Washington, D.C., ranked as the city with the highest billing rates for litigation in 2023, according to a new survey from the National Association of Legal Fee Analysis. A quarter of survey respondents in D.C., which included full-time equivalent litigators, both defense and plaintiffs counsel, fell within the highest tier, tier 4,…

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Friday revived a photographer’s free speech lawsuit against a New York antidiscrimination law that requires her to shoot same-sex weddings. Judge Allison Nathan, writing for the panel, said photographer Emilee Carpenter’s claim that the law compels her to speak against her…

Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp filed a copyright infringement claim on behalf of Unidisc Music  against Cleopatra Music on Thursday in the Central District of the U.S. District Court of California. Unidisc contends that it owns the Canadian rights to the recordings of Melanie Safka, the American folk singer popularly known as…

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s ruling in Dwyer v. Ameriprise Financial, 2024 Pa. LEXIS 608, 313 A.3d 969 (Pa. 2024), continues a recent trend of promoting the broad interpretation of Pennsylvania’s Unfair trade Practices and Consumer Protection Law (CPL) in order to fulfill its remedial purpose. Rebuking the more restrictive viewpoints of…

An independent investigation commissioned by Seton Hall University discredits sexual harassment claims that are at the center of a lawsuit filed against the New Jersey school by its former president and his wife. An investigation by New York litigation boutique Perry Law concluded that allegations of sexual harassment of Kelli…

After three years of litigation, Atlanta attorneys with Deitch + Rogers have obtained a confidential $15 million settlement for a pair of clients in an underlying premises liability dispute. Andrew T. Rogers, Gilbert H. Deitch, Michael D’Antignac and Kara E. Phillips joined forces to help secure the eight-figure outcome for two…