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Three students sue coding bootcamp Lambda School alleging false advertising and financial shenanigans
Lambda School has attracted a lot of attention, and raised some $130 million in venture funding from an impressive list of investors, for its novel approach to coding education: offering six-month virtual computer science courses for $30,000, with the option of paying for the courses in installments based on a sliding scale that only kicks in after you land a job that makes at least $50,000.
But it turns out that the startup is attracting a lot of controversy, too. In the latest development, three students have filed lawsuits against the company in California, claiming misleading financial and educational practices.
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2 Firms Picked To Lead Pa. Hospitals Antitrust Litigation
Law360 (March 11, 2021, 11:21 PM EST) A Pennsylvania federal judge on Thursday appointed Berger Montague and Cotchett Pitre & McCarthy LLP as interim counsel co-leading a pair of consolidated proposed antitrust class actions claiming rival hospitals illegally agreed not to poach each other s doctors and nurses, suppressing health care professionals wages in the area.
In a seven-page order, U.S. District Judge Matthew W. Brann appointed the two plaintiff s firms as co-lead counsel and consolidated separate putative class actions filed by health care workers in February against Geisinger Health and Evangelical Community Hospital.
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Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, LLP Adds Prominent Civil Litigator Karin Swope to Launch Seattle Office
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BURLINGAME, Calif. (BUSINESS WIRE) Feb 3, 2021
Karin Swope, a nationally recognized civil litigator, is joining Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, LLP. Swope was a Partner for several years at Keller Rohrback in Seattle and will join as a new partner and launch CPM’s new Seattle office.
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Swope is a graduate of Amherst College and Columbia Law School, and later served as a law clerk to the Honorable John C. Coughenour in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. Following that, she served as a clerk to the Honorable Robert E. Cowen of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia. At Keller Rohrback, Swope was a leader on many of the largest, most complex class action ca
Sheriff s deputy wants to see Toronto Raptors president s credential; access hampered by pandemic
By Lisa Fernandez
Extended video: Deputy polite to several other fans before shoving Toronto Raptors president twice
The body camera of Alameda County sheriff s deputy Alan Strickland shows several other fans trying to get past a security checkpoint before Toronto Raptors president Masai Ujiri comes down to congratulate his team. Strickland politely tells other fans they can t exit that way. He ends up shoving Ujiri twice.
OAKLAND, Calif. - The legal teams for an Alameda County Sheriff s deputy and the president of the Toronto Raptors continue to wage arguments in court 17 months after a high-profile shoving incident, and the focus of the latest issue is the exact security credential that basketball executive Masai Ujiri was wearing on June 13, 2019.