Law firms across Europe have been busy making moves, from lateral hires in Spain and Italy to an absorption in Portugal and a new practice in Poland. Spain In Spain, Herbert Smith Freehills has hired a partner and three associates from CMS Albiñana & Suárez de Lezo to join its…

Attorneys with Sills Cummis & Gross filed suit against Newark on behalf of businesses involved in logistics, claiming that enforcement of a revenue-generating ordinance that changed license fees on the storage of shipping containers violates the federal and state constitutions and state law. This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar, ALM’s…

Chilean legal juggernaut Carey has appointed a new managing partner as part of a succession plan that takes effect after decades of leadership by the Carey brothers. Longtime partner Pablo Iacobelli assumes the role of managing partner from Jaime Carey, who will become senior partner, while Jorge Carey will become…

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission sued a married couple, their company and several of the company’s promoters on Monday for a fraudulent scheme that raised more than $650 million in cryptocurrency from around 200,000 investors worldwide. The SEC charged Cynthia and Eddy Petion, along with their company, NovaTech Ltd., and…

The arbitration agreement found inside a loan app company’s “clickwrap agreement” provided sufficient notice to enforce arbitration, a Pennsylvania federal judge recently ruled, finding that last year’s state appellate ruling raising the standard for enforcing such agreements was “flawed.” U.S. District Judge Susan Rose Paradise Baxter of the Western District of Pennsylvania…

Check out whats clicking on FoxBusiness.com Johnson & Johnson has cleared a key threshold of support for its proposed $6.5-billion settlement of tens of thousands of lawsuits alleging its baby powder and other talc products caused cancer, according to a Bloomberg report. More than 75% of claimants voted in favor…