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1 week ago | 
law.com | Marianna Wharry
A shift from commoditized products liability work—where much of the science is settled, billing rates are often compressed, and settlement values can be fairly predictable—to more high-stakes, bet-the-company-type litigation, has inspired top firms to take on more work in this space.
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1 week ago | 
law.com | Marianna Wharry
Minnie Holmes says an intoxicated man seated in front of her punched her in the chest. After her daughter took exception, "a Delta employee came over and yelled at Holmes and her daughter, stating, 'You guys need to figure this out,'" a lawsuit alleges.
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1 week ago | 
law.com | Marianna Wharry
Homeowners affected by the Palisades and Eaton wildfires in Los Angeles have sued the United Services Automobile Association (USAA) and American Automobile Association (AAA), contending that the insurance companies committed "systemic" fraud by misrepresenting the extent of their coverage and under-insuring their members by hundreds of thousands of dollars and, in some cases, over $1 million, leaving them unable to afford rebuilding or replacing their homes.
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1 week ago | 
law.com | Marianna Wharry
A shift from commoditized products liability work—where much of the science is settled, billing rates are often compressed, and settlement values can be fairly predictable—to more high-stakes, bet-the-company-type litigation, has inspired top firms to take on more work in this space.
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2 weeks ago | 
law.com | Marianna Wharry
This week, attorneys with Morgan & Morgan filed a wage-and-hour suit in Massachusetts federal court on behalf of employees of home decor and furniture company Wayfair. The class-action complaint alleges that the company requires its employees to perform compensable, off-the-clock tasks both before and after their shifts to avoid overtime compensation. Takeaway: Wage-and-hour lawsuits are nothing new for employers, but other jurisdictions have seen an uptick in claims about performing overtime.
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2 weeks ago | 
law.com | Marianna Wharry
A divided Missouri Supreme Court denied a transgender student's sex discrimination appeal against a Kansas City school district this week, with the majority finding that the student did not prove he was discriminated against based on his male sex. In a 5-2 decision released Tuesday, the majority affirmed Jackson County Circuit Judge Cory L. Atkins's decision to nullify a jury's $4 million award to R.M.A., a transgender male student.
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2 weeks ago | 
law.com | Marianna Wharry
One chance encounter during an orientation meeting at the Baltimore prosecutor’s office over a decade ago served as the foundation for two litigators on opposite ends of the East Coast to score a recent win against a top institution in Boston. Patrick Jennings, partner at The Ment Law Group in Westport, Connecticut, and Michael Turiello, partner at Skeen Law Offices in Charlottesville, Virginia, credit that August 2011 orientation as the beginning of a legal partnership and friendship.
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2 weeks ago | 
law.com | Marianna Wharry
Vague billing entries and mischarging for "non-core legal tasks" were among the reasons a federal judge deducted over $4,000 in attorney fees and costs, according to a federal judge's recent memorandum and order. Timothy Burke and Jared Burke of the Law Offices of Timothy M. Burke in Needham, Massachusetts, were awarded $306,929 for attorney fees and costs Friday for their representation of the plaintiff Dante Difronzo, a detective, in a First Amendment retaliation and tortious interference case.
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3 weeks ago | 
law.com | Marianna Wharry
A federal judge sided with an Illinois information technology company in a breach-of-contract suit Monday after finding that the company's former business partner failed to disclose any basis for the alleged damages over seven years after the initial disclosure. U.S. District Court Judge Thomas M.
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3 weeks ago | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Emily Cousins |Marianna Wharry |Guy DeMarco
Who Got The Work J. Brugh Lower of Gibbons has entered an appearance for industrial equipment supplier Devco Corporation in a pending trademark infringement lawsuit. The suit, accusing the defendant of selling knock-off Graco products, was filed Dec. 18 in New Jersey District Court by Rivkin Radler on behalf of Graco Inc. and Graco Minnesota. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Zahid N. Quraishi, is 3:24-cv-11294, Graco Inc. et al v. Devco Corporation.
