Following a hung jury and the subsequent denial of the parties’ motions for post-trial relief, a second jury trial is scheduled June 10 in an ongoing dispute between three former UberBLACK drivers and Uber as to whether the Philadelphia-based drivers were misclassified as independent contractors, rather than employees. In a Tuesday…

Texas Attorney General Kenneth Paxton filed a petition for review at the Texas Supreme Court, seeking to reverse a Dallas Court of Appeals denial of his attempt to dismiss a State Bar of Texas ethics complaint. A three-judge panel of the Fifth District appellate court in Dallas on April 18…

Napoli Shkolnik and Ex-Partner Heather Palmore ‘Quiet Quit’ Their Lawsuits | New York Law Journal Page Printed From: https://www.law.com/newyorklawjournal/2024/06/05/litigation-over-alleged-quieting-quitting-fizzles-out-with-discontinuance/ Heather M. Palmore. Couretsy photo NEWS Both parties withdrew their actions pursuant to stipulations. The case made national headlines as firms grappled with hybrid work. June 05, 2024 at 02:50 PM…

The Georgia Court of Appeals has ruled that a defendant whose insurer settled with a plaintiff can’t be kept in the case in order to anchor the venue in a case with other defendants. The unanimous opinion, authored by Judge Trenton Brown, echoed Presiding Judge Stephen Dillard’s trepidation toward the…

Lawyers sometimes complain about waiting an inordinately long time for New Jersey federal judges to issue rulings on motions, but are those reports legitimate? Litigators sometimes complain about long waits for rulings on motions in federal court, although few are willing to go on the record for fear of angering the judges…

Demand for junior lawyers in Canada remains stable, with litigation the most in-demand practice area, recruiters and lawyers say. It’s the time of year when firms across the country start making associate job offers for the law students that have been articling or training with the firm over the last…