Sentences with phrase «suits against their firms»

Tiger Brands said it has received notice of two class action suits against the firm, with the total amount claimed against the company estimated at 425 million rand.

After failing to receive a response, DiNapoli filed suit against the firm in Delaware, seeking to examine corporate accounts for contributions to non-profits that do not report their donors.

A female litigation partner at Chadbourne & Parke who last year filed a $ 100m gender discrimination suit against the firm has been expelled from its partnership.

Norton Rose Fulbright merger partner votes to expel litigator who filed $ 100m discrimination suit against firm

From herein out, associates considering suits against their firms and law firms that are the potential subjects need to reconsider how to handle disputes in the aftermath of this kind of coverage.

Bodily Injury and Property Damage Liability (Coverage A) applies to claims or suits against your firm for bodily injury or property damage.

Not exact matches

Yogen Früz and Yogurty's, the frozen yogurt chains founded by brothers Michael and Aaron Serruya, and a related firm called International Franchise Inc., filed a suit in the Federal Court of Canada against Freshii in June.

In April 2016, he filed suit against the CEO and chairman of Acerus Pharmaceuticals, which Melynk co-founded in 2008, alleging that while he was incapacitated by illness in 2015, they ruined the firm.

Cohen said he also filed a second defamation suit against political intelligence firm Fusion GPS, which compiled the dossier, in federal court.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, whose civil rights suit against Weinstein and his company held up the (ultimately doomed) sale of the firm to an investor consortium led by Maria Contreras - Sweet, expressed delight at the news about the NDAs.

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.

A former junior partner at Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers, Pao lost a high - profile gender discrimination suit against the venture capital firm in March.

Whether you look at straight demographic statistics, listen to the testimony in the recent sexual harassment suit against storied VC firm Kleiner Perkins, or talk to female founders about their experiences fundraising, the picture you get of the industry's openness to women isn't the rosiest.

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

Hamburger says these lawsuits mark «the beginning of a trend» that starts with suits against large plan sponsors and large financial services firms — which, in the case of New York Life and Morgan Stanley, are one and the same — then spreads to smaller sponsors and smaller financial firms.

Earlier this month, Minneapolis - based law firm Nichols Kaster filed suits against American Century's $ 600 million plan and the $ 1.3 billion plan at Fujitsu Technology and Business of America, Inc..

This is why what happened last week was so shocking: the venture capital firm Benchmark Capital filed suit against former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick for fraud, break of contract, and breach of fiduciary duty.

When news broke in 2015 of Volkswagen's massive diesel emissions - cheating scandal, Hagens Berman was the first firm in the nation to file suit against the automaker for its egregious fraud, going on to represent thousands of owners in litigation and take a leading role on the Plaintiffs» Steering Committee that would finalize a $ 14.7 billion, record - breaking settlement for owners.

In 2009 she dismissed a $ 1.4 billion suit brought by developer Sheldon Solow against insurer Conseco, in which Solow accused Conseco of bid - rigging when the firm and Trump sold the GM Building to Harry Macklowe in 2003.

Most recently, the firm filed suit against a pharmacy startup that it views as an «unlawful copycat scheme.»

Detroit school students, represented by the Los Angeles - based public interest firm Public Counsel, filed suit last month against the state of Michigan, claiming a legal right to literacy based on the 14th Amendment to the Constitution.

On March 26, a group of New York — based lawyers headed by Edward D. Fagan, who spearheaded successful suits on behalf of Holocaust survivors against European firms that collaborated with the Nazis in using concentration camp inmates as laborers, filed suit in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn against FleetBoston Financial, the insurance giant Aetna, and railroad conglomerate CSX Corporation, on the grounds that these corporations are the successors of companies that profited from slavery before the Civil War.

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.

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.

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.

The Brennan Center, alongside a coalition of law firms, state lawmakers and others on Tuesday announced they had filed a suit against the Board of Elections to end the practice of a network of limited liability companies contributing endless cash to political candidates.

Silver's attorney suggested that Taub's referrals — which were to a number of firms in addition to Weitz — were done in the most altruistic manner, and noted that he'd fought to retain his tenured position at Columbia despite being removed in the wake of Silver's arrest, because — as he said in his suit against the university that brought a temporary injunction against the school — he believed he had done nothing wrong.

The private law firm made the following demands: The interlocutory injunction suit filed against Dr Zanetor Agyeman - Rawlings by incumbent Klottey Korle MP, Nii Armah Ashitey, is «dead on arrival», Dr Rawlings» Lawyer Godwin Tameklo has said.

The firm is mentioned in a pay - to - play suit against Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown.

The county hired six outside law firms to defend against the suit.

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.

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.

The county hired six outside law firms to defend against the suit, which cost more than $ 500,000.

The two firms also filed a similar suit in November against the landlord at Chelsea's London Terrace.

Two Canadian firms said last week that they were bringing a class - action suit against Avid seeking upwards of $ 760M in damages.

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...

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...]

Three Canadian law firms are filing class - action suits against as well, the Toronto Star reports.

Under the proposed settlement, announced Wednesday morning, Penguin would pay $ 75 million to consumers represented by 33 states» attorneys general and by Hagens Berman, the Seattle - based law firm that filed the class action suit against Apple (s AAPL) and publishers in 2011.

And on Thursday, backed by a Chicago - based law firm, Gawronski filed suit (PDF) against Amazon in federal court, seeking class - action status.

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.

Chong Park, a partner at Ropes & Gray law firm, is representing the ABA and the individual plaintiffs in this suit against the USDE.

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.

After speaking with the attorney firm, I was told that century only reached out to them once, in October and then never followed up, so the firm filed suit against me.

There is no doubt that governments try to get changes made to the Reports to suit their political views... In my view this has not succeeded as the scientists have held firm against such changes.

Finally, if fraud claims against firms become more common, lawyers may need to check with their malpractice insurers to determine whether their coverage includes suits for fraud.

Dewey & Leboeuf's New York landlord has filed a suit against 450 of the defunct law firm's former partners, alleging the individuals are liable for more than a million dollars in unpaid rent.

Trump filed a legal malpractice suit against New York's Morrison Cohen last year in Westchester County Supreme Court, claiming the firm treated him like a «cash cow» and performed unnecessary work to generate higher bills.

The article provides an update on the EEOC's age discrimination suit against Sidley on behalf of former firm partners that Legal Blog Watch commented on previously.

This week, the former associate, Kevin M. Plante, won a decision from the Massachusetts Appeals Court reinstating his wrongful - termination lawsuit against the firm, after a trial court judge had dismissed his suit for the reason that it would expose client confidences.