SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline) - A law firm accused by district attorneys in San Francisco and Los Angeles of filing shakedown lawsuits against immigrant-owned businesses will live to sue another day after an appeals court ruled the litigation privilege protects lawyers against civil suits over virtually anything they do or say in connection with pending litigation.
Shook Partner Published on New York Consumer Protection Laws - Cary Silverman, a partner in the firm’s Public Policy Group, was published in Albany’s Times Union letters t.
Concerns that foreign entities are exerting influence on US litigation via third-party financing are entirely overblown, according to the head of lawsuit funders’ primary trade group.
WASHINGTON – A top U.S. Chamber of Commerce official points to what he calls a “concerning” shift in antitrust perspectives under Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Kanter.
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - BP and Shell have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in a lawsuit by a Louisiana parish over coastal flooding, saying they can’t get a fair trial in a place where any jurors know they have the opportunity to pump billions of dollars into their troubled local economy by ruling against the oil companies.