A Connecticut state judge granted a motion to strike the claims in three class actions against restaurants alleging wage violations. Superior Court Judge Cesar A. Noble agreed with the defendants’ contentions that the suits relied on inapplicable and old versions of regulations, the claims were timed-barred, and a private cause…

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman is defending the Regents of the University of California in a trade secrets complaint brought by Jones Day on behalf of Agensys Inc., which alleges a key scientist disclosed confidential information regarding promising cancer research. The suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central…

Law firm mergers continued to accelerate during the second quarter and are expected to keep escalating through the second half of the year and into 2025, a legal industry consultancy said Monday. A memo from Fairfax Associates tallied nine completed law firm combinations during Q2, including the long-awaited union between…

Greene Broillet & Wheeler clinched a $6.1 million win on behalf of whistleblowers against the Regents of the University of California, UC’s governing body, on June 27. The suit, originally filed in November 2021, consolidated two separate whistleblower retaliation complaints brought by Dr. Jeannie Lochhead and Dr. Michele Nelson, both former faculty members…

Singapore’s financial watchdog issued a warning late in late June that the country’s banking sector, including wealth management, poses the highest risk of money laundering to the country. Regulators had already been clamping down and reevaluating its new entrants of family offices following a corruption scandal that broke last year.…

Crowell & Moring and the Anti-Defamation League filed a lawsuit on Monday on behalf of more than 125 plaintiffs, alleging that Iran, Syria and North Korea provided material support to Hamas and enabled the Oct. 7, 2023, terror attack on Israel. The suit, filed in Washington, D.C., federal court, is seeking financial…