People in the News—July 24, 2024—High Swartz, Reed Smith | The Legal Intelligencer Page Printed From: https://www.law.com/thelegalintelligencer/2024/07/24/people-in-the-news-july-24-2024-high-swartz-reed-smith/ Caitlin Foley of High Swartz. Courtesy photo High Swartz announced that family law attorney Caitlin Foley has joined the Montgomery Child Advocacy Project (MCAP) as an advocate. July 24, 2024 at 11:00…

Your client gives you a contract and tells you that the counter-party has materially breached the agreement and amicable resolution is no longer an option. The contract includes an arbitration clause and there is no question that the dispute arises thereunder. However, the clause calls for arbitration before an institution…

Counsel with Jackson Lewis have entered their appearance in a whistleblower suit against U.S. Chess brought by a two-time national women’s champion, and also asked for the case to be removed from New Jersey state court to federal court. Joseph C. DeBlasio, a principal and office litigation manager of the…

In an eagerly anticipated en banc decision involving the proper standard for assessing when a claimed design is obvious, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit overruled the Rosen-Durling test that courts and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) have been applying for nearly 30 years, calling…

Dentons announced on Wednesday that former Ernst & Young global vice chair Kate Barton will become the firm’s next global CEO. Barton will replace Elliot Portnoy, who ends his term as global CEO in November. Portnoy has been the firm’s only global CEO since the 2013 combination of SNR Denton,…

After a two-week federal district court trial in Tampa, a jury hearing a dispute between USI Insurance Services and Lockton, a large national insurance brokerage firm and competitor, has returned a verdict. The jury found that Lockton had interfered with non-solicitation contracts and aided and abetted breaches of fiduciary duty…