Plaintiffs Accuse BP of Accessing Confidential Claims

Headlines • Plaintiffs Accuse BP of Accessing Confidential Claims • Comcast Adds Two Antitrust Lobbyists Ahead of Merger Hearing • Ex-Employee Loses Bias Claims Against Hastings College • Gibson Dunn Lodges $32 Million Fee Request in Chevron Case • Government's Insider Trading Net Snags Simpson Thacher Clerk • The Real Problem with Securities Class Actions • Chicago's In-House Legal Departments of the Year • Who You Calling a 'Patent Troll'? Term is Overused, Harm Overblown • Senior Federal Prosecutor in Boston Joins Sidley Austin • D.C. Moves Plaintiffs Accuse BP of Accessing Confidential Claims Lawyers in the $9.2 billion Deepwater Horizon settlement are accusing BP PLC of accessing confidential information about individuals and businesses that have filed claims for oil spill damages. Read More » Comcast Adds Two Antitrust Lobbyists Ahead of Merger Hearing Comcast Corp. has added two top former Capitol Hill antitrust counsels to its lobbying group ahead of a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing next month on the company's plan to merge with Time Warner Cable. Read More » Ex-Employee Loses Bias Claims Against Hastings College A federal judge has dismissed a discrimination lawsuit brought against the University of California Hastings College of the Law by a staffer who was laid off in 2012 as the school slimmed down to adjust to declining applications. Read More » Gibson Dunn Lodges $32 Million Fee Request in Chevron Case The request—made two weeks after Chevron scored its biggest win yet in the case—represents just a tiny fraction of Chevron's legal costs in its battle with Steven Donziger and his Amazon clients. Read More » Sponsor Spotlight: Stop Shipping Profits Out The Door In 'Stop Shipping Profits Out the Door,' law firms will discover how leveraging innovative shipping solutions can improve their bottom line. This white paper explains how web-based tools prevent shipping mistakes, improve accountability, and inform decision-making, ultimately reducing labor costs and unallocatable expenses. Click here for more information. Government's Insider Trading Net Snags Simpson Thacher Clerk In the latest insider trading probe to touch an Am Law 100 firm, the Securities and Exchange Commission and federal prosecutors in New Jersey have charged Steven Metro, a managing clerk at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, along with a Morgan Stanley stockbroker, with taking part in a $5.6 million insider trading scheme that involves some of Simpson Thacher's star private equity clients. Read More » The Real Problem with Securities Class Actions Flaws in determining who's suffered losses and to what extent are the true threat to companies. Read More » Chicago's In-House Legal Departments of the Year The in-house legal teams that are setting the standard in corporate compliance, deal work, diversity and more. Read More » Who You Calling a 'Patent Troll'? Term is Overused, Harm Overblown If big corporations have their way, incentives to spur innovation could disappear. Read More » Senior Federal Prosecutor in Boston Joins Sidley Austin Jack Pirozzolo, a former senior federal prosecutor who helped build cases against accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and mobster James "Whitey" Bulger, has jumped to Sidley Austin. Read More » D.C. Moves Legal industry job changes in our nation's capital. Read More »

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