A federal judge in Pennsylvania sided with a class of plaintiffs whose personal information was leaked in a ransomware data breach, sustaining their negligence claim against the medical center that was hacked. In an Aug. 6 opinion, U.S. District Judge Wendy Beetlestone for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, allowed a…

Warren Buffett’s wisdom rings true: “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.” As an expert witness in trademark cases and a veteran brand consultant, I’ve seen the profound truth in these words. However, in…

A West Palm Beach attorney has filed a lawsuit in the Pinellas Circuit Court against attorneys and their law firm accused of assisting a multinational convenience chain in allegedly destroying evidence. Jack Scarola, a partner at Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley, represents the plaintiff, the estate of Sheryll Caballes, in the…

A Macfarlanes team has advised on the €900 million sale of two Societe Generale banking subsidiaries to a prominent Swiss bank. The firm advised Union Bancaire Privée (UBP), a private bank headquartered in Geneva, on its acquisition of Societe Generale’s Swiss private banking activities (Societe Generale Private Banking Suisse) as…

Social mobility, at its core, can be defined as the movement of individuals within or between social strata in a society—usually defined in relation to income, occupation and status. The traditional measures for how successful a society or industry is at ensuring fluid social mobility is family background: what or…

A federal magistrate judge in the Middle District of Florida has recommended the approval of more than $424,000 in attorney fees and $15,000 in litigation expenses for the plaintiff class in a settlement their counsel obtained from BioPlus Specialty Pharmacy Services LLC. “What’s interesting about this case is the lawyers actually…