A federal judge has greenlit a settlement awarding more than $51 million to shareholders in a securities action against a home medical equipment company. U.S. District Senior Judge Harvey Bartle III of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on Wednesday granted final approval to the resolution in a putative class action accusing AdaptHealth Corp. of…

Big Law’s most successful lawyers continue to take home bigger and bigger paychecks. But as their firms continue to make tectonic compensation shifts inside partnerships, does partner pay have nowhere to go but up? It’s conceivable that pay increases could slow down or temporarily reverse, said law firm leaders, recruiters and…

Total bans on electioneering in or near a voting site is constitutional, but a federal appeals court debated a regulation complying with state law that allows limited electioneering. The case before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit concerns a regulation adopted by the Palo Pinto County Commissioners…

NY Top Court Affirms November Ballot Question Asking to Codify Abortive Rights | New York Law Journal Page Printed From: https://www.law.com/newyorklawjournal/2024/07/11/ny-top-court-affirms-november-ballot-question-asking-to-codify-abortive-rights/ A panel of Court of Appeals Judges is joined by New York Governor Kathy Hochul, center, for the investiture ceremony of Court of Appeals Associate Judge Caitlin J. Halligan…

Tokyo-based firm Atsumi & Sakai has opened an office in Ho Chi Minh City, bringing in two lawyers from Japan and another from Vietnam to spearhead its operations. The Vietnam office marks the firm’s fifth office outside of Japan and first in Southeast Asia. The firm, which has been expanding…

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…