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Top Ten Frivolous Lawsuits of 2011

Top Ten Frivolous Lawsuits of 2011

The 2012 year is finally here and we can put 2011 behind us. But, before we forget the tough year that was, let us not forget the frivolous lawsuits that…

Getting ‘Hip’ to Medical Implant Failure – All Metal Artificial Hips Costing Patients, Insurers and Taxpayers Billions

Getting ‘Hip’ to Medical Implant Failure – All Metal Artificial Hips Costing Patients, Insurers and Taxpayers Billions

Medical and legal experts are estimating that the widespread failure of thousands of all-metal artificial hips could be costing taxpayers, insurers, employers and others in the neighborhood of billions of…

Big Guns Brought In To Defend Florida Oil Suits

Big Guns Brought In To Defend Florida Oil Suits

With the number of lawsuits related to the massive oil spill in the Gulf mounting daily, Tampa Bay Online reports that some of many of the high profile companies targeted…

Laid Off Laywers Sue Clifford Chance

Laid Off Laywers Sue Clifford Chance

Two non-equity partners laid off from the Düsseldorf, Germany office of Clifford Chance are suing the firm over their termination. The partners were fired as shareholders, but claim they were…

Linklaters’ ‘New World’ Faces Legal Action from Redundant Staffer

Linklaters’ ‘New World’ Faces Legal Action from Redundant Staffer

British blawgs are reporting that Linklaters wants to avoid legal action from a former employee let go during a massive redundancy consultation that targeted 400. The firm confirmed that it…

Laid Off Garden Stirling Employees Win Compensation

Laid Off Garden Stirling Employees Win Compensation

A Scottish employment tribunal has awarded £20,000 in compensation to two former staffers at Garden Stirling. The tribunal rejected claims made by 56-year-old paralegal assistant Linda Bruce, and 52-year-old financial…

Bar Shuts Down Three Offices of ‘Vexatious Litigant’

The State Bar of California has shuttered three Southern California offices of attorney Mitchell W. Roth, who was recently declared a vexatious litigant by a federal judge in Los Angeles.…

Thelen Won’t Pay Laid-Off Workers

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…

Law Firm Layoffs Spark Lawsuits

The ABA Journal notes that an unprecedented wave of law firm layoffs is leading to a second wave of ex-employee lawsuits. The suits could air “salacious allegations that once remained…

Did Lawyer Defections Kill Firm?

Nine years after a 14-lawyer exodus led to the demise of a prominent bankruptcy firm, the partners left behind are finally getting their day in court. An Essex County judge…

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