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Nasdaq Sues Singaporean Company for Reselling Its Financial Feeds

Nasdaq filed a complaint Thursday accusing an unnamed Singaporean company of misappropriating its financial data feeds and reselling them at discount prices, undermining the New York-based company’s own business. The trade secrets complaint was filed in the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division by Brian…

Product Liability Class Action Filed Over Giant Brand Orange Soda

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…

NLRB Sues Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Alleging Labor Violations

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,…

With Hours Tenuous, New Metric Looks to Baseball to Assess Lawyer Productivity

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…