Biglaw Firm And Client Agree To $73 Million Settlement Over Asbestos Claims
Closure on this case has been a long time coming.
Did This Asbestos Litigation Firm Steal a Competitor’s Client Files?
Last week, a former attorney at a major asbestos plaintiff's firm sued his former colleagues. Joseph C. Maher II made some pretty intense allegations of lawyerly espionage that one blogger called a combination of the “lawyering skullduggery of The Firm with the medical malpractice aspects of The King of Torts."
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Judge-Ordered Remedial Civility Classes = The New Killing It
Last week, we reported on the most recent benchslap from Judge Sam Sparks. In his order, Judge Sparks invited attorneys to a “kindergarten party." Other judges have apparently taken notice. Now comes Judge Peggy Ableman of Delaware. She has called for attorneys appearing before her to attend "a 'special' emergency refresher course in first year ethics and civility." What's really going to make the allegedly childlike attorneys squeal is that Judge Ableman scheduled her remedial class during the middle of Labor Day weekend....