An Oregon jury awarded more than $29 million to nine individuals who survived three wildfires in 2020. The jury’s award, all compensatory for economic and non-economic damages, is the third against PacifiCorp, parent company of Pacific Power, over 2020 wildfires that charred 2,454 private properties across Oregon.

Good News for 2 Law Firms Accused of Vexatious Litigation | Connecticut Law Tribune Page Printed From: https://www.law.com/ctlawtribune/2024/03/05/good-news-for-2-law-firms-accused-of-vexatious-litigation/ NEWS “The defendants claim that the plaintiff lacked standing to bring its application for a prejudgment remedy because it is predicated on claims that the plaintiff does not have standing to assert,”…

Can Paul Weiss Challenge Kirkland’s Private Capital Dominance in London? | Law.com Page Printed From: https://www.law.com/2024/03/05/a-letter-from-london-the-paul-weiss-experiment-292-177754/ Credit: khwanchai/Adobe Stock COMMENTARY Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison has played Kirkland & Ellis at its own game in London: aggressively hiring a who’s who of top partners, mostly from Kirkland, to build…

Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday moved for a new trial and renewed his motion for judgment as a matter of law in a defamation lawsuit filed by author E. Jean Carroll, weeks after a Manhattan federal jury awarded $83 million to Carroll. Trump’s attorneys Alina Habba and Michael Madaio…

One day before launching his own firm, former Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association President Kenneth Fulginiti filed a lawsuit against his former partner Thomas Duffy Jr. and his former firm, alleging that Duffy defrauded Fulginiti out of millions in compensation throughout his 34-year tenure by understating firm profits, wasting firm revenues on…

FisherBroyles Spinoff Pierson Ferdinand Adds 25 New Partners in Second Month of Existence | The American Lawyer Page Printed From: https://www.law.com/americanlawyer/2024/03/05/fisherbroyles-spinoff-pierson-ferdinand-adds-25-new-partners-in-second-month-of-existence/ Pierson Ferdinand logo The hires, including 16 attorneys from FisherBroyles, bring the head count at the new firm into alignment with the 130 “commitments” touted by co-chairman Michael Pierson…