Class Action
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Plaintiffs Firms, Privacy, Technology
Stealthy Cybersecurity Threats: A Conversation With The Superfish Class Action Lawyers
What is "Superfish," and why should you be worried about it? Technology columnist Jeff Bennion explains. -
Technology
Court Allows Financial Institutions To Proceed With Data Breach Class Action Against Target
On December 2, 2014, a U.S. District Court in Minnesota ruled that a group of banks and other financial institutions could proceed with a class action against large national retailer Target arising from the data breach Target sustained from a computer hacking... - Sponsored
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Non-Sequiturs, Police, Religion, Sex, Sexual Harassment, Ted Frank
Non-Sequiturs: 11.05.14
* A cautionary tale about using online dating to cheat on your spouse — you might end up upwards of $54K poorer. [Legal Cheek] * Alabama wasted time and energy passing a ballot measure for the purely symbolic purpose of reaffirming Xenophobia? Shocking! [The Volokh Conspiracy / Washington Post] * Interesting tale of reporting a female boss for sexual harassment. [Vice] * When the police inevitably come down on you, turn off your iPhones first. [Versus Texas] * 6 Hilarious Trials That Prove the Legal System Is Screwed. [Cracked] * CCAF is hiring. Good pay, flexible hours. Sounds like a great gig if you hate plaintiffs’ firms. [Center for Class Action Fairness] * Should Jewish judges recuse themselves in Palestinian terrorism cases? Um. No? [Tablet Magazine] * Jameis Winston’s lawyer is just the worst. [Jezebel]
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Art, Lawyerly Lairs, Melvyn Weiss, Milberg Weiss, Money, Plaintiffs Firms, Real Estate
Lawyerly Lairs: From A Big House To The Big House And Back Again -- Mel Weiss's $19 Million Mansion
The former king of securities class actions, now out of federal prison, has put his massive mansion up for sale. -
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7th Circuit, Benchslaps, Litigators, Richard Posner, Ted Frank
More Benchslaps -- But Mild Ones -- From Judge Richard Posner
Judge Posner channels Mr. Spock: "So [your client] is not logical, you're saying." -
Bar Exams, Plaintiffs Firms, Technology
ExamSoft Sued In Illinois
Our first look at an actual complaint filed against ExamSoft. -
Bar Exams, Plaintiffs Firms, Technology
The Inevitable Trawling For ExamSoft Class Action Participants Has Begun!
Things are going to continue getting worse for ExamSoft for a while. - Sponsored
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Bloomberg
Multi-Million Dollar Lawsuit Over Toilet Flushing
A legal battle brews over what you flush down the toilet. -
Drinking, Food, Law Schools, Litigators, Pro Se Litigants
Muscle Milk + Pro Se Litigant = Hilarity
Muscle Milk + Pro Se Litigant = Hilarity. -
Quote of the Day, Screw-Ups
Gas Company Forgot To Check The Law Before Threatening Customers
Litigation strategy goes poof. -
Labor / Employment, Plaintiffs Firms, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
Greatest Risk For Workplace Lawsuits In 2014 Remains 'Doing Illegal Stuff'
Businesses are told that plaintiff lawyers are out to get them. In reality, businesses need to do more to stay out of trouble in the first place. -
9th Circuit, Alex Kozinski, Cars, Quote of the Day
Chief Judge Kozinski: His Honor Objects!
Welcome to what one legal journalist describes as a "lawyer's nightmare."
