On Friday, online notarization startup Legitify announced that it secured €1.5 million (approximately $1.64 million) in a seed funding round l,ed by venture capital firm Verb Ventures, with participation from Enterprise Ireland, Actium Partners and Redbay Ventures. Legitify was founded in Stockholm in 2020 by former financial services professional Aida Lutaj…

The new chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania said his goal as leader is to ensure the judges in his district have the resources they need. “All of the important work that’s done here is being done in the courtrooms by individual judges,…

Expect federal regulators to further escalate scrutiny of the antitrust landscape, experts say, as they unleash novel theories related to labor markets, roll-up deals and even seemingly innocuous exchanges of information within an industry. Jones Day partners Peter Julian and Kevin Hart highlighted those areas Thursday during a Level Legal-sponsored webinar…

Jurors who are empaneled to sit in the impending Manhattan criminal trial of former president Donald Trump will remain anonymous, a New York judge has ruled. Acting Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan on Thursday issued a protective order, saying he found good cause to believe jurors could face harm if…

In a 4-3 opinion, the Ohio Supreme Court majority has remanded a case to an appellate court to determine whether discretionary immunity protects The Ohio State University from a class action lawsuit filed by a student seeking a refund due to the campus’s closure during the initial COVID-19 wave. The justices heard oral arguments…

Amazon and Alma Gourmet are accused of violating California’s Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act, after allegedly failing to warn consumers that their dried morel mushrooms are contaminated with exposure to cadmium and lead. This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar, ALM’s source for immediate alerting on just-filed cases in state…