New York State officials said they are prepared to resume litigation against Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family should the parties fail to agree by a Sept. 9 court-imposed deadline on a comprehensive settlement for damages related to fueling the opioid epidemic. David Nachman, special counsel for the state Attorney…

After spending over two decades on tech procurement and compliance in-house at organizations like BlackRock, Viacom and J.P. Morgan, Vandana Dhamija returned to consulting on legal operations earlier this year. As the founder and CEO of Legal Operations Consulting, a firm she started over nine years ago, Dhamija came back to it…

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit vacated a nearly $5 million attorney fee award in favor of a small Pennsylvania-based athletic clothing brand that accused Nike of trademark infringement over its “Cool Compression” trademark. In a July 10 opinion, authored by Third Circuit Judge Thomas Hardiman, the court…

WEX, a commercial banking company based in Portland, Maine, scored a victory in a trademark battle against HP Tuesday after a federal judge granted the plaintiff’s motion for a preliminary injunction, banning HP from using its “Workforce Experience Platform” trademark during the pending case. WEX filed the suit in the U.S. District Court for…

A little over four years ago, Charles Martin stepped down as senior partner at Macfarlanes after 12 years at the helm. Not long after, he retired from the U.K.-based independent firm he had called home for more than 40 years, having reached the firm’s mandatory retirement age of 60. “I’d…

Hip-hop band Beastie Boys, represented by Rimon Law partner Michael Lazaroff, filed a copyright infringement complaint against the parent company of restaurant chain Chili’s on Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The complaint alleges that, starting in late 2022, Texas-based Brinker International Inc. encouraged the creation and…