Sentences with phrase «against law firm for»

Obtained six - figure settlement on behalf of national lobbying firm against law firm for legal malpractice in Federal Court and mediation.

LPOs are vigorously competing against law firms for legal work.

Not exact matches

David Sanford, chairman of Sanford Heisler Sharp, the law firm that argued the largest - ever employment gender discrimination case to go to trial — a class action suit against Novartis Pharmaceuticals that resulted in a $ 253 million jury award for plaintiffs in 2010, reduced post-trial to $ 175 million — noted that in that case, the company had just three investigators for a workforce of thousands.

Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro, a consumer rights action law firm that also represented consumers in a recent $ 400 million lawsuit against Apple (aapl) for price fixing, filed the New York lawsuit.

A law firm filed a class - action suit against Groupon for allegedly imposing illegal expiration dates on its vouchers.

Hagens Berman is one of the most successful auto litigation law firms in the U.S. and is presently leading nationwide cases against Volkswagen, GM, Mercedes and Fiat Chrysler for use of diesel emissions - cheating software.

That is to say that there is no firm evidence whatever against, and an immense amount of evidence for, the view that the «ordinary» laws of physics and chemistry hold within the organism just as they do within a man - made machine.

The suit was filed Wednesday in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia for the college by the Becket Fund, the same law firm that is representing multiple lawsuits against the HHS policy.

It has been a hallmark of genuine natural law theories that through rational reflection on human nature they arrive at the precise place where Scripture reports a firm commandment (against killing the innocent, for example, or violating marriage vows).

In June»98 a U.S. District Court in Maryland threw out the suit in summary judgment, ordering Antonious to pay Spalding's court costs and issuing a $ 30,000 sanction against Stroup's law firm, Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, for failing to do an adequate prefiling investigation of Antonious's claims.

A law firm has asked for the records related to that research on ammoniated beef, but BPI has filed a lawsuit seeking a court order against the university to prevent the records from being released.

«I hope that my lawsuit against Chartwells and the settlement announced today will help improve the food programs for D.C.'s school children, which has always been my goal,» Mills said in a statement issued Friday by Phillips & Cohen, a District - based law firm that filed Mills's whistleblower lawsuit in 2013.

For him, «History may well mock those who expected that an NPP government, led by the paragon of the rule of law, will take firm action against criminal elements who were recruited by the NPP to foment violence as part of the push for powFor him, «History may well mock those who expected that an NPP government, led by the paragon of the rule of law, will take firm action against criminal elements who were recruited by the NPP to foment violence as part of the push for powfor power.

«Other stand - out recommendations include a bill designed to address the exploitation of our tax laws and exploitation of Nigerians by multinational firms by Femi Obagun, and a brief policy for more stringent laws against rapists, a Workers Protection Act, an Alternate Financing to Economic Growth Act, a Policing and State Security Act, and a Government Transparency and Anti Corruption Act.

The Staten Island congressman who was the Election Day winner for another term against Democrat Mark Murphy, has incurred $ 677,966 in legal fees from the Washington, D.C. - based law firm Patton Boggs.

In coming days, prosecutors are expected to call witnesses tied to additional charges against Silver: That he profited from legal work sent to a second law firm in Manhattan by mega-landlord Glenwood Management and another real estate developer in return for the politician's alleged backing of real estate legislation.

They insist that Mario Cuomo got more done than he is often remembered for: holding firm against the death penalty, protecting the safety net in the era of selfishness, and, yes, even passing mundane reforms like a seat - belt law.

Weitz & Luxenberg joined other law firms that employ lawmakers in fighting against subpoenas from the now - defunct Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption that sought records of what legislators — including the speaker — were doing for their outside earnings.

One of the accusations against Silver is that he, in Bharara's term, «monetized» his public office for private gain by steering clients to Weitz & Luxenberg, the law firm that has long paid Silver a salary to be mysteriously «of counsel.»

On Wednesday and Thursday, defense attorneys hammered Howe for his years of misdeeds, including for embezzlement committed against his former employers, the Albany - based law and legal firm Whiteman Osterman & Hanna, to stiffing a long list of creditors ranging from lawyers and home contractors to a health club and even his family's dog walker.

As the criminal complaint against Silver alleges, he used his authority to disburse HCRA grants to enrich himself, directing hundreds of thousands of dollars to renowned Columbia University physician Dr. Robert Taub for the completion of a center to study mesothelioma, a rare cancer that can be caused by asbestos exposure, in exchange for Taub's agreement to direct clients with cancer to Silver's law firm Weitz & Luxenberg, which specializes in lucrative asbestos lawsuits.

The Joint Commission on Public Ethics settled its case against Fred Hiffa, formerly of Ostroff, Hiffa, & Associates, Inc., following allegations that he had violated the state's lobbying gift ban in 2006 by hiring Matthew Libous in 2006, retaining the Binghamton lawmaker's son for $ 4,166 a month for one year to a Westchester County - based law firm.

