Bailey Brauer Adds Labor, Employment & ADA Partner
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Labor, employment and ADA attorney John Bosco has joined Bailey Brauer PLLC.
Bradley Partner Samuel Lipshie Named to Who’s Who Legal: Sports & Entertainment 2019
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Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP Nashville, Tenn.-based partner Samuel D. Lipshie has been listed in the Who’s Who Legal: Sports & Entertainment 2019 directory.
Two Provost Umphrey Jury Awards Earn Top Verdicts Recognition
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Two verdicts won by Provost Umphrey Law Firm earned recognition among the Top Texas Verdicts & Settlements for 2018 based on a comprehensive review by VerdictSearch.
Miller & Chevalier Elects New Leadership
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Miller & Chevalier Chartered announced that the firm’s members elected Kathryn Cameron Atkinson as chair of the firm.
Brown Rudnick Adds New Chair of the Trademark, Copyright & Advertising Practice Group
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Peter J. Willsey and Vincent J. Badolato have joined Brown Rudnick LLP.
Plaintiffs’ Counsel Appointed in Price-Fixing Claims Against Cedar Shake and Shingle Manufacturers
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A federal court in Seattle has appointed Christopher J. Cormier and a legal team at Burns Charest LLP as co-lead counsel in a proposed federal class action against a group of manufacturers of cedar shakes and shingles.
Hogan Lovells Adds IPMT Partners to San Francisco Office
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Krista Schwartz and Patrick Michael have joined Hogan Lovells’ San Francisco office as partners in the firm’s Intellectual Property, Media, and Technology (IPMT) practice.
Greensfelder Adds John Chassaing as Litigation Associate
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John (“Jack”) H. Chassaing has joined the Belleville, Ill., office of Greensfelder, Hemker & Gale, P.C., as an associate in the Litigation practice group.
Bradley Attorney Named to Judicial Nominating Commission in Florida
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Eliot B. Peace, an attorney in the Tampa office of Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP, has been appointed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to the Judicial Nominating Commission for the Second District Court of Appeal.
Houston Oil Executive Gets 18 Years in Prison for Defrauding Investors
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The Houston Chronicle reports that a Houston oil executive was sentenced to state prison for defrauding investors who thought they were paying for the drilling and testing of wells — but instead paid the executive’s mortgage.
Sidley Still Thinks They Handled Partner’s Suicide Correctly. His Widow Disagrees.
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“The two managing partners of the bankruptcy division did not call me, email me, send me a letter,” writes Gabe MacConaill’s widow.
Understanding Contractual Limitations on Liability
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A post on the website of Best Best & Krieger discusses what contractual limitations on liability can mean for a business.
Web Scraping Decisions Consider Contract Cause of Action
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Two recent web scraping disputes highlight some important issues regarding whether a website owner may successfully allege a breach of contract action against a commercial party that has scraped website content, according to a Proskauer post.
Court Holds Delta’s Privacy Policy Isn’t a Contract
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The key to Delta’s victory may have been a novel theory that its privacy policy should not be treated as a contract with a consumer, according to Manatt, Phelps & Phillips.
‘Express Written Consent’ Means Express Written Consent—No More, No Less
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When drafting contracts, you should say what you mean and mean what you say, and reliance on oral representations directly contrary to the terms of a written agreement between sophisticated parties is not justifiable.
Download: Driving Down the Cost of Ediscovery
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A new guide published by Zapproved details a series of real-world best practices for getting ediscovery costs under control.
Clickthrough Litigation Trends 2002-2018: White Paper
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While the content of online legal terms may be bulletproof, the way that companies currently track acceptance may leave them at risk.
Download: Cyber-Risk Oversight: Current and Emerging Practices
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Cyber events have become so prevalent in today’s business world that it’s not a matter of if a company is affected, it’s a matter of when.
Sidley Among Firms Settling Claims Over Their Work for Client Involved in ‘Ponzi-Like’ Scheme
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The case was brought by investors in Aequitas Securities, which unraveled in early 2016 when the Securities and Exchange Commission said the once high-flying investment management firm was operating “in a Ponzi-like fashion.”
The Gig Is Over for Texas Judge Convicted of Taking Lawyer’s Bribes
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Rodolfo “Rudy” Delgado, 65, of Edinburg, resigned from the 93rd District Court in Hidalgo County after a federal grand jury returned a six-count indictment in 2018.
