While legislative sessions across the country are only just getting started this year, as of Jan 26, 374 bills characterized as anti-LGBT citizens were introduced in legislative bodies nationwide, according to the ACLU. In Georgia, six such bills have carried over into this year’s legislative session from 2023, with one additional…

Lawyers for former president Donald Trump on Monday attacked an independent monitor assigned to overseeing his business, alleging that a recently issued report represented an “abusive process” that failed to provide a factual basis for continued oversight, but “desperately seeks” to create a foundation for further payment of fees. Former…

A major New Jersey personal injury firm is now facing two wrongful-termination lawsuits linked to allegations of sexual harassment and legal malpractice. Alphonse Petracco is the second attorney to claim Ginarte Gonzalez & Winograd of Newark fired him because he allegedly called attention to a mishandled workers’ compensation case and…

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FisherBroyles has expanded in California, adding two Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton intellectual property lawyers in Los Angeles who were attracted to the firm’s low overhead and flexibility, and separately a longtime litigator with a solo practice in Chicago who sought marketing and administrative support. Christopher Schaffer joined FisherBroyles as a…

Glen Weinstein, longtime iRobot legal chief, will be taking over as interim CEO at the Roomba maker in the wake of its failed sale to Amazon. The two companies on Monday said they decided to scrap the $1.7 billion deal, which had been in the works since August 2022, amid strong…