On Tuesday, Australian legal tech startup Atticus, which offers a verification software that allows lawyers to fact-check documents such as annual reports, IPO prospectuses and more, announced that it received a $10.84 million minority investment from Skip Capital and Blackbird Ventures. The investment is the first time the Melbourne- and…

A woman who claimed her foster parent abused her more than 50 years ago has agreed to a $6.75 million settlement with New Jersey in her Middlesex County suit. The accord was struck in the wake of a $25 million verdict in a similar case handled by the same lawyers.…

Dentons has hired former Dechert corporate lawyer Stephen Chan as a partner for its Hong Kong office. Chan advises on public and private mergers and acquisitions, private equity deals, equity capital markets deals including real estate investment trusts listings, restructurings, and takeovers.

Netflix is the target of a new lawsuit over its inclusion of copyrighted video clips in the 2024 documentary series “You Are What You Eat.” Doniger/Burroughs Law Firm filed the complaint last Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California on behalf of Scottish videographer Corin Smith. The plaintiff…

Kenya, Collections/ALM The Supreme Court of Kenya has ruled that its decisions cannot be reviewed by the East African Court of Justice (EACJ) even though Kenya and seven other countries helped establish the court—a precedent-setting decision that poses a significant threat to the future of the cash-strapped regional court.

In a measure to address Google’s “systemic and pervasive advertising” of copyrighted educational textbooks, publishers such as Cengage Learning, MacMillan Learning, McGraw Hill and Elsevier Inc. filed a federal lawsuit last week alleging that Google has profited from ads for pirated copies of their books. This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar,…