The New York law that formed the basis of the cases brought by Jamaica residents Kimberly Facey, an attorney, and Danielle Lawrence, a business student, has been in effect since 2019 but had not previously been tried in the state’s courts.        

A critical hurdle in getting to a just verdict was overcoming the Walker companies’ shell game to use workers compensation insurance as a bar, plaintiffs’ attorney Charla Aldous said.        

“These filings are going up and we are handling a lot of them,” Stephanie A. Sheridan, an executive committee member with Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff, said. “And there are a lot more threat letters that are out there. Without revealing the number, the amount that we are dealing with right now are keeping a […]

John Goggins appeared in federal court in New Jersey Thursday and pleaded guilty to not filing his tax returns for 2018, 2019, 2020 or 2021.        

Many in legal tech are split on if the FTC’s ban on noncompetes will bring massive changes in hiring and talent acquisition, or come up short.        

“Overruling ‘Chevron’ will represent a dramatic decrease in the authority wielded by federal agencies,” write Gary Feldon and Matthew Malinowski of Hollingsworth.        

“A registered nurse may be qualified to attest that breach of applicable standards of nursing care for preventing and treating decubitus ulcers proximately caused the plaintiff’s ulcer injury,” Judge Donald E. Beachley wrote on behalf of the court.        

Michael E. Gertzman was twice elected chair of the litigation practice and served on Paul Weiss’ management and compensation committees.        

“We are pleased that the Appellate Court applied the innocent insured doctrine to the misappropriation exclusion in this hard-fought litigation. We hope that this ruling will protect innocent insureds, like our client, in the future,” said Dana’s attorneys, Joseph Bosco and Costa Diamond of LaRose & Bosco, in Oak Park, Illinois.        

The Boy Scouts of America, which filed for Chapter 11 in the District of Delaware in February 2020 and has since had a reorganization plan confirmed, faced more abuse claims than had been brought in any bankruptcy case before. A new bill in Congress would address such cases.