New York and Boston Firms Win $43.1M in Tobacco and Asbestos Suits
New York law firm and Shepard Law of Massachusetts recently won a significant jury verdict in Boston in a historic lung cancer trial involving both tobacco and asbestos claims. The case dated back to June 2015 when the firms filed suit on behalf of Louis E. Summerlin...
Hagens Berman Among Firms to Secure $240M Proposed Settlement in USC Gynecologist Sex Abuse Class Actions
Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP (HBSS) recently announced a $240 million proposed settlement in a class-action lawsuit filed by hundreds of current and former students against the University of Southern California and its former gynecologist, Dr. George Tyndall, for...
Dallas IP Lawyer Wins Federal Defense Verdict for X-Ray Educators
Dallas solo practitioner Wendy B. Mills secured a defense verdict for XRC LLC, which operates the website CE4RT.com, offering continuing education credits for radiologic technologists. Following a three-day trial that ended on Sept. 26, Mills convinced a federal jury...
Panish Shea & Boyle Wins $6.3M for Auto Accident Victim
Panish Shea & Boyle LLP attorneys David Rudorfer and Tom Schultz obtained a $6.3 million jury verdict for the family of a Southern California man who suffered fatal injuries as a result of being struck by a vendor vehicle at the Whittier Uptown Association Farmers...
Pryor Cashman Represents Product Design Co. In $375M Sale to DSW
Pryor Cashman represented the Camuto Group, a product design and brand development organization in an agreement to sell its operations to North American footwear and accessories retailer DSW Inc. for approximately $375 million. Camuto Group is best known for the Vince...
Kramer Dillof Livingston & Moore Partner Wins $45.2M Injury Award for NY Philanthropist
Over the summer, Kramer Dillof Livingston & Moore (KDLM) secured one of the largest catastrophic injury verdicts of the year in Manhattan Supreme Court in New York. Partner Thomas Moore represented a philanthropist whose life nearly ended when she was struck in...
NoCal Firms Announce $17 Million Settlement in Vizio Smart TV Class Action
Gibbs Law Group and Cotchett, Pitre, & McCarthy LLP (CPM), both with offices in San Francisco, Calif., jointly announced last week that a proposed settlement was reached in a nationwide Vizio class action lawsuit over allegations that Vizio secretly tracked what...
Greenberg Gross and Robinson Calcagnie Secure $17 Million Class Action Settlement Approval for Real Estate Law Violation
Lawyers from Robinson Calcagnie, Inc. and Greenberg Gross secured final approval of a major settlement in Southern California in September on behalf of consumers in a class action against PHH Corporation and Realogy Holdings Corp. and their subsidiaries. The $17...
Greenberg Gross Secures Defense Verdict, Spoiling Dairy Empire’s Lawsuit
Last week, Southern California business litigation firm Greenberg Gross LLP obtained a jury verdict in favor of Buchalter APC, an Am Law 200 law firm, in a multimillion-dollar lawsuit brought by the heirs to the Alta-Dena dairy empire. The complete defense verdict,...
Labaton Sucharow and Getnick & Getnick’s Latest Settlement Makes NY Whistleblower History
Getnick & Getnick LLP and Labaton Sucharow LLP have secured a major settlement in the second stage of the largest-ever tax whistleblower recovery in New York state history. New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood announced the $30 million settlement today. It...
TX Firm Gregor Cassidy Secures $1 Million Software Settlement for Software-Maker
In early September, Tatsoft LLC announced it reached a significant settlement agreement with Schneider Electric Software LLC and other parties that ended a long-term contractual dispute and lawsuit, by Tatsoft accepting a substantial payment and protection on legal...
McKool Smith Leads Charge in Costly Key Man Insurance Policy Verdict
McKool Smith has secured a $10 million verdict on behalf of Apex Parks Group ("Apex") against Protective Life Insurance Company ("Protective"). The plaintiff, Apex Parks Group is a privately held operating company based in Aliso Viejo, California that owns and...