Pierce | Pierce Bainbridge
PHILADELPHIA – A Philadelphia attorney alleges that improper conduct on the part of Pierce Bainbridge founder John M. Pierce, in the form of threatening an unauthorized legal malpractice suit, was done in an attempt to notch a dismissal in a fee-sharing dispute matter.
The saga starts with a 2017
lawsuit filed by Lenwood Hamilton, a former professional wrestler and football player, which claimed that the Augustus “Cole Train” Cole character featured in the
Gears of War video game series unfairly appropriated his likeness.
Hamilton’s lawsuit targeted Microsoft, developer Epic Games and the voice actor for the Cole character, Lester Speight. There was a connection between Speight and Hamilton, when the two did business together in the late-1990s. Speight made appearances for Hamilton’s family-oriented wrestling promotion, Soul City Wrestling. At the time, the plaintiff’s wrestling alter-ego was “Hard Rock Hamil
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On Wednesday, DataCom Inc. filed a complaint in the Northern District of Ohio against former employee Shawn E. Campell and Connected Technologies LLC for the defendants’ alleged “ongoing misappropriation of DataCom’s trade secrets.”
According to the complaint, DataCom is “a licensed telecommunications contractor” and “provides a wide variety of telecommunications services, including, the installation of telephone systems and data networking, fire stopping, lightning and surge protection, video surveillance, access control, and cellular solution services (collectively, the ‘Services’).” DataCom noted that it typically relies on its relationship with customers and its goodwill for its business and work.
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President Biden’s Buy America degree calls for products purchased by the federal government to include American-produced content. Legal expert Casey McKinnon, of Cohen Seglias Pallas Greenhall & Furman PC, has advise for contractors on what this may mean for construction equipment that “consists wholly or predominantly” of iron and/or steel.
McKinnon posted a flowchart that will help contractors to determine whether a product or material is “domestic” under the revised FAR provisions.
“These changes are likely to result in confusion in the days ahead as contractors navigate the new Buy American requirements,” McKinnon wrote. “Compliance will be made all the more difficult by additional changes proposed by the Biden administration.”