London’s High Court has ruled in favour of the Republic of Mozambique, awarding over two billion dollars against an institution in the United Arab Emirate for its role in the fraudulent ‘Tuna Bonds’ deal which plunged the African country into a financial crisis. Justice Robin Knowles, on Monday, concluded that…

More Am Law 100 law firms are training their summer associates in generative AI, seeing the potential in the technology for both legal education and business. Among the latest is Seyfarth Shaw, which launched this year a 10-week program for summers with sessions geared around learning commercial and in-house AI…

A midlevel appeals court has dismissed the New York government and all other defendants from a first-impression lawsuit alleging hundreds of residents in the Finger Lakes region are aggrieved by horrific odors from a nearby landfill. The case, decided Friday, is the first of nine present lawsuits throughout New York under…

Three former employees of Seton Hall University School of Law have entered guilty pleas in connection with the embezzlement of more than $1.3 million from the school. Teresina DeAlmeida, a former assistant dean for finance and administration, and Rose Martins, her assistant, each pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy on Friday…

In a 4-3 majority opinion issued last week, the Ohio Supreme Court rejected a customer’s attempt to hold a restaurant and its suppliers liable as a matter of law after he unexpectedly swallowed a bone from what he thought was a boneless chicken wing. The plaintiff, Michael Berkheimer, sued REKM,…

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit reversed a $78.75 million award for class counsel in a $350 million settlement against T-Mobile, concluding a multiplier of nearly 10 times the attorneys’ hourly rate—upwards of $9,500—was unreasonable. In a July 29 opinion, authored by Judge Morris S. Arnold, the three judge panel…