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…

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,…

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…

The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in Purdue Pharma has put an end to the use of permanent plan injunctions in the form of nonconsensual third-party releases as a reorganizational tool in Chapter 11, at least for now. What was not addressed by the Supreme Court in Purdue Pharma is the propriety of temporary…

The fact that generative artificial intelligence has reigned over the conversation mill at the International Legal Technology Association Conference 2024 (ILTACON) should not surprise anyone. However, the way companies—at least some companies—are talking about the technology has markedly changed since 2023. For one, generative AI integrations alone are no longer…

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission agreed to dismiss its civil suit against former Mylan executive Ramkumar V. Rayapureddy, in what his Linklaters counsel are deeming as a “second victory” after the government also dismissed parallel criminal charges earlier this year just shy of a trial. In a stipulated dismissal Tuesday,…