Sentences with phrase «new litigation counsel»

If the client does nonetheless file in court, the attorney must withdraw, and the client must retain new litigation counsel.

This formal agreement aligns the attorneys» goals with the clients» goals; the lawyers must withdraw if the parties are unable to reach an agreement, and the parties then may retain new litigation counsel.

In the event the case does not settle, the collaborative attorneys are required to withdraw from the case and the clients choose new litigation counsel.

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Private counsel for Massachusetts and New Hampshire in groundbreaking litigation against the tobacco industry (Significant injunctive relief and recovery of more than $ 10 billion)

The lead counsel for the 1,000 plaintiffs in the new round of Love Canal litigation has asked state Supreme Court Justice Richard Kloch Sr. to remove himself from the case, claiming he showed bias in remarks about past Love Canal cases in a newspaper article written by Kloch's daughter, and seemed to act a little too favorably to the local attorney for Occidental Chemical Co. during a past court session.

A Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation named New Orleans attorney Dawn Barrios to be Lead Counsel and Richard Arsenault as Liaison Counsel in the case.

The ruling heightens the risk, particularly for credit counseling agencies doing business in the First Circuit (encompassing Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Puerto Rico, and Rhode Island), that their activities, especially their DMPs and less - than - full balance repayment programs, may trigger coverage under CROA and give rise to class action litigation, forcing them — at great expense — to prove that they are actually operating as bona fide nonprofit organizations (in order to be exempt from CROA, particularly for what has transpired in the past), or, alternatively, to comply with CROA's requirements prospectively.

In addition to overseeing Sierra Club's climate docket, he represented the environmental community (including as trial counsel) in the thicket of litigation over California's greenhouse gas vehicle standards, and brought In re Deseret Power, which effectively imposed a moratorium on new coal - fired power plants.

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Posts cover breaking news about large law firm mergers, significant partner moves and leadership changes, law firm bankruptcies, insights into how technology is changing the delivery of legal services, how in - house counsel are approaching their work and the ways in which litigation and new regulations are changing the legal business landscape.

The announcement goes on to say that three ALM publications will remain free for unlimited reading online — Corporate Counsel, Law Technology News and The Asian Lawyer — while content from four «premium» publications — Supreme Court Brief, Litigation Daily, New Jersey Law Journal Decision Alert and Delaware Business Court Insider — will continue to be accessible only to paid subscribers.

Bridie offers pragmatic and tailored advice on all aspects of litigation strategy and has appeared in the New Zealand Court of Appeal, High Court and District Court as sole and junior counsel.

For dependable counsel about business litigation and alternative dispute resolution in northern New Jersey, contact an experienced civil trial lawyer at Breslin & Breslin in Hackensack.

Mr. Miklave, Ms. Glynn, Ms. Torchio, and Mr. Clarke - Fisher, all resident in the New York City office, provide employment litigation services and counsel clients on various employment law matters.

As an attorney with the New York litigation firm of Whitman Breed Abbott & Morgan (1990 - 2000), Mr. Scagnelli handled intellectual property counseling work and litigation for industrial clients, including Pharmaceutical Formulations, Inc. in Edison, New Jersey, then the second largest private label pharmaceutical company in the United States.

See, In - House Counsel Should Make Outside Litigation Counsel Feel Safe and 7 Reasons In - House Counsel Should Want a Mock Trial and Introducing a New Litigation Consulting Service: the Micro-Mock ™.

General counsel are adding new blood by replacing existing litigation firms with new firms that help them manage their increasing caseload while spending the same or less money as in prior years.

The new attorneys enjoy an accomplished reputation for providing respected and effective counsel in complex, high - stakes litigation, including commercial litigation, consumer class actions, and other sophisticated mass torts.

For example, if counsel is unaware of the recycling of backup tapes, this may pose as a potential problem if the IT department continues to rewrite these backup tapes with new data, consequently destroying old data that may be relevant during litigation.

One example is the new Litigation Profile Suite, which purports to be a one - stop shop for searching critical information about the key players in a case, including expert witnesses, judges and opposing counsel.

The Royal Bank of Canada's new general counsel is the former director of litigation at Bank of America and most recently a partner at global firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, based in New Yonew general counsel is the former director of litigation at Bank of America and most recently a partner at global firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, based in New YoNew York.

Author: Sanford Hausler is of counsel at Cox Padmore Skolnik & Shakarchy in New York City, focusing on civil litigation and appeals.

Represented a large private equity group as bankruptcy litigation counsel in dispute alleging fraudulent / preferential transfers in major Chapter 11 filing in Southern District of New York.

EDWIN STERN, a former New Jersey appellate division judge who earlier this year completed a temporary assignment on the New Jersey Supreme Court, is now counsel at Gibbons in the firm's business and commercial litigation department.

When David Howard, Microsoft's deputy general counsel for litigation, posted a blog on LinkedIn about his company's new plan for choosing, working and compensating its regular outside counsel, his central message was clear: bye - bye billable hour.

Southfield, Mich. - Brooks Kushman Shareholder and Co-Chair of Litigation Marc Lorelli will serve on a panel at the ACC Corporate Counsel University (CCU) on Thursday, June 15, 2017 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

She regularly serves as national coordinating counsel and New York / New Jersey local counsel defending clients in mass tort litigation and class actions involving FDA and EPA regulated products.

