Akin Elects Co-Chairs to Succeed Longtime Chair Kim Koopersmith | The American Lawyer Page Printed From: https://www.law.com/americanlawyer/2024/06/18/akin-elects-co-chairs-to-succeed-longtime-chair-kim-koopersmith/ Abid Qureshi, left, and Dan Walsh, right, co-chairs of Akin. Courtesy photos NEWS On April 1, 2025, London corporate partner Daniel Walsh and New York financial restructuring partner Abid Qureshi will put their…

Less than a month after suing to stop Johnson & Johnson’s potential third talc bankruptcy, lawyers for talc plaintiffs filed another class action Monday for women who want medical screening for ovarian cancer. The case, which seeks medical monitoring for “future victims,” aims to retain claims outside of a Chapter…

A nonattorney Western New York judge resigned amid allegations he sexually harassed a court clerk, the state’s judicial misconduct watchdog said Monday. Former Bethany Town Justice Joseph Nowakowski of Genesee County had been accused of sending the woman inappropriate text messages unrelated to court business, and when she told him…

With the sudden shuttering of the University of the Arts, one of the oldest art schools in the United States, comes a fair amount of legal work, thus far divvied up between four local law firms. Four federal class action lawsuits have been filed in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania…

Western Pa. Jury Returns $9.5M Verdict Over Botched Vasectomy | The Legal Intelligencer Page Printed From: https://www.law.com/thelegalintelligencer/2024/06/17/western-pa-jury-returns-9-5m-verdict-over-botched-vasectomy/ Credit: MarcoAntonioCP/Adobe Stock NEWS According to the plaintiffs’ lawyer, the doctor’s own recordkeeping was what drove the defendants’ loss. June 17, 2024 at 04:49 PM 3 minute read X Thank you for sharing!…

A former judge of the Superior Court of New Jersey has touched off a battle with the state judiciary over her attempt to compel testimony from Chief Justice Stuart Rabner in her suit over disability pension benefits. Deborah Gross-Quatrone is seeking a deposition of Rabner in her suit claiming the…