“Veltex Corporation announced today Micah Taylor Reeves of Kralovec, Jambois and Schwartz will join Veltex as general counsel. This appointment comes as Merle L. Royce of Royce Law Offices, has officially tendered his resignation as General Counsel for Veltex due to health-related concerns,” reports PR Newswire in their blog.

“Mr. Royce has been an immeasurable asset to Veltex throughout its history.  He has contributed greatly throughout Veltex’s litigation and its transition into rehabilitative healthcare acquisition.  Mr. Royce will be greatly missed and Veltex wishes him a speedy recovery. Mr. Reeves has been assisting Mr. Royce with legal matters related to OTC.”

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“Switch Inc. saw its quarterly losses jump by more than $17 million after settling a long-running $35 million lawsuit with a now-defunct rival data center firm. In 2017, Switch was sued by fellow Las Vegas data center company Cobalt Data Centers founded by former Switch CFO Mike Ballard in 2011 which accused,” reports Dan Swinhoe in DCD.

“In its most recent earnings results for Q4 2021, the company reported Q4 Revenue of $161.4 million, a Net Loss of $18.5 million, and Adjusted EBITDA of $85.8 million. The company’s net income losses grew from $900,000 in Q3, despite revenue increasing by more than $3 million. The company noted its results included a $35 million.”

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“Precision Castparts Corp. has agreed to pay $22.5 million to settle a class action lawsuit over air pollution coming from its metal parts manufacturing facility in Southeast Portland. Last week, a Multnomah County Circuit Court judge gave preliminary approval to the settlement, which stems from,” reports Cassandra Profita in OPB.

“The settlement includes $7.7 million the company already spent on air pollution controls to reduce the amount of nickel and other pollutants being released from Precision Castparts’ operations. The company has also spent more than $300,000 on air monitoring equipment to test for pollution in the surrounding neighborhood and will be.”

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“For the past few years, law student recruitment for summer associate programs has been incredibly successful, harkening back to a time when law students quickly accepted the offers that Biglaw firms handed out like candy. Amid an unprecedented cash rush for associates and high demand for,” reports Staci Zaretsky in Above The Law.

“The 2021 recruitment cycle was no different offers were plentiful, and acceptance of those offers was even higher. Things are going smashingly well in the Biglaw sphere when it comes to recruitment. According to the latest recruiting figures from the National Association for Law Placement NALP, offer rates from Biglaw summer.”

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“Citizens Financial Group, Inc. NYSE: CFG announced today the appointment of Polly N. Klane as General Counsel and Chief Legal Officer, effective April 4. Klane joins Citizens from Capital One Financial Corp., where she most recently has served as Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel,” reports Business Wire in their blog.

“Klane has more than 25 years of legal experience including with large, publicly traded financial services organizations and leading law firms. At Capital One she managed legal teams responsible for corporate transactions, corporate governance, securities, commercial banking, capital markets, intellectual property, treasury.”

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“Three plaintiffs’ law firms have asked a federal judge to award more than $20 million in legal fees as part of a $66 million antitrust settlement with banks accused of participating in a scheme to fix ATM charges. The class attorneys representing ATM operators and consumers said in a petition for fees on,” reports Mike Scarcella in Reuters.

“The proposed settlement, which needs to be approved by a judge, would resolve a legal battle that began after Mylan, in 2016, raised the price for a pack of two EpiPens to $608 from $100, the price since 2007, according to court documents. In the lawsuit, a group of plaintiffs made up of consumers, health insurance companies and other.”

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“Viatris, the drugmaker previously known as Mylan, announced on Monday that it had agreed to pay $264 million to settle a class-action lawsuit that alleged the company was involved in an illegal scheme to monopolize the market for epinephrine auto-injector devices known as EpiPens, which are,” reports Jesus Jimenez in The New York Times.

“The proposed settlement, which needs to be approved by a judge, would resolve a legal battle that began after Mylan, in 2016, raised the price for a pack of two EpiPens to $608 from $100, the price since 2007, according to court documents. In the lawsuit, a group of plaintiffs made up of consumers, health insurance companies and other.”

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“One of the biggest impacts we can expect with the new law banning arbitration of certain new sexual harassment claims is a likely explosion in the number of cases filed and litigated in state and federal court, given the prevalence of employment arbitration agreements, Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP employment attorneys predict,” reports Roberta, Rachel & Julie in Bloomberg Law.

