Plaintiffs in four class actions filed in the Central District of California alleged that Live Nation and its subsidiary Ticketmaster failed to protect users’ private information after a cyberattack.        

This week: Dean Omar, the same Dallas plaintiffs’ firm that won a $45 million mesothelioma talc verdict less than two months ago, scored a $260 million jury award on Monday.        

Law.com is accepting nominations for the New England Legal Awards, celebrating legal excellence in Connecticut, Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Rhode Island.        

“There’s a tendency to treat crypto and meme coins as a joke where they don’t need to be taken seriously,” said Joe Delich, a partner at Freedman Normand. “But they’re a real product.”        

Creating an engaging workplace is not just nice-to-have; it directly impacts the bottom line. Engaged team members are more productive, deliver higher-quality work, have better retention rates, and foster a culture of continuous improvement and innovation.        

“This (would not be a) ruling on the substance of plaintiffs’ claims,” Tiseme Zegeye of Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, one of the attorneys for the plaintiffs, said. “This is determining where the lawsuits will play out. … It’s the first step in figuring out where these cases move forward and how they’re going to […]

“Each and every time a major competitor has developed and/or released a product that competes in the smart ring market, Oura has filed a patent infringement action against that competitor,” according to Samsung’s complaint.        

LegalZoom allegedly engages in the unauthorized practice of law because it does not fit the statutory definition of a professional service corporation and because its owners include nonlawyers, according to the complaint.        

The Oregon jury’s verdict, which included $200 million in punitive damages, followed a month of trial in a case brought by Kyung Lee, diagnosed with mesothelioma after decades of being exposed to Johnson & Johnson’s baby powder.        

In a proposal he said “many will reflexively condemn as heresy,” Judge Kevin Newsom suggests that those who follow an “ordinary meaning” approach to law should consider how AI-powered LLMs like ChatGPT can “inform the interpretive analysis.”