Class action and privacy litigator Tony Weibell moved to Mayer Brown’s Palo Alto, California, office in January after spending his entire career, nearly 19 years, at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. Weibell, known for his representation of major tech players such as Google LLC, TikTok Inc. and Roblox Corp., said…

Pa. Judge’s ‘Extensive’ Opinion Gives Guidance on Allowing Video Testimony in Opening Statements | The Legal Intelligencer Page Printed From: https://www.law.com/thelegalintelligencer/2024/03/12/pa-judges-extensive-opinion-gives-guidance-on-allowing-video-testimony-in-opening-statements/ Lackawanna County Courthouse, Scranton, Pennsylvania. Credit: Daderot via Wikimedia Commons NEWS “Today in the modern era of videotape and technology and the way discovery is conducted and trials are…

A state court jury in Fort Lauderdale awarded an eight-figure verdict to the daughter of a deceased patient of the Cleveland Clinic Florida, despite medical records and hospital staff pointing to the health care provider’s innocence on accusations of negligence. Diana Santa Maria of the Law Offices of Diana Santa…

Coinmint LLC, a Puerto Rican cryptocurrency mining company with New York subsidiaries, was denied the lion’s share of attorney fees requested in its long-running litigation with Mintvest Capital Ltd. In an opinion released Tuesday from the Fourteenth Court of Appeals in Houston, a three-judge panel agreed in part with Mintvest’s…

The U.S. Judicial Conference adopted a policy on Tuesday to prevent judge shopping in single-judge divisions, following Democratic lawmakers’ concerns that litigants challenging Biden administration actions strategically file in the divisions to end up with a sympathetic judge hearing their cases. Under the new policy, lawsuits filed in single-judge divisions…

Associate Court of Appeals Justice Jenny Rivera Warns of Missed Opportunities | New York Law Journal Page Printed From: https://www.law.com/newyorklawjournal/2024/03/12/keep-doors-open-court-of-appeals-judge-warns-of-lost-opportunity-for-the-next-generation/ In addressing the crowd, Rivera spoke of her family’s immigrant background and said her mother raised her with the belief that her children, and her children’s children, would always have…