An attorney for E. Jean Carroll on Friday told a New York federal court that Donald Trump would likely "seek to sow chaos" at an upcoming trial determining damages for defamation, citing Trump's recent public comments about the case and urging the court to take "prophylactic measures" surrounding his behavior.
A California federal judge on Wednesday set Tom Girardi's criminal trial for May 21, pushing aside the disbarred attorney's request to hold the proceedings until 2025 while telling his attorneys that they should have been prepared for the court's recent order that Girardi is competent to stand trial.
Weeks after Delta Dental of California's law firm Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP was hit with a proposed class action over a data leak that allegedly included Delta files, the insurer was hit with a suit in Massachusetts federal court on Monday over another leak connected to the massive MOVEit data breach.
Counsel for former Dickstein Shapiro LLP partners who claim Blank Rome LLP owes them $4 million because the firms' merger was mischaracterized as an asset sale urged a California appellate panel on Thursday to vacate a ruling affirming an arbitrator's decision in favor of Blank Rome, saying the arbitrator followed the wrong procedures.
A split Ninth Circuit panel on Thursday held that a lower court erred in not allowing a proposed class of ice cream buyers to dismiss their own lawsuit without prejudice against Halo Top Creamery for allegedly underfilling its pints, finding Halo Top didn't argue how it would suffer legal prejudice.