After abandoning claims against global recruiting firm Major, Lindsey & Africa, the bankruptcy trustee for ousted Major Lindsey recruiter Sharon Mahn said in court this week that no distributions will be available to Mahn’s creditors. Chapter 7 trustee Gregory Messer’s report of no distribution on Monday, which included a request that he…

A New York bill aiming to lift the categorical ban for convicted felons to serve on juries is more about facilitating re-entry to society than it is about tilting trials toward defense lawyers, its advocates say. Advanced by the Legislature’s Democratic majority, the Jury of Our Peers Act, if signed by Gov. Kathy…

The Texas Supreme Court split the baby in one of the state’s most intractable big agriculture nuisance cases, ordering a trial court to more narrowly define a death penalty injunction. The case involves an East Texas poultry farm client of Sanderson Farms Inc., one of the nation’s largest poultry meat…

A class action complaint filed in a federal court in Boston on Tuesday alleges the multinational aerospace and defense conglomerate RTX Corp. discriminated against older job applicants and refused to hire workers for positions unless they were recent graduates. AARP Foundation, along with attorneys from Peter Romer-Friedman Law and Outten & Golden,…

Counsel for U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez, D-New Jersey, on Tuesday, began cross-examining cooperating witness Jose Uribe, a New Jersey businessman who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bribery, honest services wire fraud, tax evasion and other offenses in March. Menendez’s attorney Adam Fee of Paul Hastings worked to demonstrate to…

Plaintiffs attorneys Peter Law Sr., Brian Kaplan and Michael Moran have secured a $47 million verdict in a wrongful death, no-offer trucking case out of Cherokee County for the surviving family of a man hit when a Schneider tractor-trailer swerved into oncoming traffic on I-285 South. The result—handed up by the…