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Suit Against Law Firm Could Signal Next Wave of Mortgage Modification Fraud

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Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy has sued a Los Angeles-area law firm for allegedly collecting illegal fees from a couple for a "forensic loan audit," promising to stop the foreclosure of their property -- which they quickly lost. The lawsuit accuses attorney Francisco Nogales of promising the audit would induce the couple's lender to modify their [...]

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Prior Suit May Signal Fate of Cases Against Ga. Megachurch Pastor

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Despite a flurry of news reports, the suits alleging that Georgia megachurch pastor Eddie Long coerced young men into sexual relationships are in the earliest stages of litigation. But some clues about how the cases may fare can be found in the matter of another megachurch pastor who was accused by a former congregant of [...]

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Paul Allen Sues 11 Companies, Including Google and Apple, for Patent Infringement

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Billionaire Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, filed suit Friday in federal court against 11 Internet search and e-commerce companies, including Apple, Google and Facebook, alleging that they are using technology developed at his now-shuttered California laboratory, Interval Research Corp. The suit lists alleged violations of four technology patents developed at Interval Research in the 1990s, [...]

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Crowell & Moring Hit With Second Malpractice Suit From Hijack Case

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Crowell & Moring has been smacked with a second malpractice lawsuit related to the law firm's representation of victims of the Pan Am Flight 73 hijacking in Pakistan in 1986. The lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court, alleges that Crowell & Moring unlawfully withheld millions of dollars in settlement money from family members [...]

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$55 Million Suit Against Paul Hastings Over Acquisition Loan Goes Forward

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A $55 million lawsuit by a unit of Cerberus Capital Management L.P. can proceed against Paul Hastings over allegations the firm gave faulty advice on a loan made in connection with a private equity firm's 2008 acquisition of bankrupt retailer Steve & Barry's. A New York judge said the law firm had not shown it [...]

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3rd Circuit Won't Revive Aetna Securities Fraud Suit

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A securities fraud suit against insurance giant Aetna fell flat on Wednesday when a federal appeals court refused to revive claims by investors who said the company made false statements about its "disciplined" pricing strategies that were designed to drive up the stock price so that three top executives could cash in and sell $61 [...]

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Bernstein Litowitz Named Lead Counsel in Toyota Shareholder Suit

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Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossman was named lead counsel on Monday in the shareholder class action against Toyota over sudden unintended acceleration. U.S. District Judge Dale Fischer in Los Angeles consolidated seven class actions against Toyota in June but held off a decision about lead counsel pending the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Morrison v. [...]

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Gulf Coast Residents File Personal Injury Suit Over Oil Dispersant

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The first personal injury lawsuit involving the chemical dispersant Corexit 9500 has surfaced in Alabama federal court, where two Gulf Coast residents and property owners claim BP has dumped millions of gallons of toxic chemicals into the Gulf of Mexico to disperse and sink crude oil. The plaintiffs allege one method of applying Corexit 9500 [...]

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Novartis Settles Gender Bias Suit for $152 Million

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Novartis Pharmaceuticals will pay upwards of $152.5 million to potentially thousands of female employees to settle the remainder of gender bias claims brought by field representatives who claimed they were discriminated against in pay, promotion and pregnancy policies. On May 19, a New York jury awarded $250 million in punitive damages, the largest-ever award in [...]

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Troutman, 2 Partners Hit With Second Investor Suit

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A second disgruntled investor has filed a civil suit against Troutman Sanders, real estate partner Leonard Grunstein and corporate partner Lawrence Levinson -- all of whom were also named as defendants in a civil suit filed last month by a New York real estate investor. Allen Bodner accuses the defendants of legal malpractice and breach [...]

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Suit Filed Over Health Care Reform Limits on Physician-Owned Hospitals

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A suit filed Thursday in Texas federal court challenges provisions in the new health care reform law that place new restrictions on physician-owned hospitals. The suit may be the only one by a physician-owned hospital or other group challenging those provisions, says Lindsey Birdsong, attorney for plaintiffs Physician Hospitals of America and Texas Spine and [...]

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Courts Split on Staying Gulf Oil Spill Lawsuits

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Two federal courts on Tuesday came down on opposite sides of whether to stay lawsuits filed over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. An Alabama judge denied BP's request to stay a seafood processor's suit, holding that BP should answer the complaint now because it will have to at some point. A New Orleans judge [...]

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Student's Privacy Rights Violated in Pa. 'Sexting' Case, ACLU Suit Says

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The hot-button issue of "sexting" is coming back to court and this time the ACLU is setting out to establish that high school students have a right to privacy that includes the contents of their cell phones. A team of lawyers from Cozen O'Connor has partnered with the ACLU of Pennsylvania to sue on behalf [...]

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Ponzi Investor Suit Targets Greenberg Traurig, Quarles & Brady

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On Tuesday, Greenberg Traurig and Quarles & Brady were named as defendants in an investor class action filed in federal district court in Arizona for allegedly aiding and abetting a Ponzi scheme run by a real estate loan company called Mortgages Ltd. and a financing company called Radical Bunny. In an attempt to bypass Stoneridge, [...]

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Sued Over Unpaid Legal Fees, Client Hits Squire Sanders With Malpractice Suit

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After suing a client for $1.2 million in unpaid legal fees, Squire Sanders & Dempsey has been slapped with a legal malpractice lawsuit and is running up its own bills by hiring an outside law firm to defend itself. The case exemplifies why some law firms are refusing to follow the escalating trend of filing [...]

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Parties in Toyota Securities Suit Told to Resolve Discovery Fight

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A federal judge in Los Angeles has declined a request by plaintiffs lawyers in a shareholder class action to force attorneys for Toyota to turn over documents provided to Congress, which has been investigating vehicle recalls associated with sudden unintended acceleration defects. Instead, the judge ordered the parties to reach a discovery agreement on their [...]

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Partner's Discrimination Suit Against Firm Headed Back to 3rd Circuit

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A Pennsylvania law firm is poised to square off in the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals against one of its own partners in a potentially groundbreaking sex discrimination suit that could open the door to female lawyers suing for equal pay -- even after they have been named partners. Alyson J. Kirleis accuses Dickie [...]

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Pope, Vatican Officials Targeted in New Suit by U.S. Sex Abuse Victims

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A federal suit filed on Thursday in Milwaukee alleges that Pope Benedict XVI and senior Vatican officials covered up allegations that a Wisconsin priest molested at least 200 children at a suburban Milwaukee school for the deaf. The lead plaintiff's lawyer is seeking injunctive relief, hoping to force the Vatican to open what he claims [...]

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Goldman Sachs Co-GC Surprised, 'Disappointed' by SEC's Suit

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Gregory Palm, co-general counsel of Goldman Sachs Group, defended his company Tuesday and told investors the government's suit against the Wall Street giant took him by surprise. Palm said his legal department spent the past 18 months talking and providing records to the SEC. The complaint alleges that the company misstated and omitted key facts [...]

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Encyclopaedia Britannica Sues Dickstein Shapiro for $250 Million

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Encyclopaedia Britannica is suing Dickstein Shapiro for more than $250 million, claiming that the firm botched a patent application. The suit, filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, alleges that Dickstein Shapiro mishandled several patents, leading the encyclopedia maker to lose a patent infringement suit it brought against several GPS [...]

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