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Jun 14, 2024 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Cedra Mayfield |Lisa Willis |Patrick Smith |Maria Dinzeo
Two Apple employees sued the Big Tech giant in a proposed class action on Thursday, alleging gender-based pay discrimination, biases against women in its performance evaluation system, and a hostile work environment. The complaint, filed by Altshuler Berzon and Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll in the California Superior Court, County of San Francisco, encompasses more than 12,000 current and former female Apple employees in California. Want to continue reading?
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Justin Henry |Thomas Spigolon |Cedra Mayfield |Lisa Willis |Dan Roe
Since Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, law firms and corporate legal departments committed to diversity have faced external and internal pushback against diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, a factor that’s complicated long-term goals of improving retention and promotion of underrepresented attorneys.
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Jun 6, 2024 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Adolfo Pesquera |Lisa Willis
A Houston-based crude oil pipeline company lost a dispute in Mississippi federal court over whether it should pay a crossing fee on two pipelines that run through the state. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Wednesday affirmed the lower court’s dismissal of a lawsuit brought by Mid Valley Pipeline Co. LLC against the Board of Mississippi Levee Commissioners. Want to continue reading?
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May 23, 2024 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Avalon Zoppo |Ellen Bardash |Cedra Mayfield |Lisa Willis
A judicial report was recently released detailing steps that have been taken in the past two years to increase diversity on Delaware’s bench and bar, the bulk of which involve creating a pipeline of future Delaware attorneys through increased access to education and bar admission.
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May 22, 2024 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Cedra Mayfield |Lisa Willis |Patrick Smith |Colleen Murphy
New Jersey attorney Amanda S. Haines has been named the first female executive director of the state’s Election Law Enforcement Commission, following the retirement of the agency’s longtime leader, Jeffrey Brindle. Haines is the sixth person and the first female to lead the ELEC. She began serving on May 4. Brindle retired in October after serving as executive director for 15 years. Joseph Donohue, the agency’s deputy director, served as interim acting executive director.
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May 17, 2024 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Patrick Smith |Cedra Mayfield |Amanda Bronstad |Lisa Willis
In this week’s Legal Speak episode, Florida class action attorneys Jean Martin and John Yanchunis of Morgan & Morgan in Tampa open up about how they have leveraged their nearly 60 years of combined legal experience to help build their firm’s cybersecurity and data privacy practice. Want to continue reading?
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May 17, 2024 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Maria Dinzeo |Brenda Sapino Jeffreys |Cedra Mayfield |Lisa Willis
Sarah Spitalnick, a Baltimore lawyer, is trying to strike a hard bargain with King & Spalding. She filed suit against the law firm earlier this month, alleging it would not consider her for a summer associate diversity fellowship because she was white and heterosexual.
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May 8, 2024 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Amanda Bronstad |Lisa Willis |Cheryl Miller |Colleen Murphy
Cruise, an American self-driving car company backed by General Motors and Honda, was hit with a motor vehicle negligence lawsuit this week for allegedly causing a collision with another driver in San Francisco. This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar, ALM’s source for immediate alerting on just-filed cases in federal and state courts. Law.com Radar now offers state court coverage nationwide.
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May 2, 2024 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Alexander Lugo |Michael Mora |Lisa Willis
An independent communications and research firm released a report that shows nuclear verdicts—judgments over $10 million—against corporate defendants have increased by nearly 30% in the last year, and that state governors have had an outsized role in the results. Phil Singer, CEO of Marathon Strategies, noted Florida had historically been a state with the second largest sum of verdicts, behind Missouri with $4 billion, and ahead of Texas with $3.7 billion and Pennsylvania with $2.7 billion.
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Apr 26, 2024 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Adolfo Pesquera |Alex Anteau |Lisa Willis |Mason Lawlor
In an insurance dispute, the Illinois First District Court of Appeals affirmed a judgment awarding a woman $176,356 after her husband replaced the diamond in her 3.57 carat engagement ring with a synthetic one, finding she was entitled coverage as an “innocent insured.” In an April 22 opinion, authored by Judge Mary Ellen Coghlan, the appellate court affirmed the Cook County Circuit Court’s decision entering a judgment in favor of plaintiff Chrysoula Dana, who filed a complaint against Great...
