Litigators who have moved to positions inside company legal departments have a trove of insights for Litigation Daily readers. They’ve landed the sorts of positions that lots of litigators grinding away on cases dream of—jobs where you’re interacting regularly with key company decision-makers, shaping litigation strategy, and, hopefully, informing company…

The U.K. Justice Secretary has said he plans to use legislation to counteract last year’s Supreme Court ruling against litigation funding agreements. Alex Chalk’s intervention comes after Alan Bates—the former sub-postmaster and protagonist of ITV’s influential drama on the Horizon scandal—argued in the Financial Times earlier this month that litigation funding…

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Philadelphia’s Med Mal Filings Hit 15-Year High in 2023 | The Legal Intelligencer Page Printed From: https://www.law.com/thelegalintelligencer/2024/01/16/philadelphias-med-mal-filings-hit-15-year-high-in-2023/ Philadelphia City Hall in downtown Philadelphia, on April 3, 2021. Photo: Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM NEWS According to court data, Philadelphia saw a 33% surge in medical malpractice filings in 2023 compared to the…

Mergers are becoming increasingly more common as a resolution for the succession-planning quandary at plaintiffs firms, which don’t regularly restock their ranks in the same fashion as the corporate law firms they face off against in the courtroom. Case in point: three sets of personal injury firms in Pennsylvania announced mergers…

China’s largest athletic apparel brand ANTA Sports is planning to spin off its Finnish sporting equipment subsidiary Amer Sports Inc via an initial public offering in New York. As stated in a filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the U.S., Amer Sports has engaged Davis Polk &…