A jury in Essex County, New Jersey, returned a $55 million verdict to a woman who suffered amputations of both legs when a truck hit her. Following a two-week trial before Superior Court Judge Thomas Vena, the verdict was entered April 11 against Alert Motor Freight and Jersey City Transport, two…

The longest-serving member of the five-person Federal Trade Commission is expressing exasperation over attacks from congressional Republicans that the agency is helping the European Union target U.S. tech companies with outsized regulation that adds billions of dollars in costs. Speaking at an FTC event last week, Rebecca Kelly Slaughter slapped down allegations that…

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has turned to U.S. firm Cooley for the newest addition to its London capital markets team. Partner David Boles is set to join to Freshfields after four years in Cooley’s  capital markets team, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.

Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe has added veteran IP litigator Irena Royzman to its roster in New York, the firm said Monday. Royzman had been the head of Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel’s life sciences practice. “Irena’s extraordinary scientific credentials and winning litigation record have earned the trust of the world’s…

Three of Crowell & Moring’s consumer class action defense partners, who have represented General Motors in products liability cases, started at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius on Monday, as demand for litigators experienced in multidistrict litigation continues to grow. Washington, D.C.-based April Nelson Ross and Rachel Raphael and Chicago-based Mohamed Awan…

U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero of the Southern District of New York on Friday sentenced former Amazon security engineer Shakeeb Ahmed to three years in prison in connection with a cryptocurrency hacking scheme. Ahmed, 34, pleaded guilty to one count of computer fraud in December, acknowledging that he hacked two…