«Patent case filings generally were higher in the first five months of 2015 than in the last eight months of 2014,» according to Lisa Shuchman writing for Corporate Counsel in an article titled, New Data Shows Patent Litigation Filings Up in 2015.

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«With our new report, firms and general counsels can see who has backed up their reputation with real success in litigation.»

More often than not, the global general counsel and heads of litigation are based there, whether that's in New York, Chicago or Los Angeles, so you need to be there,» says Clyde & Co senior partner Simon Konsta.

Given the new Apology Act in Ontario, corporate counsel should look to campaigns like this one by Taco Bell as a better way to handle reputation management and engage the public over contentious litigation.

As a result of his experience involving the medical aspects of asbestos health litigation, Art has served, for many years, as joint medical defense counsel for various defendants in the New York City asbestos litigation cases.

Jamie has worked for several leading financial institutions, including UBS in New York, where, as Executive Director and Global eDiscovery Counsel, she was responsible for designing, implementing, and managing a centralized litigation and investigations response program to support the firm's litigation and investigation matters worldwide.

Clients rely on our antitrust lawyers for constructive counseling and guidance on legitimate arrangements between competitors, entry into new markets, product distribution systems and appropriate participation by clients at trade associations and standard - setting organizations, as well as to steer them through complex civil, criminal, and merger investigations and litigation.

Therium Inc. in New York is led by Chief Executive Eric Blinderman, who joined from Proskauer Rose LLP where he was International Litigation Counsel.

For example, 57 percent of companies with significant litigation in 2015 (at least one matter with a minimum of $ 100k in outside counsel fees) brought in a new law firm.

Finally, in 2010 he was appointed to be Co-Liaison Counsel for the Yaz, Yasmin and Ocella litigation by the New Jersey Superior Court.

Arla has previously worked in general and commercial litigation in New Zealand, including appearing as junior and sole counsel in tribunals and superior courts in New Zealand.

Carey Olsen has appointed Michael McAuley as a new counsel to its litigation department in Guernsey.

Our newest team member joined our group in February and practicing as senior criminal defence and civil litigation counsel.

The Weil team advising Advent International and MORSCO, Inc. is led by Private Equity partner Marilyn French Shaw and includes Private Equity associates Jacqueline Smith, Emi Suzuki and Ravenna Neville; Banking & Finance partner Benton Lewis; Technology & IP Transactions partner Jeffrey Osterman; Tax partner Marc Silberberg; Executive Compensation & Benefits partner Amy Rubin; Environmental Head Annemargaret Connolly; Cybersecurity, Data Privacy & Information Management Co-Head Randi Singer; Environmental counsel Matthew Morton; Antitrust counsel Vadim Brusser; Technology & IP Transactions associate Mary Lentowski; Tax associates Eric Remijan and Michael Rivkin; Executive Compensation & Benefits associate Jennifer Britz; and Litigation associates Olivia Greer, Jonathan Gartner and Samantha Caesar (Not Yet Admitted in New York).

The litigation team included counsel Lynn Earl Busath and associates James W. Haldin, Douglas K. Yatter, Willow D. Crystal, Candy M. Lawson, Antonio J. Perez - Marques, Christopher A. Botsman, John D. Couriel, Tatiana R. Martins, Ronja Bandyopadhyay, Una A. Dean, Nahal Kazemi, Elena Ivanovski, Chiawen C. Kiew, Boris Ayala, Jason McCullough, Christian M. Moser, Alexis G. Stone and Emmet P. Ong, all from the New York office, and associate Bethany K. Hipp from the Washington, DC, office.

On a given day, an HR generalist might meet with employees to provide guidance on compensation and benefits, organize training for new hires, meet with legal counsel on an employment litigation issue, and give advice to senior managers on -LSB-...]

He currently serves as co-lead counsel in the In re: Gadolinium Based Contrast Agent Litigation, which is pending in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio; the Plaintiff's Executive Committee in the In re: Abilify Products Liability Litigation pending in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida; the Plaintiff's Executive Committee in the In re: Benicar Products Liability Litigation pending in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey; the Plaintiff's Steering Committee in the In re: Actos (Pioglitazone) Products Liability Litigation pending in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana; and the Plaintiff's Steering Committee in the In re: Fresenius Granuflo / Naturalyte Dialysate Products Liability Litigation pending in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts.

Following its acquisition of cloud - based litigation management platform Allegory, Integreon today (28 February) unveiled a new evidence management dashboard for its Allegory users, empowering inside and outside counsel to work in a collaborative environment with the ability to analyse all of the case information for a matter or across matters on a single platform and in context.

Prior to joining Shutts & Bowen, Michael served as outside counsel to a Fortune 100 media and entertainment company, handled contractual matters related to the development of new theme park attractions, and also represented clients involved in complex product liability litigation.

Lead counsel for manufacturer in litigation with distributor over the location of new distributor

Given the amount of trial experience that we have and our exposure to a variety of litigators, corporate counsel and litigation support staff, our litigation consultants are among the first to learn new styles and new techniques in the courtroom.

Mr. Brown has practiced throughout the state of New York in the area of civil litigation and employment law, and has provided general business counsel to individuals and businesses of all sizes.