The federal judge in charge of imposing wide-scale changes to how Google runs its app store said he has no intention of micromanaging the tech giant but warned that Google should get ready to open the floodgates. “We’re going to tear the barriers down. When you have a mountain that’s…

Fresh off opening its first international office in London, Pierson Ferdinand has grown quickly as its leaders work to create a fully transparent financial model for partners and seek to create a firmwide culture within a fully distributed law firm model. The firm opened a full-service shop after it spun…

The Giant Company was hit with a product liability class action on Aug. 13 in Pennsylvania Middle District Court. The court action, filed by Lynch Carpenter and Poulin, Willey Anastopoulo, contends that the defendant failed to warn consumers that Giant brand orange soda contains brominated vegetable oil. Counsel have not…

The National Labor Relations Board sued The PG Publishing Co. d/b/a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette over alleged labor law violations on Aug. 14 in Pennsylvania Western District Court. The lawsuit contends that the newspaper publisher has refused to negotiate in good faith with the collective bargaining representatives of the newspaper’s editorial, mailing,…

Although multiple groups have charted a modest rise in productivity this year, the number of hours that lawyers bill has arguably become a less useful measure of the work they do and the revenue they generate, and has generally continued declining even as firms have become more profitable than ever over…

The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in Purdue Pharma has put an end to the use of permanent plan injunctions in the form of nonconsensual third-party releases as a reorganizational tool in Chapter 11, at least for now. What was not addressed by the Supreme Court in Purdue Pharma is the propriety of temporary…