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Litigation
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In-House Ops
Alternative Fee Arrangements: Panacea or Problem: Delegate strategically to reduce downstream litigation costs
By Laura Kibbe and Shelley Brown, Esq., RVM Enterprises, Inc. One of the greatest challenges facing in-house counsel today is the soaring cost of litigation. One of the primary contributors to…
Employment Class and Collective Action Update
Jackson Lewis Class Action Trends Report Summer 2016 Now Available
Below is a link to the latest issue of the Jackson Lewis Class Action Trends Report. This report is published on a quarterly basis by our firm’s class action practice group…
UK Finance Disputes and Regulatory Investigations Blog
Squire Patton Boggs hosts inaugural Finance Disputes Roundtable in London
By Chris Webber
On 22 June 2016 we hosted the first in our planned series of Finance Disputes Roundtable breakfast events here at our offices in Devonshire Square in the heart of the…
NJ Family Legal Blog
Watch Out: Judges Start Getting Creative with Non-Complying Litigants and Obstructers
By Eliana Baer
If I’ve heard it once, I’ve heard it a million times: “why don’t judges enforce their own orders or take hard lines against obstructers?” Many times, litigants feel powerless. Powerless…
Energy & the Law
A Development in Trade-Secret Cases
Co-author Skyler Stuckey The big trade-secret case, Southwestern Energy v. Berry-Helfand, reported on these pages here and here, has been worked over by the Texas Supreme Court. Highlights: Lack of certainty in…
Consumer Finance Monitor
CFPB files supplemental amicus brief in Third Circuit FDCPA case to address Spokeo
The CFPB has filed a supplemental amicus brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Bock v. Pressler & Pressler, LLP, the case in which the…
Minnesota Wage & Hour
Big Win For Employers Prevailing in FLSA Litigation: 8th Circuit Holds Prevailing Employers Should Recover Litigation Costs
In a big win for employers, on June 2, 2016, in Lochridge v. Lindsey Management Co., Inc., the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals held that a prevailing defendant (employer) can, and…
Sentencing Law and Policy
SCOTUS talks through PLRA’s exhaustion requirement
Main June 6, 2016SCOTUS talks through PLRA's exhaustion requirementThe only criminal justice opinion handed down by the Supreme Court this morning concerned the application of the Prison Litigation Reform Act…
Legal Secrets
New 2016 Civil Procedure Laws
Here are a few new 2016 laws for litigators: Amendments on the Eve of Hearing - C.C.P. §472 To further curtail abuse with last minute amendments, section 472 to prohibit…
Government Contracts Legal Forum
FCA Back Before the Supreme Court for Third Consecutive Term
By Brian Tully McLaughlin, Jason Crawford
For the third consecutive term, the Supreme Court will hear a case involving the False Claims Act (FCA). On May 31, the Court granted review in State Farm Fire and…