Two U.S. firms, Sidley Austin and Squire Patton Boggs, are leading on the takeover of West Bromwich Albion football club by a Florida-based father-son duo, in the latest example of U.S. firms capitalising on the lucrative U.K. football market. Bilkul Football, a company owned by Florida-based entrepreneur Shilen Patel and…

Pinsent Masons has begun outlining the steps it expects to take in the wake of the inquest into the death of Vanessa Ford, a senior equity partner at the firm who, according to a coroner’s inquest last week, underwent an “acute mental health crisis” before her death in September. The inquest determined that…

Kline & Specter has shaken off allegations that it wrongfully fired ex-associate Thomas Bosworth and retaliated against him with a frivolous lawsuit. In a pair of orders entered last week, Judge Abbe Fletman of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas dismissed several claims and counterclaims Bosworth lodged against Kline & Specter, but…

A cosmetic center and a doctor are facing a wrongful-death lawsuit filed Monday in state court in Miami over a fatal Brazilian “butt lift” surgery. Stephen Cain and Michael Levine, partners at Stewart Tilghman Fox Bianchi & Cain in Miami, represent the plaintiff, Andre Holder, the personal representative of the…

Texas AG Sues 6 School Districts for “Illegal” Anti-Voucher Electioneering | Texas Lawyer Page Printed From: https://www.law.com/texaslawyer/2024/03/04/the-chutzpah-of-texas-governor-and-ag-6-lawsuits-filed-over-elections/ A Bexar County Elections Department official demonstrates use of a voting machine. Courtesy: Bexar County “It is certainly not unusual for Attorney General Paxton to bully public educators to promote his personal agenda,”…

Four of the most senior members of Twitter’s past C-suite are suing Elon Musk for more than $128.6 million, claiming the new owner of the social media giant schemed to bilk them out of their contractual severance to save $200 million after buying the site back in 2022. “Because Musk…