“President Biden is expected to sign legislation that explicitly amends the Federal Arbitration Act to make pre-dispute arbitration agreements and class (or joint) action waivers unenforceable for claims involving sexual assault or sexual harassment.”

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Dallas Trial Lawyer Dick Sayles Inducted into D Magazine’s Inaugural Hall of Fame List

Mr. Sayles is one of 50 selected for prestigious honor

DALLAS – Esteemed trial lawyer and Bradley partner Dick Sayles is being honored as a member of D Magazine’s first Best Lawyers in Dallas Hall of Fame list. The award is one the magazine is bestowing only on attorneys who have been named to its Best Lawyers in Dallas list a minimum of 15 times.

“When you’re doing a client’s work, you’re of course concentrating on that and not really thinking about these kinds of honors,” said Mr. Sayles. “But it is very gratifying to see the good work you do honored in this way. And it is nice to be included among the other fine lawyers named to this list.”

Mr. Sayles has developed a national reputation for his work in the courtroom, bringing over 150 cases to verdict and earning more than a dozen multimillion-dollar jury verdicts along with high-profile defense wins. He has an active caseload in state and federal venues across the country, representing clients in a range of commercial litigation including securities, healthcare, product liability, patent infringement disputes and high-stakes commercial litigation.

Honored as the Dallas Bar Association’s Trial Lawyer of the Year in 2018, Mr. Sayles has also been recognized by Benchmark Litigation and Best Lawyers in America. In addition, he is a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers, the International Academy of Trial Lawyers, and the International Society of Barristers. Mr. Sayles was featured in Texas Lawbook’s “Lions of the Texas Bar” and has been selected among the Texas Super Lawyers Top 10 lawyers in Texas multiple times. Mr. Sayles was previously named in the 2020 edition of the Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America, and most recently he was inducted into Lawdragon’s Hall of Fame earlier this year.

About Bradley

Bradley combines skilled legal counsel with exceptional client service and unwavering integrity to assist a diverse range of corporate and individual clients in achieving their business goals. With offices in Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and the District of Columbia, the firm’s nearly 600 lawyers represent clients worldwide in a wide range of professions, including financial services, healthcare, construction, technology, energy, insurance, and many others.

Contract Logix, a leading provider of data-driven contract management software, today announced the appointment of its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Karen Meyer. Meyer brings more than 20 years of Software as a Service (SaaS) experience to the role, as well as a passion for helping organizations scale and grow.

She joins Contract Logix from Upland Software, where she served as head of the company’s Global Customer Success organization, responsible for commercial and customer engagement teams for over a dozen products. Meyer will leverage this experience to lead and accelerate Contract Logix through its next phase of growth, as it continues its mission to help organizations uncover and mitigate hidden contractual risk through process automation, data-driven intelligence, and real-time collaboration.

In her prior role, Meyer was critical in driving Upland’s M&A and integration strategies leading to high growth and strong customer retention. She brings a unique blend of customer advocacy, communications, and sales effectiveness and enablement skills to Contract Logix. She also held executive leadership roles at Qvidian, a proposal and RFP automation provider, leading to the acquisition of the company in 2017.

“Contract Logix has over fifteen years of experience helping customers automate and optimize their contract management and support their broader digital transformation efforts, and I could not be more excited about joining this team,” said Meyer. “I am passionate about listening to customers and helping solve problems. Joining a company with a customer-centric culture focused on helping them successfully achieve fast time-to-value and broad user adoption seemed like the perfect fit. I look forward to helping grow our business and strengthening existing relationships.”

“As a longtime leading provider of data-driven contract lifecycle management software, Contract Logix has a tremendous growth opportunity in serving the needs of any organization looking to streamline their contracting processes,” said Lewis Miller, Chairman of the Board of Directors at Contract Logix. “We believe Karen will help accelerate the pace of growth and innovation of the company, and with her outstanding mix of strategic and operational experience, Contract Logix will continue to scale with speed.”

This announcement closely follows a period of significant growth for Contract Logix. Over the past 12-months, the company has seen a triple-digit percentage increase in platform usage as it rapidly adds new customers and expands existing relationships. This tremendous growth is evidence of the need and desire for organizations to digitally transform and simplify the way they conduct business with greater compliance, business agility, security, and collaboration.

