Q&A “I’ve worked hard and achieved professional success, but prioritizing my family is the foundation on which all of that is built. With the benefit of hindsight, it was undoubtedly the right decision, and that’s the advice I would give to lawyers just starting out in their legal careers: set…

Plaintiffs in the FTX Trading Ltd. multidistrict litigation raised several objections to the disclosure statement in Delaware bankruptcy court, including that the reorganization plan allegedly severely undervalues customer recoveries and that it omits that an independent investigation was recommended into an Am Law 100 firm. Adam Moskowitz, managing partner at…

Macfarlanes is the firm with the highest profit margin in the U.K. Top 50, according to an analysis of limited liability partnership accounts that showed a wider decrease in profit margins. Macfarlanes’ operating profit margin for the 2022-23 financial year was 52%, putting it ahead of Stewarts, Brodies and Fieldfisher,…

Our Litigators of the week are William Brewer III of Brewer, Attorneys & Counselors, the longtime outside counsel for the National Rifle Association, and David Cole of the American Civil Liberties Union whom Brewer called on to help revive the NRA’s First Amendment case against ex-New York state Department of…

Florida jurors are expected to start deliberations on Friday in a long-running case against Chiquita Brands International that seeks compensation for family members of individuals who were allegedly murdered by an armed group in Colombia. The class action was filed after a 2007 U.S. criminal case in which Chiquita pleaded guilty…

Willkie Farr & Gallagher is acting on a £1 billion collective action against Amazon at the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) in London, the biggest suit to have ever been launched by U.K. retailers. The damages claim is being brought by the British Independent Retailers Association (BIRA) on behalf of retailers on Amazon’s U.K. marketplace,…