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Professional negligence claims brought against law firms in the High Court have almost tripled in the last year, jumping to 418 in 2013/14, according to City law firm RPC.

Not exact matches

The next day that firm filed two lawsuits against Diageo, one in federal court, raising a suite of traditional trademark and unfair business practices claims, but the other in New York State Supreme Court, seeking a permanent injunction under a seldom - used statute available only to charitable organizations, known as Section 135 of the New York General Business Law.

Paul Weiss is the same corporate law firm that conducted last year's internal investigation into sexual harassment allegations against Roger Ailes, which resulted in the former Fox News chairman's resignation.

«Though the vast majority of Americans think it is wrong and should be against the law, [most state] laws do not protect the LGBT workforce from this kind of discrimination,» Peter Romer - Friedman, an attorney with Cohen Milstein, a law - firm in Washington, D.C., says.

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.

Index funds are one of a number of issues in a 401 (k) lawsuit against Anthem, Inc. brought by the St. Louis law firm of Schlichter, Bogard & Denton, the big kahuna in the world of 401 (k) plan litigation, this January.

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.

RYE, NEW HAMPSHIRE, U.S.A., Monday, Feb. 8, 1999 — The Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee has formally incorporated itself in Delaware and has begun negotiating with law firms interested in undertaking its lawsuit against the Wall Street investment houses it accuses of illegal collusion to control the price and supply of gold, other commodities, and certain related financial securities.

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.

Thankfully, in the U.S., we have a strong wall of separation between church and state (mostly top the credit of JM & TJ); and thankfully, the more the religious extremists push against the wall, the more the wall stands firm, the more the law is considered and more and more it is applied throughout civic law.

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 claimIn 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 claimin 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 claimin 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.

Last summer, his law firm represented First American Bank of Buffalo Grove in a nuisance suit filed against car dealer Joseph Perillo, who leased vacant property he owned near the bank to a pig farmer.

«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.

What are we seeing in our country today?It is no secret that plans are being made in right wing think tanks and some law firms, within the elephants media and among Npp leaders to bring back to life the 18th century notion that the heavenly prescribed duty of the opposition is to obstruct government business and to incite the public against the establishment.

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 legislatioIn 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 legislatioin Manhattan by mega-landlord Glenwood Management and another real estate developer in return for the politician's alleged backing of real estate legislatioin 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.

Nader's lawsuit against the Federal Election Commission, over the FEC's refusal to even ask various state Democratic Parties and various law firms to respond to his complaint will be argued on January 14, 2013, in the U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit.

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.

DO N'T put the arm on major real estate developer Glenwood Management — in the midst of negotiations affecting the company's profits — to hire a law firm that's secretly paying you kickbacks (which is one of Bharara's charges against former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver).

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.»

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.

While the complaint against Silver does not detail his interactions with Glenwood during these months, it does allege that he had already developed financial relations with the company: «In or about 2011... the Real Estate Law Firm represented approximately 19 properties owned by [Glenwood] and Developer - 2, constituting less than one percent of all properties represented by the firm that year, yet these 19 buildings contributed more than 31 percent of all revenue obtained by the Real Estate Law Firm that year.&raFirm represented approximately 19 properties owned by [Glenwood] and Developer - 2, constituting less than one percent of all properties represented by the firm that year, yet these 19 buildings contributed more than 31 percent of all revenue obtained by the Real Estate Law Firm that year.&rafirm that year, yet these 19 buildings contributed more than 31 percent of all revenue obtained by the Real Estate Law Firm that year.&raFirm that year.»

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.

«Details of the specific charges against Silver were unclear on Wednesday night, but one of the people with knowledge of the matter said they stemmed from payments Mr. Silver received from a small law firm that specializes in seeking reductions of New York City real estate taxes,» the Times reported.

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.

«These proposals will be a real boost to law - abiding drivers in the continuing fight against rogue parking firms.

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.

The complaint against Silver does not directly name the real estate law firm he allegedly used in a scheme to get some $ 700,000 in «bribes and kickbacks» from developers with business before the state.

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.

In a statement to the Daily News Monday, the law firm stated, «We are deeply saddened that we have had to file court papers today against a former partner, David Denenberg.

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.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman filed a lawsuit against two law firms Wednesday, alleging they duped 2,700 homeowners out of hundreds of dollars a month in specious legal services.

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.

An environmental law firm has filed a class - action suit against two companies connected with the water contamination in the Rensselaer County village of Hoosick Falls.

State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli just announced he has hired the law firm of Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll to represent the state pension fund in a class action against the oil giant BP in connection with the «disastrous» Deepwater Horizon explosion and subsequent oil spill in the GulF of Mexico.

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.

Rockland County Sen. David Carlucci, a Democrat who was mentioned in the federal complaint against Queens Sen. Malcolm Smith, paid $ 17,700 to the law firm of Gibson, Dunn, Crutcher, which does white collar criminal defense work.

The county restarted foreclosure actions against suburban properties in 2012 by hiring an outside law firm to do that work.

ALBANY — The federal corruption case against Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver rests in part on his alleged scheme with a doctor who referred asbestos cases to the Weitz & Luxenberg law firm where Silver is of counsel.

DiNapoli recently announced he had hired the law firm of Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll to represent the state pension fund in a class action lawsuit against the oil giant BP in connection with the «disastrous» Deepwater Horizon explosion and subsequent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Litwin has not been charged with any wrongdoing in relation to the speaker's law firm, though he appears to be the individual identified in the federal complaint against Silver as «Developer - 1.»

Glenwood appeared in the case against former Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver, who allegedly directed the company to a law firm that paid his fees and is now under federal scrutiny.

* Update, 31 October, 4:29 p.m.: In response to this study, BP has issued a statement noting that the research was funded by The Murray Firm and Cossich, Sumich, Parsiola & Taylor LLC, two law firms representing clients with environmental impact claims against BP.

In «Fargo,» Thornton's character was pure evil, but in Goliath he's just flawed — despicable at times, but with a good heart that shows often as he pursues justice against his old law firm and partneIn «Fargo,» Thornton's character was pure evil, but in Goliath he's just flawed — despicable at times, but with a good heart that shows often as he pursues justice against his old law firm and partnein Goliath he's just flawed — despicable at times, but with a good heart that shows often as he pursues justice against his old law firm and partner.

Last summer, Socrates attracted nationwide publicity in winning a court case against the Law Society, in which the Law Society was ruled to be illegally abusing its dominance by forcing law firms to buy its own training producLaw Society, in which the Law Society was ruled to be illegally abusing its dominance by forcing law firms to buy its own training producLaw Society was ruled to be illegally abusing its dominance by forcing law firms to buy its own training produclaw firms to buy its own training products.

Following Durand Academy's successful High Court challenge against its Ofsted report, which would have placed the school in special measures if upheld, Luke Green and Joe Orme from law firm Hill Dickinson consider what powers a school has to challenge Ofsted judgements and what should be taken into consideration