“Two Republican congressional candidates with extensive experience in energy faulted the Biden administration for weakening the United States’ energy independence and warned that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine highlights the importance of America’s energy independence. We’re seeing now that energy,” reports Tyler O’Neil in Fox News.

“Alexis Martinez Johnson, an environmental engineer and Republican candidate for New Mexico’s 3rd Congressional District, told Fox News Digital. We need to be producing natural gas and oil, as an exporter, not only to ensure low energy costs at home, but also to keep our allies from being beholden to Russia. Europe has become.”

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“MRC Global Inc. NYSE: MRC announced today that Aker Solutions AS has awarded MRC Global Norway AS contracts to provide the complete scope of valves, instrumentation, piping, tubing and fittings for the Sunrise Wind offshore wind power project located east of Long Island’s Montauk Point in,” reports Globe News Wire in their blog.

“The Sunrise Wind project will be the largest offshore wind farm by power generation capacity in the state of New York. Located over 30 miles offshore east of Long Island’s Montauk Point, the 924 MW project will be sufficient to power nearly 600,000 homes and supply 100% renewable energy to help realize New York’s vision of becoming.”

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“The actor John Douglas Thompson, now legendary among theatre audiences for his interpretations of classical material, is his own philharmonic of well-tuned instruments. His voice, at a rumble or a rasp, glides from line to line and feeling to feeling he turns Shakespeare’s flurries and puzzles,” reports Vinson Cunningham in The New Yorker.

“Language into seemingly inevitable verbal outpourings of unknowable internal processes. His face, similarly, is a map of emotions. Before he speaks, his brows churn and his mouth searches. Whatever he says next has been looked for and, somewhere deep in the soul, found. But, in a new production of The Merchant of Venice directed by Arin.”

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“Last offseason, Green Bay Packers general manager Brian Gutekunst and his right-hand man, Russ Ball, inserted void years into the contracts of four contracts to help the team deal with a challenging salary cap. At 3 p.m. Monday, all those contracts officially voided. From a personnel perspective, it means,” reports Bill Huber in Fan Nation.

“All-Pro inside linebacker De’Vondre Campbell signed a one-year, $2 million contract in June that turned out to be the biggest bargain in the NFL. It included a minimum base salary and a $1.01 million signing bonus that was prorated over five years with the addition of four void years. With his contract voided, the remaining $808,000.”

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“As Russia invades Ukraine, Baker McKenzie and Dentons have closed up their Ukraine offices. No word on the DLA Piper presence, but it’s likely closed up as well. Dentons told Bloomberg Law that We are in regular contact with our team in Kyiv and are providing our 49 colleagues with any assistance they,” reports Joe Patrice in Above The Law.

“Which is to be expected. It’s impossible to imagine a global law firm operating in Ukraine over the last few years without formulating an emergency response. As soon as the former administration lifted sanctions on Russia and held up military aid to Ukraine, conflict may not have been guaranteed, but became increasingly likely.”

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“The College announced the appointment of the new Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary Matthew D. Lahey on Jan. 11. At Oberlin, Lahey will be responsible for a number of Oberlin’s legal needs, in addition to overseeing the restructuring of the Board of Trustees bylaws and,” reports Kushagra Kar in The Oberlin Review.

“Supporting the implementation of One Oberlin. Lahey’s appointment has sparked controversy among Oberlin alumni, faculty, and staff and who are concerned about a LinkedIn profile that included union avoidance among his skills. Following the creation of the Office of the Vice President, Following the creation of the Office of the Vice.”

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“A historic $1.85 billion settlement reached late last week with opioid manufacturers and distributors resulted from the diligent work of the Texas Attorney General’s office and a committee of top lawyers, including The Lanier Law Firm’s Dara Hegar. The settlement marks a key milestone in the state’s ongoing,” reports PR Newswire in their blog.

“Established to seek compensation for the efforts of state and local governments to cope with the epidemic of opioid abuse, as well as fund education, intervention and treatment programs across the state. In addition to Ms. Hegar, members of the negotiating team included Ken Paxton and Lesley French of the Texas Office of the Attorney.”

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“The Arkansas Teacher Retirement System on Friday unanimously approved a $642 million settlement with Allianz, the German finance company it sued for losing $774 million of its pension fund during the March 2020 market panic. The settlement amount does not include attorney’s fees and other,” reports Scott Carroll in Above The Law.

