Seven employment and workplace relations partners are to defect from Australian corporate law firm Corrs Chambers Westgarth to King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) in one of the largest partner departures in Australia in recent years. In a much-anticipated move, Corrs partners John Tuck, Kirsty Faichen, Paul Burns, Graeme Watson, Sarah…

The drowning death of a civil service employee on a U.S. Army facility has raised an issue on whether it’s possible to preserve a storm-related liability claim against the United States. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit sent, and the Texas Supreme Court accepted, a certified question…

A federal judge in Pennsylvania cleared the way for two American Airlines passengers’ claims of breach of contract and false light invasion of privacy against the airliner, finding the plaintiffs put forth sufficient allegations to show that they were wrongly removed from their flight. In an Aug. 12 decision, U.S. District…

A longtime attorney seeking to dissolve a Rochester law firm for which he’s the lone remaining shareholder hasn’t been able to head off a federal New York lawsuit alleging a years-long practice of blending employee-contributed retirement funds with its general operating account. The U.S. Department of Labor recently filed suit…

Mary O’Carroll, who in 2008 became Google’s first legal-ops professional and has been a leader in the legal-ops field since, is joining the Am Law 100 law firm Goodwin Procter as chief operating officer. Joining Boston-based Goodwin represents a return to Big Law for O’Carroll, who is not a lawyer…

The Miami-Dade Circuit Court ruled in an order entered this weekend that Romspen US Mortgage Investment Fund, represented by Am Law 200 firm Shutts & Bowen, is owed nearly $18 million from company 7 at Blue Lagoon LLC. The property is set for foreclosure sale by the Miami-Dade clerk of the court…