As London’s legal sector continues to face rising pressure from talent wars, law firms are employing different tactics to retain and attract lawyers. This can include changing pay structures to reward top performers, enhancing bonus systems, offering loyalty payments, or ‘golden handcuffs’ as some call it. But another tactic which…

The Federal Trade Commission and U.S. Food and Drug Administration have alerted five  companies that their marketing of cannabis edibles could be misleading and unsafe because their packaging resembles children’s cereal, snack and cookie containers. On Tuesday, the FTC and FDA sent joint cease-and-desist letters to cannabis shops Hippy Mood,…

Amazon is facing a suit in a Texas court on behalf of a nationwide class of warehouse workers who claim the company’s human resources smartphone app wrongly denied their requests for disability accommodations. Amazon warehouse employees are required to download an app called A to Z on their smartphones where…

Blank Rome Adds Private Equity Duo From Ballard Spahr | The Legal Intelligencer Page Printed From: https://www.law.com/thelegalintelligencer/2024/07/16/blank-rome-adds-private-equity-duo-from-ballard-spahr/ Blank Rome partners Christopher DePizzo, left, and Jeffrey Fickes, right. Courtesy photos NEWS Jeffrey Fickes, who co-chaired Ballard’s private equity practice, and Christopher DePizzo join the firm in New York as partners. July…

A former Dentons Canada lawyer who spent the last five years in-house at one of the country’s largest hydro companies is returning to the firm as a partner in the litigation and dispute resolution group in Montreal. Alexandre-Philippe Avard is a skilled litigator with expertise in energy, natural resources, mining…

The former employee who brought sex trafficking and sexual assault claims against the World Wrestling Federation and co-founder Vince McMahon has filed a bill of discovery complaint against a doctor. Janel Grant, the plaintiff, is seeking to obtain her medical records from Dr. Carlon M. Colker, the CEO and medical…