Happy Friday, and welcome to another roundup of the week’s news about the judiciary. This week, we’re taking a closer look at the new anti-judge-shopping policy the U.S. Judicial Conference announced this week. Plus, can former federal judge Richard Posner take part in a deposition in the wage lawsuit against…

Two weeks on from the inquest into the death of Pinsents Masons equity partner Vanessa Ford, many in the legal industry have been asking why such problems persist and what can be done about it. Ford, known professionally as Vanessa Heap, took her own life after an intense period of…

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman has hired a litigation partner to head its corporate investigations and white collar defense offering in London. Audrey Koh joins Pillsbury’s global disputes team after nearly three years at boutique law firm Avonhurst, according to her LinkedIn profile. Prior to that, she was a partner at…

A Miami attorney is suing over the death of a construction worker in August, when a crane collapsed at a South Florida hospital construction site. The plaintiff is the father of the 32-year-old worker killed. The wrongful death complaint was filed Thursday in Miami-Dade Circuit Court. Mario Bladimir Andino Renteria, who was…

An attorney suspended for 91 days after filing more than 3,000 Engle-progeny claims and failing, in part, to properly investigate the cases, had the Florida Supreme Court Thursday deny his petition for reinstatement. The ruling is bad news for the respondent, Norwood Sherman Wilner of the Jax Litigation Group, according to Warren…

Google Petitions to Award Arbitration Against ‘Vexatious Litigant’ | Law.com Page Printed From: https://www.law.com/2024/03/14/google-seeks-to-confirm-award-arbitration-against-former-employee-vexatious-litigant/ Signage outside Google’s Bay View campus in Mountain View, California. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar, ALM’s source for immediate alerting on just-filed cases in state and federal…