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iPhone, Movies, Technology
Lawyer Suing Apple Is Banking On Millions of People Being As Stupid As He Was
This class action lawsuit rests on the theory that iTunes is too difficult to figure out. -
Antonin Scalia, Constitutional Law, Elena Kagan, Guns / Firearms, John Roberts, Prostitution, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
The Supreme Court Provides Aid To Disaffected Teenagers And Groups Working With Prostitutes
Today the Supreme Court issued three opinions. Listen up if you're a disaffected teenager, a felon with a gun, or someone who has signed an arbitration agreement. -
2nd Circuit, Billable Hours, Blog Wars, Blogging, Books, Citigroup, Holidays and Seasons, Judge of the Day, Law Schools, Non-Sequiturs, Securities Law, Sex, Sex Scandals, State Judges, State Judges Are Clowns, Wall Street
Non-Sequiturs: 03.29.13
* To those of you who celebrate it, Happy Easter! Welcome the holiday by voting in the ABA Journal’s fifth annual “Peeps in Law” contest. [ABA Journal] * If law firm brackets aren’t your thing, check out Professor Kyle Graham’s brackets for (1) law school classes and (2) law blogs. I’m thankful for ATL’s #1 seed but terrified by who we’re up against (because they’ve ripped me a new one before). [noncuratlex] * Sorry, Judge Steiner, you wuz robbed; you should have been our Judge of the Day. It’s tough to top “allegations of a sexual quid pro quo with a female lawyer and the eye-opening confiscation of carpet from [chambers] for forensic analysis.” [OC Weekly] William Shatner * “William Shatner’s Seductive Powers Don’t Create a Fiduciary Duty.” Robyn Hagan Cain explains why. [U.S. Second Circuit / FindLaw] * Citi settles securities cases for $730 million. Matt Levine is not impressed. [Dealbreaker] * And Ted Frank is incensed by Bernstein Litowitz’s nine-figure fee request. [Point of Law] * If you’re already depressed by public ignorance about the Supreme Court, don’t look at the responses to question 9 of this opinion poll. [Penn Schoen Berland] * Steven Harper — author of a new (and very good) book about the legal profession, The Lawyer Bubble (affiliate link) — offers thoughts on the billable hour in the wake of the DLA Piper overbilling allegations. [New York Times] -
Adoption, B for Beauty, Depositions, Hair, Law Schools, Morning Docket, Ted Frank
Morning Docket: 03.29.13
* The latest update on the law school litigation front represents good news for New York Law School. [National Law Journal]
* Should summarizing a one-day deposition transcript really cost $90,000? Even DLA Piper might blush at such a bill. [Point of Law]
* Ropes & Gray isn’t backing down in the discrimination lawsuit brought by former partner Patricia Martone. (We’ll have more on this later.) [Am Law Daily]
* No, silly polo mogul, you can’t adopt your 42-year-old girlfriend to shield your fortune from litigation. [ABA Journal]
* Replacing “barbers” with “beauty culturists”? This is Indiana and not California, right? [WSJ Law Blog]
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Law Schools, Plaintiffs Firms
BREAKING: Dismissal of Class Action Suit Against New York Law School Is Affirmed
An appellate court affirmed the dismissal of the suit against New York Law School over its allegedly fraudulent employment statistics. -
Biglaw, Gender, Lawsuit of the Day, Sexism, Women's Issues
This $200 Million Class Action Case Claims Women Are Being Elbowed Out By The Greenberg Traurig 'Boys Club'
Would you want to work at a law firm where women are allegedly encouraged to have intimate relationships with firm leaders in order to be promoted? We didn't think so. -
Airplanes / Aviation, Allen & Overy, Biglaw, Bonuses, Books, Deaths, Dewey & LeBoeuf, Jeffrey Toobin, Money, Morning Docket, SCOTUS, Securities Law, Supreme Court
Morning Docket: 10.01.12
* Bank of America agreed to pay $2.43 billion, one of the biggest securities class-action settlements in history, to put the Merrill Lynch mess behind it. According to Professors Peter Henning and Steven Davidoff, B of A “is probably quite happy with the settlement given that it could have potentially faced billions of dollars more in liability in the case.” [DealBook / New York Times]
* “Oyez! Oyez! All persons having business before the Honorable, the Supreme Court of the United States, are admonished to draw near and give their attention, for the Court is now sitting.” Here is Robert Barnes’s take on the SCOTUS Term that starts today. [Washington Post]
* And here is Professor Garrett Epps’s review of Jeffrey Toobin’s new book on the Supreme Court, The Oath (affiliate link). [New York Times]
* How Dewey justify paying a big bonus to a member of the management team “when it has been widely pointed out that excessive compensation to the firm’s upper management significantly contributed to the firm’s collapse in the first place?” [Bankruptcy Beat via WSJ Law Blog]
* A high-profile Vatican trial raises these questions: “‘Did the butler do it?’ Or rather, ‘was it only the butler who did it?’” [Christian Science Monitor]
* Ben Ogden, an Allen & Overy associate who was killed in a Nepalese plane crash, R.I.P. [Am Law Daily]