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Settlement: $55M Settlement Reached in Online Hotel Booking Sites Class Action Lawsuit

Home Page > > Settlements > > $55M Settlement Reached in Online Hotel Booking Sites Class Action Lawsuit Los Angeles, CA: A $55 million settlement has been reached in the unfair business practices practices class action pending against Hotels.com LP, Expedia Inc., Hotwire Inc. Read more »

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Settlement: $7M Settlement Reached in Google Wi-Fi Data Theft Investigation

Home Page > > Settlements > > $7M Settlement Reached in Google Wi-Fi Data Theft Investigation San Francisco, CA: A $7 million settlement has been reached between Google and several state Attorneys General (AGs), ending the AGs investigation into claims Read more »

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Settlement: $615M SEC Settlment Reached in Hedge Fund Insider Trading Charges

Home Page > > Settlements > > $615M SEC Settlment Reached in Hedge Fund Insider Trading Charges New York, NY: CR Intrinsic Investors and Sigma Capital Management have agreed to pay $615 million to the US Securities and Exchange Commission Read more »

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Law Suit Filed: Job Website The Ladders Faces Class Action Over Job Postings

March 13 2013 New York, NY: An unfair business practices class action lawsuit has been filed by Bursor & Fisher, P.A., on behalf of premium members of TheLadders.com from March 11, 2007 through August 31, 2011.The lawsuit alleges that from Read more »

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Settlement: AT&T Pre-Recorded Calls Class Action Lawsuit Settlement

March 13 2013 Seattle, WA: There is a proposed Settlement in a class action pending in the US District Court for the Western District of Washington. The class action lawsuit concerns the alleged failure by AT&T Corp Read more »

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Possible Case: Capital One Deceptive Marketing Practices

Home Page > > Potential Lawsuit > > Capital One Deceptive Marketing Practices Washington, DC: Capital One customers who called to activate a new credit card, may have been routed to representatives who try to sell additional products such as Read more »

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Settlement: $9.75M Settlement Reached in Domino’s Pizza Franchise Robo-Calls Class Action Lawsuit

January 2 2013 Baton Rouge, LA: A $9.75 million settlement has been reached in a robo-calls class action lawsuit against Defendant RPM Pizza, LLC (“RPM”), a Domino’s Pizza franchised operator.The lawsuit claims that the Defendants violated federal law by sending Read more »

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IP Roundup: Debating Bad Patents, Not Patent Trolls

By&nbspBrian ZabcikAll Articles The Litigation DailyMay 17, 2013 Patent trolls have been the subject of increasing debate, but should we be focusing on bad patents instead? That’s the interesting question posed at a recent panel discussion on patent-assertion entities at Read more »

Judge Revives $774 Million Securities Case Against JPMorgan

For the lawyers fighting Dexia SA’s mortgage-backed securities lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase & Co., Jed Rakoff giveth, and Rakoff taketh away.Last month, when we named Daniel Slifkin and J. Read more »

The Careerist: Harvard Law Ranks #1 in World

Are you still fussing with that U.S. News & World Report ranking of law schools? How provincial! We live in the global economy, so what really matters is how your law school ranks internationally Read more »

For Detroit in crisis, next six weeks determine bankruptcy fate

By Bernie Woodall and Karen Pierog DETROIT | Sun May 19, 2013 4:49pm EDT DETROIT May 19 (Reuters) – Bond restructurings, negotiated settlements with bondholders and bond insurers, and tough talk with unionized workers are on the agenda as Detroit’s Read more »

Kirkland Cleans Up on PE Shop’s $1.4 Billion Buy

By&nbspBrian BaxterContactAll Articles The Am Law DailyMay 15, 2013 Kirkland & Ellis clinched its latest large M&A deal on Wednesday as private equity client Pamplona Capital Management acquired the largest laundry equipment service provider in the U.S., as well as Read more »

Ropes Settles Age Discrimination Suit With Ex-Partner

Ropes & Gray has settled a two-year-old discrimination lawsuit brought by former partner Patricia Martone, who claimed Ropes management routinely passed her clients off to younger male partners and unfairly pushed her out of the firm.In a one-page stipulation filed Read more »

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