Entertainment More Actor Casey Affleck has finalised a divorce from actress Summer Phoenix after a private settlement. IANS | Updated: Sep 16, 2017, 15:58 IST Actor Casey Affleck has finalised a divorce from actress Summer Phoenix after a private settlement. A judge signed off on his divorce from Phoenix on Friday, according to court documents …
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For Equifax’s Legal Team, Breach Likely To Bring Litigation Challenges, High Price Tag – Law.com (su…
One week after Equifax Inc. revealed a cybersecurity incident impacting some 143 million U.S. consumers, the credit reporting behemoth is facing legal and reputational repercussions of massive proportions. For a legal department led by corporate vice president and chief legal officer John Kelley III, who seemingly has the last word on company security and compliance matters, the coming …
Gender Analytics: Using Litigation Data to Evaluate Law Firm Diversity
Guest Post by By Michael Sander,[1] Tara Klamrowski, and Rachel Sander Legal analytics can now identify law firms committed to gender diversity by analyzing the gender of attorney appearances. Docket Alarm has done so for the United States Supreme Court and specialized patent courts. The lack of gender diversity is significant, especially in patent cases. Here …
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Popular YouTube-to-MP3 Site Dies Under Crushing Weight of Record Company Litigation
Photo: Getty The operators of YouTube-MP3.org, a popular website for turning the audio tracks of YouTube videos into MP3s, have agreed to shut down the site and hand over the domain to the RIAA. This predictable outcome comes after 15 of the world’s largest record companies filed a complaint in a California court. Poor little …
Franchise Litigation Rising Over Dietary Considerations – JD Supra (press release)
Rising concerns over food sourcing and preparation is leading to more and more litigation for restaurants and franchises. Most of the lawsuits claim discrimination, which makes sense as many dietary strictures are rooted in religious tradition. Other restaurant lawsuits are based on disability discrimination, as some plaintiffs suffer physical hardships when their dietary needs are …
Judge rules Yahoo must face litigation from data breach victims after more than ONE BILLION users ha…
A US judge said Yahoo must face nationwide litigation brought on behalf of more than one billion users who said their personal information was compromised in three massive data breaches. Wednesday night’s decision from US District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California, was a setback for efforts by Verizon Communications Inc, which acquired Yahoo’s …
Training Could Have Helped These Companies Avoid Litigation
Yesterday’s Advisor highlighted a few legal cases that serve as reminders that antidiscrimination and antiharassment training is essential for employers that want to avoid becoming a defendant. Today, we present a few more costly examples of cases that proper training could have averted. In another sexual harassment case, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed …
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Think Tank: Litigation Trends Brands Need to Know Now to Mitigate Risk – WWD
A recent study by legal research organization Acritas found that U.S. companies spend, for every dollar of revenue, nearly triple the amount on legal services than their counterparts around the globe. Unfortunately, doing business in the U.S. comes with increased risk and exposure to unanticipated litigation, which raises the underlying “cost” of doing business. Here, …
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Lex Machina commercial litigation report shows that one-fifth of commercial cases include IP claims
In early August, legal data analytics firm Lex Machina released its first Commercial Litigation Year in Review report, which identifies trends and highlights in commercial litigation filed in U.S. district courts between 2009 and 2017. Although the recent Lex Machina report focuses mainly on cases involving breach of contract or business torts, there appears to …
When does “litigation” become sufficient to trigger litigation privilege?
This decision is perhaps of greater interest for the discussion on litigation privilege in the context of investigations – something which was not pleaded in the recent RBS litigation (dealing with the scope of legal advice privilege). It was common ground that communications between parties or their solicitors and third parties for the purpose of …
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