Womble Bond Dickinson and UK firm BDB Pitmans had entered early merger discussions last year(Reuters) – Global law firm Womble Bond Dickinson and smaller UK firm BDB Pitmans have abandoned merger talks after “extensive discussions,” the firms said in a joint statement Wednesday.
“Both firms have decided that the best path forward is to remain independent of each other,” the statement said. The law firms said in October that they were in early talks to merge.
The firms said through a spokesperson they would not provide additional comments.
It is not uncommon for firms to start discussions that do…
Published: Feb. 1, 2023 at 5:40 AM HST|Updated: 15 hours agoExpansion Marks Fifth New Office Latitude Has Launched in Last 12 Months
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Feb. 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Today Latitude, a fast-growing legal services company that specializes in providing former Big Law and in-house attorneys for contract engagements nationwide, announced that former Am Law 100 law firm partner Clark Goodman has opened the company’s newest office in Charlotte. Previously, Goodman was the Managing Partner of Dickinson’s Womble Bonds Charlotte office.Clark Goodman, Founder and Partner of Latitude’s Charlotte Office(PRNewswire)
Latitude’s Charlotte office, the fifth the company has launched…
A Central District of California court recently denied a defendant’s motion for summary judgment where the defendant argued that the plaintiff’s claims for trade secret misappropriation were barred by the applicable statute of limitations. The court determined that the statute of limitations did not bar the plaintiff’s claim because a reasonable jury could find that the plaintiff did not have reason to believe that all of the elements of its trade secret misappropriation claim were met prior to the bar date. In particular, the court concluded that a reasonable jury could find that the plaintiff did not have reason to…
POJOKSATU.id, JAKARTA – Di tengah sengkarutnya permasalahan hukum yang telah dialami selama bertahun-tahun, pihak Sientje Mokoginta Cs kini bisa bernapas sedikit lebih lega.
Pasalnya, Mahkamah Agung melalui Putusan bernomor 4095 K/PDT/2022, tertanggal 15 Desember 2022 telah memenangkan pihaknya dalam perkara gugatan perdata melawan Corry Mokoginta Cs.
Kuasa hukum Sientje Cs, Jaka Maulana dari LQ Indonesia Law Firm mengatakan bahwa perkara kliennya itu bermula dari pada Maret 2021.
Di mana pada saat itu pihak Corry Mokoginta Cs mengajukan gugatan terhadap Sientje Mokoginta Cs ke Pengadilan Negeri Kotamobagu.Dalilnya, pihak Sientje Mokoginta Cs dianggap telah melakukan perbuatan melawan hukum karena telah membatalkan…
NEW YORK, July 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Pomerantz LLP announced that a class action lawsuit has been filed against Canopy Growth Corporation (“Canopy Growth” or the “Company”) CGC, and certain officers. The class action, filed in the United States District Court for the Central District of Californianand docketed under 23-cv-04905, is on behalf of a class consisting of all persons and entities other than Defendants that purchased or otherwise acquired Canopy Growth securities between June 1, 2021 and May 10, 2023, inclusive (the “Class Period”). Plaintiff pursues claims against the Defendants under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (“Exchange Act”).…
As we previously reported, Minnesota will soon become only the fourth state (along with California, Oklahoma and North Dakota) to ban non-competitors.
The state’s new law renders void and unenforceable all covenants not to compete entered by employees or independent contractors on or after July 1, 2023. The only exceptions are noncompetitive agreements relating to the sale or dissolution of a business.A “covenant not to compete” is defined in the statute to exclude non-disclosure and non-solicitation provisions, and the law states that no other provisions in an agreement containing a non-compete shall be affected. The law also prohibits employers…
NEW YORK, July 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ —WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, continues to investigate potential securities claims on behalf of shareholders of Comerica Incorporated (NYSE: CMA) resulting from allegations that Comerica may have issued materially misleading business information to the investing public.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Comerica securities you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement. The Rosen Law Firm is preparing a class action seeking recovery of investor losses.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the prospective class action,…
A federal judge on Wednesday barred a Little Rock attorney and the law firm he heads from practicing in federal court in the Eastern District of Arkansas for two years, citing their efforts to collect what the judge described as inflated attorneys fees in a class-action lawsuit settlement and drag out litigation over the issue.
The order by US District Judge Billy Roy Wilson sanctioning attorney Josh Sanford and the Sanford Law Firm was followed almost immediately by a notice of appeal.
The law firm won a class-action lawsuit filed in 2018 on behalf of Anthony Vines and Dominique Lewis,…