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• Too Embarrassed to Make Layoffs, Lawyer Stole $9.3M, Gets 7 Years

  —ABA Journal Top Stories

  Too embarrassed to admit that he'd suffered financial reverses and make layoffs, a well-known Arkansas plaintiffs attorney instead admittedly stole $9.3 million from client trust funds he controlled to keep his law firm going. “I built several businesses. I went through a cash-flow crisis,” Steven Eugene Cauley told U.S. District' [...]

  Posted: November 23, 2009, 4:52pm EST
  

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• Defendant Argues Law Firm’s YouTube Video Amounted to Defamation

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  A company accused in a class action lawsuit of selling a dietary supplement that doesn’t live up to its memory claims has turned the tables on the plaintiffs’ firm, claiming its lawyers gave interviews and posted a YouTube video with defamatory statements. On Friday, the class action defendant, Brain Research [...]

  Posted: November 23, 2009, 10:34am EST
  

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• Obama Administration Supports Investors' Securities Fraud Lawsuits Against Merck

  —Stock Broker Fraud Blog

  Taking the side of investors who are suing Merck for securities fraud, the Obama Administration filed an amicus brief last month arguing that the plaintiffs did not wait too long to file their complaints against the drug manufacturer. use. The painkiller drug was taken off the market in [...]

  Posted: November 19, 2009, 12:37am EST
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• Chevron Sues Plaintiffs Lawyer for $4M, Alleges Malicious Prosecution

  —ABA Journal Top Stories

  After making headlines several months ago by posting a video on YouTube to bolster its defense of an Ecuador-based environmental mass tort case, Chevron is again trying an unusual litigation tactic in a closely related case. The company has sued a plaintiffs attorney for $4 million in federal court in [...]

  Posted: November 17, 2009, 5:51pm EST
  

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• Convicted Germans Seek to Edit History in Suit Against Wikipedia

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  Two Germans convicted of killing an actor in 1990 are suing Wikipedia’s parent in an effort to force the online, publicly edited encyclopedia to remove their names from an English-language entry about their crime. The plaintiffs, Wolfgang Werlé and Manfred Lauber, say their right to privacy should prevail, the New [...]

  Posted: November 13, 2009, 8:58am EST
  

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• Exploding Text-Harrassment Cases Create Pitfalls for Defense Attorneys

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  As supervisors increasingly make objectionable comments to employees via text messages, resulting harassment cases over after-hours comments no longer are based simply on "he said, she said" evidence. But this seeming bonanza of proof for plaintiffs lawyers is surrounded by potential pitfalls for defense attorneys, according to a Texas Lawyer [...]

  Posted: November 06, 2009, 6:43pm EST
  

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• Plaintiffs Lawyers to Earn Up to $28M in Risky Wal-Mart Wage & Hour Litigation

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  Although Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has agreed to pay as much as $85 million to settle 39 consolidated wage-and-hour class action lawsuits involving more than 3 million employees, it wasn't at all clear when the litigation began to unfold that the case would be a big winner. Now a hot litigation' [...]

  Posted: November 04, 2009, 3:26pm EST
  

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• Prominent Houston Lawyer John O’Quinn Dies in SUV Accident

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  Updated: Prominent Houston plaintiffs lawyer John O’Quinn died Thursday morning in an SUV accident. O’Quinn was one of two people riding in a black Suburban west of downtown Houston when the vehicle crossed a median, oncoming traffic lanes and another median, then slammed into a tree, the Houston Chronicle reports. [...]

  Posted: October 29, 2009, 1:38pm EDT
  

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• AN UNFORSEEN IMPACT OF AN SEC COMPLAINT: NO D&O COVERAGE

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  In many instances, the impact of the allegations in an SEC enforcement action reach beyond the immediate claims in the suit. Rivelli v. Twin City Fire Ins. Co., Case No. 08-1480 (10th Cir. Decided Oct. 26, 2009) is a case where the plaintiffs were not only named as defendants in [...]

  Posted: October 28, 2009, 10:52pm EDT
  by T. Gorman

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• Ex-Thelen Employees Try Novel Theory in Suit Against Hiring Firms

  —ABA Journal Top Stories

  Former Thelen employees are relying on a novel legal theory in their $18 million lawsuit against five law firms that hired some lawyers from the dissolved law firm. The plaintiffs claim the hiring law firms purchased a portion of Thelen’s business, and are obligated to pay wages due under the [...]

  Posted: October 27, 2009, 9:05am EDT
  

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