“The teachers fund filed suit in July 2020, accusing Allianz of breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty and negligence. The company had bet heavily on stock options, and it argued that the losses were the result of unprecedented market volatility at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. The teachers fund wasn’t the only.”

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DISCO Expands Products Portfolio, Acquires Legal Hold and Workflow Technology Assets
AUSTIN, Texas — February 24, 2022 — Legal technology leader DISCO (NYSE: LAW) today announced it has acquired legal workflow products Hold360 and Request360, as well as related regulatory and alert solutions, from Congruity 360, LLC. These critical legal workflow capabilities will integrate with DISCO’s market-leading cloud-based ediscovery platform and provide a modern, digital solution for corporate legal hold obligations and legal request compliance.

Hold360 and Request360 are next-generation, streamlined technology solutions that eliminate the challenges from legacy solutions, which relied on human processes, teams of attorneys and legal professionals, and limited technological solutions to ensure compliance with legal preservation obligations.

With Hold360 and Request360, DISCO will expand its solution set to address the legal hold requirements of customers, including the ability to hold data and documents in place electronically rather than recreate, store, and manage copies of duplicative data. Further, silent hold capabilities allow legal teams to easily enact holds, without the need to engage IT departments to ensure retention of sensitive information. The easy-to-deploy solutions and workflow allow corporate legal teams to save time and resources and improve their compliance with state and federal laws.

“The legal hold product team that is joining DISCO has built modern, complete solutions for the legal workflow needs of today, complementing DISCO’s solutions that empower legal departments to focus on delivering better legal outcomes,” said DISCO Chief Product Officer Kevin Smith. “We are excited to further demonstrate how great technology can empower legal teams, save time and money, increase efficiency, and ensure compliance. This also addresses the unmet needs of our legal services partners, many of whom have relied on legacy services to fill this critical gap for their customers.”

“When you look at the legal technology market, there are few companies that have enough disruptive DNA to upset the status quo. DISCO has the product-centricity, go-to-market scale, and velocity to drive real change,” said John Sanchez, founder of Hold360 and Request360. “We are excited to join the DISCO team and accelerate our contribution to transforming how legal work is done in the modern era.”

About DISCO

DISCO (NYSE: LAW) provides a cloud-native, artificial intelligence-powered legal solution that simplifies ediscovery, legal document review and case management for enterprises, law firms, legal services providers and governments. Our scalable, integrated solution enables legal departments to easily collect, process and review enterprise data that is relevant or potentially relevant to legal matters.

References to “DISCO”, “our,” or “we” in this press release refer to CS Disco, Inc. and its subsidiaries on a consolidated basis.

Nevada lawyer Dan Polsenberg has been elected President of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers. Polsenberg is a partner in the Las Vegas and Reno offices of Lewis Roca.

The Appellate Academy is one of the most prestigious appellate organizations in the country. It is an exclusive, invitation-only membership, comprised of 350 of America’s best lawyers who do appeals.

With over 30 years as a litigator, Polsenberg has personally argued 285 appeals and authored briefs in over a thousand more. These cases cover the legal field, ranging from contracts to constitutional law and from torts to tax. He has garnered the reputation as the Nevada lawyer for a “big appeal.”

Polsenberg is past president of both the State Bar of Nevada and the Clark County Bar. Twenty years ago, he was inducted as the first Nevadan to be a fellow of the Appellate Academy. Polsenberg is the second Lewis Roca lawyer to serve as President of the organization.

For the next year as President, Polsenberg looks to implement initiatives to diversify the lawyers who practice appellate law throughout the United States. He will also focus on efforts to expand the areas in which the Appellate Academy will file “friend of the court” briefs. Polsenberg also wants to have the Academy develop reforms to improve court rules.

Continuously ranked by top legal publications including Chambers USA, Benchmark Litigation, The Best Lawyers in America, and three-times as the number one lawyer by Mountain State Super Lawyers, Polsenberg has earned the respect of his peers as one of the nation’s top lawyers.

About Lewis Roca

Lewis Roca is an Am Law 200 law firm serving clients globally in complex litigation, intellectual property, business transactions, gaming, government relations, labor and employment, and regulatory counseling. Its offices are located in Albuquerque, Colorado Springs, Denver, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Reno, Silicon Valley, and Tucson. To learn more about the firm, please visit us at our website at www.lewisroca.com.