IPH Limited, the Sydney-headquartered intellectual property services group with clients in more than 25 countries, has appointed 30-year veteran Dario Pietrantonio as managing director of ROBIC, its member firm in Canada’s French-speaking province of Quebec. Pietrantonio has been a longstanding member of the firm’s executive committee who joined ROBIC in 1994 and…

Federal agencies have vowed collaboration in a “whole of government” approach to preserving and promoting private sector competition in the industries they regulate, whether in securities, agriculture or international trade.  Touching on that theme Monday, the U.S. Department of Justice’s antitrust chief praised President Joe Biden’s executive order calling on…

Delaware courts are not making it easier to get the business judgment rule applied in corporate transaction cases. On top of more specific guidance about what exactly makes a director committee independent in the context of Kahn v. M&F Worldwide Cleansing cleansing, that’s been the corporate bar’s big takeaway from the…

For New Jersey lawyers who are fuming over online criticism from clients, responding with a lawsuit seems to have become more dangerous. And one law firm’s suit over a client’s online criticism could provide a textbook example of the risks of filing libel suits after the state enacted anti-SLAPP legislation, according to…

Philip Morris International and Swedish Match North America were slapped with a consumer class action in connection with the marketing and sale of ZYN brand oral nicotine pouches, accusing the defendants of marketing the product as a “nicotine-cessation device,” despite knowing it isn’t a proven or authorized cessation device and…

A South Florida attorney filed a lawsuit Monday in Miami federal court on behalf of a passenger on Carnival Freedom whose physicians allegedly delayed care and later refused to evacuate him from the ship while he was undergoing and after he suffered a heart attack. Todd Michaels is a partner…