On May 23, the first verdict in the nation over Zantac came out in Illinois, while a Delaware judge’s May 31 decision barred plaintiffs’ experts for thousands of cases.
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Employers Are Calling Their Lawyers as Overtime Rule Revisions Loom
“You need to stay up to the minute on developments,” said Mark S. Goldstein, a labor and employment lawyer at Reed Smith. “We have to be able to be flexible and pivot quite quickly, with the patchwork of employment laws at the state and local level.”
The Law Firm Disrupted: Deja Vu for a Regional Stalwart?
The spot that Boston’s Burns & Levinson finds itself in feels distressingly similar to Philadelphia’s Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis a year ago.
Federal Judge Clears Path for Policyholder's Class Action Against USAA for $7M Interest on Improperly Retained Late Fees
U.S. District Judge Peter J. Messitte of the District of Maryland ruled the plaintiff pleaded facts clearly to suggest USAA “knew full well that they had the use of the late fees,” and “they understood the time-value of the fees” and their interest-bearing potential, according to a June 11 opinion.
Recent Revisions to the NVCA Model Forms
The National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), the self-designated flagship trade association of the venture capital (VC) industry, has developed a widely used set of annotated model legal documents as the starting point for negotiating VC financing transactions.