped her former son-in-law and invaded his privacy.
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Eckert Seamans Sues For Inclusive Zoning Fight Fees
Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott says a group representing Pittsburgh-area developers still owes nearly $76,000 in legal fees for the firm's work on a federal suit challenging an "inclusive zoning" ordinance, according to a complaint filed in Pennsylvania state court Thursday.
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Longtime Calif. Litigators Launch Breakaway Trial Firm
A longtime Los Angeles law firm shut its doors permanently on Tuesday, while a breakoff litigation firm has opened on Wednesday with almost all of the old firm's lawyers.
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4th Circ. Finds Judge Appointment Legit In Black Lung Case
The Fourth Circuit ruled that an administrative law judge who presided over a black lung benefits case was properly reappointed by the U.S. Department of Labor, rejecting Dominion Coal Corp.'s contention that his seating violated the Constitution's appointments clause.
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Seyfarth Litigator Pairs Up With Solo Atty At Atlanta Firm
A former Seyfarth Shaw LLP partner has joined a solo practitioner's employment law firm in Atlanta with the goal of handling plaintiffs employment litigation and trade secret and noncompete matters while capitalizing on the use of generative artificial intelligence.
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If High Court Upends Jan. 6 Conviction, What Happens Next?
If the U.S. Supreme Court decides prosecutors overstepped by charging a rioter who stormed the Capitol with obstruction, the results will likely be mixed for hundreds of other defendants charged with the same crime, particularly those who have been convicted. That post-appeal uncertainty is nothing new, defense attorneys say.
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11th Circ. 'Emphatically' Upholds JCPenney's Sanctions Win
The Eleventh Circuit has affirmed a $63,000 sanction against an Alabama shopping mall amid its lease dispute with JCPenney, finding that the mall acted in bad faith by not notifying the court of a lack of diversity jurisdiction, eventually sinking the case — only after JCPenney won partial summary judgment and a later mediation failed.