Last month’s $178 million settlement with Pacific Power has sparked accusations of “collusion” and “mudslinging” among plaintiffs lawyers who represent thousands of victims of Oregon’s 2020 wildfires. Chicago’s Edelson, which is co-lead counsel in the litigation, obtained about $200 million in verdicts against Pacific Power and its parent company, PacifiCorp,…

Niklas Maydell, who has been managing partner of Weil, Gotshal & Manges’ Brussels office since it opened in 2022, faces a tough competitor in the war for talent in the EU’s unofficial administrative capital. Unlike in other European jurisdictions, he is not only contending with other deep-pocketed corporate law firms;…

The crypto mining company behind the largest Bitcoin hosting facility in North America has filed a multimillion-dollar securities fraud lawsuit in a Texas state court against joint venture partners and their officers. A team of Am Law 100 firm partners at Foley & Lardner, led by Robert T. Slovak, brought…

Atlanta litigators Miguel Dominguez and Leighton Moore have reached a $1.25 million settlement with Georgia State Patrol after a trooper shot an unarmed college student during a 2020 protest in downtown Atlanta. The leaders of Dominguez Law Firm and Moore Law Firm, respectively, credit the seven-figure resolution to their investigative…

Lawyers for Donald Trump are asking an intermediate New York appeals court to reduce or dismiss a lower court’s nearly $500 million civil fraud judgment against the former president and others, arguing that the “draconian” judgment and the case itself violate “centuries of New York case law.” Manhattan Supreme Court…

Pryor Cashman has added Maxwell Breed, who was most recently a management committee member and litigation co-chair of midsize firm Warshaw Burstein. Breed is joining Pryor Cashman’s real estate litigation group in New York, the firm said Tuesday. Breed said his departure from the 60-lawyer firm was “not because he was…