Kurzon Strauss

Morning Docket: 10.25.13

* Trouble in paradise, so soon? The proposed merger between Dentons and McKenna Long & Aldridge has been delayed. McKenna has postponed its partnership vote, and Dentons says no partnership vote was ever planned. [Daily Report] * Wherein a firm fails to Latham an ex-employee’s baby mama drama: a legal secretary who was allegedly told her pregnancy complications “were not [the director of HR's] problem” will see her case against L&W move forward. [Blog of Legal Times] * You know that relations have grown bitter between opposing counsel when attorneys from one firm refer to lawyers from the other as “Monday Morning Quarterbacks.” The legal fee dispute in the BARBRI antitrust case rages on at the Ninth Circuit. [National Law Journal] * Paging ProudCooleyGrad: Kurzon Strauss, the firm that sued Cooley Law over its allegedly deceptive job stats, is trying to get records unsealed in the school’s defamation case that’s now on appeal. [MLive.com] * Convicted murderer and jailhouse hottie Jodi Arias is accepting donations for her appeals fund. It could be worth your while — if you donate enough, maybe she’ll consider turning you into her next victim. [HLN TV]

Cooley Law Forgets That Truth Is A Defense To Defamation

Cooley Law's defamation suit against the firm that sued over its allegedly misleading job stats gets tossed on summary judgment.

Law School Litigation Update: Will New York’s Chief Judge Be Able To Fix The Legal Academy’s ‘Systemic Failure’?

If the ABA won't do anything about the legal academy's "systemic failure," maybe the chief judge of New York's highest court will...

Law School Litigation Update: Kurzon LLP Sues Cooley Law School for Defamation

Cooley Law School gets sued for defamation on Friday the 13th...

Fifteen More Law Schools to Be Hit with Class Action Lawsuits Over Post-Grad Employment Rates

Kurzon Strauss, the law firm that brought us some of the most prolific class action lawsuits of the year has split up. Breaking up is hard to do, especially when you've got major cases to deal with. So, what's a lawyer to do? Apparently the solution is to file fifteen more class action lawsuits against law schools with questionable post-graduate employment data. Is your law school or alma mater a defendant?

Cooley Law and NYLS Hit With Class Action Lawsuits

Thomas M. Cooley Law School and New York Law School are both getting sued à la Alaburda v. TJSL, the lawsuit filed back in May against Thomas Jefferson School of Law by an unhappy alumna. What exactly are these lawsuits about? Kurzon Strauss, the firm behind the filings, has more info....

Cooley Lawsuit Update: One Of The ‘Cooley Four’ Responds To The Law School’s Complaint

One of the anonymous internet commenters who has been sued by Cooley Law School - who spent some time as a Cooley student, by the way - gives the school a piece of his mind.