Multiple state public authorities hired law firm Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP to represent them amid a Manhattan U.S. Attorney's investigation that led to corruption charges against a former top Cuomo aide and seven other individuals, according to an engagement letter for a separate contract obtained Tuesday by The Alt through a Freedom of Information Law requelaw firm Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP to represent them amid a Manhattan U.S. Attorney's investigation that led to corruption charges against a former top Cuomo aide and seven other individuals, according to an engagement letter for a separate contract obtained Tuesday by The Alt through a Freedom of Information Law requeLaw request.

Important to the case against Silver are referral fees he received for sending a developer to a law firm.

Elizabeth Smith of the South Carolina - based Motley Rice law firm speaks about a lawsuit against pharmaceutical companies for their alleged role in the opioid epidemic.

The donation came months after Coffey's then - law firm, Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossman, was hired by Petro for a class action pension lawsuit against Freddie Mac.

As former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani rails against Black Lives Matter, his law firm reaps tens of thousands of dollars lobbying Congress for the biggest operator of private prisons in America.

Earlier this year, the city's major police unions called for Emery's dismissal over his private law firm's role in a suit against the city on behalf of a former CCRB plaintiff.

However, none of the charges U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara has leveled against the two men pertain to campaign donations, though Mr. Silver stands accused of pressuring Glenwood into hiring a law firm that paid him legal fees while Mr. Skelos faces allegations that he used his position to obtain a sinecure for his son at a company Glenwood held stock in.

The problem isn't the arrest itself or the charges levied against the speaker, who for years has accumulated wealth through private law firms in New York City.

The feds also accuse Dean Skelos of misrepresenting the kind of work he did for his law firm, and say they plan to use that against him at trial if he testifies in his own defense or tries to call character witnesses.

Maffei, who recently took a job as a senior adviser for the law firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, has said he's still mulling a re-match against Buerkle in 2012.

ALBANY — Democrat Dave Denenberg has withdrawn from the race for State Senate in the wake of a lawsuit filed against him by his former law firm, Newsday is reporting.

The doctor at the center of the corruption charges against former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver «disapproved» of him and his law firm and referred cancer patients there only as long as Silver was funneling him state money for research, new court papers claim.

But Tory backbencher Stewart Jackson blasted her for accepting a # 14,500 donation from law firm Leigh Day, which pursued claims against British troops.

Criticism was directed at Appleby, the offshore law firm at the heart of the Paradise Papers, for bringing legal action against the Guardian and the BBC over their reporting.

Seaman is represented by a North Carolina law firm and also by Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein (no relation to this reporter), the San Francisco - based legal powerhouse that won a $ 415 million settlement against tech giants Google, Apple, Intel, and Adobe for colluding to keep wages down by not hiring each other's workers.

Israel has spent much of his life helping the poor and troubled, but he learns his new law firm's dark history goes against what he stands for.

Last week, district officials filed a malpractice suit against the law firm and turned over related investigative files to four agencies for review: the city attorney, the Los Angeles County...

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer BewareIn April, the law firm of Giskan Solotaroff Anderson & Stewart filed a class action lawsuit against Author Solutions Inc. and its parent, Penguin Group, on behalf of three plaintiffs, alleging breach of c... -LSB-...]

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware On June 11 of this year, a class action lawsuit was filed against PublishAmerica by a Baltimore, MD law firm, in association with high - profile litigators Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro.

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer BewareIn April 2013, the law firm of Giskan Solotaroff Anderson & Stewart filed a class action lawsuit against Author Solutions, Inc. (ASI).

News came out this week that Hagens Berman, the same Seattle - based law firm that initiated the class action lawsuits against Apple for its role in the anti-trust violations and price fixing collusion with the now - Big Five publishers, has filed a suit against Google, alleging anti-trust violations that led the search... [Read more...]

Class - action law firm Hagens Berman's seeking more plaintiffs for its lawsuit against Apple and five publishers over illegal ebook price - fixing.

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer BewareA class action lawsuit against Author Solutions Inc. has been settled and discontinued.Filed in April 2013 by law firm Giskan Solotaroff Anderson & Stewart, LLP against ASI and its parent company, Penguin... -LSB-...]

Anthony Merchant of Merchant Law in Saskatchewan, whose firm is working on a class action suit against Loblaw, recommends that those who've applied for a gift card and get the letter, should only send in a utility bill — never a driver's license «which is close to gold» for fraudsters.

Lawyer Anthony Merchant of Merchant Law, whose firm is also working on a class action suit against Loblaw, recommends that Canadians register for both the gift card and class action lawsuit.

Beware: Some debt settlement firms will ask for upfront fees before settling any debts, a practice that is against the law.

To guard against this, it is important for you to forge a reliable relationship with a law firm who can offer you professional legal representation at trial should you need it in order to protect both you (and your family) and to ensure the continued viability of your practice.

Jeffrey Holmstead, a Bush administration EPA official who now works for the Bracewell law firm, said he thought critics might be over-interpreting the Perry memo as a slam against renewables.