The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana has launched a class action lawsuit against the Indiana Board of Law Examiners, alleging that investigating the mental health history of law license applicants violates the Americans with Disabilities Act. The ACLU is representing an anonymous woman who seeks an injunction prohibiting the BLE from asking certain questions about [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Cohen Milstein has hired two new litigators for its New York office, Joel Laitman and Christopher Lometti, both from Schoengold Sporn Laitman Lometti. Laitman and Lometti will handle complex securities fraud and investor protection litigation. Both were name partners at Schoengold. New York City’s Schoengold Sporn Laitman & Lometti is a leading securities fraud law firm that [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, May 14, 2009
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Blawgs are reporting that Skadden has lured over prominent attorney John Beisner and two others from O’Melveny & Myers. Beisner is the chair of O’Melveny’s Class Actions, Mass Torts, and Aggregated Litigation Practice. He will bring with him Jessica Miller and Steve Harburg. Apparently Beisner is a major player at O’Melveny & Myers, and his loss would [...]
Continue reading...Friday, February 27, 2009
Thelen has identified 240 former associates and staff who could assert claims alleging the firm violated the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act by failing to pay adequate wages and vacation time over its December 1st, 2008 dissolution. Thelen announced its dissolution on October 30th, and laid off most of its employees on November [...]
Continue reading...Monday, February 9, 2009
Defunct law firm Thelen LLP is telling courts it couldn’t possibly pay its employees accrued vacation, or give 60 days’ notice of impending layoffs. In response to ex-employees seeking damages under the federal WARN Act, the firm says it should be excused from its obligations because they were impossible to fulfill. Also, because the firm had [...]
Continue reading...Friday, January 30, 2009
Attorney Sandeep Baweja has withdraw as counsel in a class action case after he confessed in court papers that he lost a large portion of the $2.7 million settlement. Baweja was supposed to distribute the funds amongst 800 class members who sued ZipRealty. He instead placed the money in an Ameritrade brokerage account last spring, [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 15, 2009
Lydia B. Parnes, director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection at the Federal Trade Commission, will ankle the agency after 27 years to join the Washington, DC office of Palo Alto, California’s Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, as part of their consumer regulatory practice. FTC Chairman William Kovacic has tapped Eileen Harrington, the bureau’s deputy director, [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 7, 2009
About 20 lawyers at Dreier Stein Kahan Browne Woods George, the Santa Monica, California-based affiliate of Dreier LLP, are leaving to reconstitute Browne Woods George, a litigation boutique that merged with Dreier, Stein & Kahan one year ago. Marc Dreier, founder and managing partner of New York’s Dreier LLP, was charged by federal prosecutors and the SEC [...]
Continue reading...Monday, January 5, 2009
The Lakin Law Firm has been renamed LakinChapman LLC, and former Appellate Court Judge Charles Chapman will join Brad Lakin as a named minority partner in the Wood River, Illinois firm. Chapman, 66, was a Madison County circuit judge from 1979 to 1988, when he has elected to the 5th District Appellate Court in Mount Vernon. Following [...]
Continue reading...Friday, December 19, 2008
Wes & Diane McLeod, who placed a deposit on a unit at Trump Tower Tampa, are suing the developers of that failed project in a potential class action claiming escrow money from deposits was improperly spent. The McLeod’s filed their complaint in circuit court against developers Frank Dagostino, Robert E. Lyons and Patrick Sheppard, as well as the [...]
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