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Live Nation Inks $20M Deal Over Swift Tour-Tied Investor Suit
Investors suing Live Nation Entertainment Inc. have asked a California federal judge to approve a $20 million deal ending claims that the company made misleading statements about its operations when news of alleged anticompetitive practices with Ticketmaster caused stock prices to drop following the tickets sales debacle for Taylor Swift's The Eras Tour.
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NFL Blew Chance To Keep Atty Fees, Ex-Player Tells 5th Circ.
Former NFL player Michael Cloud, whose award of disability benefits by the league was reversed in 2023, told the Fifth Circuit that the league had forfeited its chance to reverse the awarding of attorney fees and should have its second attempt thrown out.
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Ill. Law Firm Accused Of Suing Wrong Co., Lying About Error
A doctor who sought to pursue an employment discrimination claim against former employer Humana Inc. claims in an Illinois state court lawsuit that the law firm he hired to handle his case filed claims against Cigna instead, forged his signature and didn't fix its attorneys' errors before the statute of limitations ran out.
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Former Vermont US Atty Joins Boutique Stris & Maher
An attorney who worked for several years as a civil litigator within the U.S. Department of Justice before serving as U.S. attorney for Vermont during the Biden administration, has joined boutique litigation firm Stris & Maher LLP, the firm has announced.
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Lawyers Slam Trump Memo On 'Vexatious' Attys
BigLaw attorneys, immigration lawyers and legal advocacy organizations have been quick to blast President Donald Trump for what some of them call an "inexcusable and despicable" memo that is meant to intimidate attorneys out of challenging the administration.
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Reed Smith Accused Of Interference In $102M Award Fight
The purported new owners of Eletson Holdings Inc., a reorganized international shipping group, have urged the Second Circuit to nix Reed Smith's appeal challenging the law firm's removal as counsel for the company's prebankruptcy shareholders in an enforcement action, saying the former owners declined the opportunity to intervene and that their counsel cannot intervene on their behalf.
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Ga. Law Firm Accuses Recruiting Agency Of Contract Breach
Atlanta law firm Mozley Finlayson & Loggins LLP is accusing recruiting company Frederick Fox LLC of breach of contract after it refused to pay back a more than $36,000 placement fee when its candidate quickly left his role.
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Sheppard Mullin, Others Accused Of Aiding Loan Fraud
An investor has hit Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP, a former managing partner and multiple other individuals with a sprawling lawsuit in California state court, alleging they made a series of fraudulent transactions to dupe him out of his initial $650,000 loan, eventually costing him millions of dollars in lost profits and legal fees.
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NJ University Launches Malpractice Suit Over Forfeited Land
Rider University has sued a now-defunct New Jersey firm claiming it mishandled a land deal in the early 1990s, leading Rider to believe it owned a $42 million property only to later have its ownership rights challenged and defeated in court.
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Pa. Judge Largely OKs Schnader Harrison Overbilling Suit
A real estate company's lawsuit claiming that now-defunct law firm Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP inflated its bills by more than $1 million will continue after a Philadelphia County judge overruled most of the firm's preliminary objections.
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Akin Lands Co-Leader Of Munger Tolles Practice Group In LA
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP announced Monday that it has hired the former co-chair of Munger Tolles & Olson LLP's trade secret and employee mobility practice group to enhance its litigation services in California and beyond.
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Reed Smith Adds Baker McKenzie Arbitration Pro In Dallas
Reed Smith LLP announced Monday that it has added a Dallas-based partner to its global commercial disputes group and international arbitration team who has come aboard from Baker McKenzie.
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Conn. Firms Sue For $175K Fee After 8-Year Estate Litigation
Two Connecticut law firms have sued a grandmother's estate to recoup $175,000 in attorney fees, saying they've spent eight years litigating four separate challenges to the woman's will and haven't been paid in more than five years.
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Colorado E-Discovery Co. Rebrands To Minerva26
Boulder, Colorado-based eDiscovery Assistant, which offers a case law database for litigators working with electronically stored information, announced on Monday a rebranding to Minerva26 over the coming weeks.
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Trump Tells AG To Seek Sanctions On 'Vexatious' Attys
President Donald Trump on Friday night directed the U.S. attorney general to seek sanctions against attorneys and firms who lodge "frivolous, unreasonable, and vexatious" lawsuits against the federal government, focusing on immigration and BigLaw attorneys he claims "coach clients to conceal their past or lie" when seeking asylum.
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Attys Suing FIFA Say Humans, Not AI, Made Citation Errors
Attorneys accusing soccer's international governing body, its Puerto Rican affiliate and a regional soccer association of trying to block local rivals told a Puerto Rico federal judge Friday that it was simply human oversight — not the use of artificial intelligence — that led to citation inaccuracies in recent filings.
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Justice Dept. Wants To Sub In For Trump In Jan. 6 Riot Cases
The U.S. Department of Justice has asked a Washington, D.C., federal court to allow it to take the place of President Donald Trump in suits brought by federal lawmakers and Capitol police officers over the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, arguing that the cases center on actions he took as a federal employee.
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Divisive Del. Corporate Law Bill May Get Compromise Tweak
A Delaware state representative reported active interest Friday in possible "opt-in" requirements for proposed changes to the section of Delaware's general corporation law pertaining to potentially conflicted business transactions and controlling investors.
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Jenner & Block Fights Sierra Leone's Fraud Claims In $8M Suit
Jenner & Block LLP on Thursday urged a D.C. federal judge to nix Sierra Leone's counterclaim accusing the firm of fraud as it looks to collect some $8 million from the country in unpaid legal fees, saying the claim is improper in a breach of contract suit.
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Ga. Tort Refom Bill Gets Lawmakers' Final Approval
Georgia lawmakers gave final approval Friday to the state's first significant civil justice overhaul legislation in two decades, sending the bill to the desk of its biggest proponent, Gov. Brian Kemp, a day after it cleared the House of Representatives.
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MGM Says Atty Fees Shouldn't Be Triple Mich. Worker's Award
MGM Grand Casino said attorneys for a fired employee cannot recoup more than three times the $133,000 a Michigan federal jury awarded him earlier this year in his lawsuit alleging he was improperly denied religious accommodation from the company's COVID-19 vaccine policy.
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DOJ Seeks To DQ Judge From Perkins Coie's Exec Order Suit
The U.S. Department of Justice moved Friday to disqualify the D.C. federal judge presiding over Perkins Coie LLP's challenge to President Donald Trump's executive order targeting the firm for its diversity-focused hiring efforts and its political representation.
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Wright Says Defamation Suit Did Not Violate Anti-SLAPP Law
Onetime Federal Trade Commission member and law professor Joshua Wright, who recently dropped a $108 million defamation suit against two attorneys who accused him of sexual misconduct, is now fighting a sanctions bid brought by one of the women, arguing it hinges on "selective — and largely misleading — presentation of evidence."
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Ex-Buzbee Client Says Roc Nation Can't Exit Conspiracy Suit
Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter's company Roc Nation can't exit a lawsuit that claims his company conspired to "finance" malpractice suits against attorney Tony Buzbee because it was "an integral and driving force" behind the alleged misconduct, according to a response filed in Texas federal court to a motion to dismiss on jurisdictional grounds.
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Harvard Grad Eyes New Complaint In Antisemitism Suit
A former student on Thursday accused Harvard University of using "litigation tactics" to thwart an amended complaint in a suit over the Ivy League school's handling of antisemitic incidents on campus, after the school settled with some of the plaintiffs in the case.