• February 12, 2013 | Litigation Daily

    KPMG fails to get judge to dismiss gender discrimination class action

    The gender discrimination class action that Sanford Wittels & Heisler is pursuing on behalf of five former female employees of KPMG is the latest in a string of sexual bias cases that the

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  • June 17, 2002 | New York Law Journal

    Court Rejects Bid to Obtain Workers` Files

    THE IMMIGRATION status of workers accusing clothing manufacturer Donna Karan International Inc. of maintaining sweatshop conditions will not be turned over to the company as requested because of th

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  • July 27, 2006 | National Law Journal

    Movers

    UPDATE: Washington-based Venable has expanded its practice to the California market by integrating two 10-attorney Los Angeles-area firms. The lawyers from Century City's Gorry Meyer Rudd and Be

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  • October 8, 2008 | New York Law Journal

    Corporate and Securities Litigation

    Although the line between primary and secondary violations of §10(b) and Rule 10b-5(b) in private civil litigation has been sharply drawn, particularly after

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  • April 25, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    Circuit Clarifies ERISA Notice Requirements for Benefit Plans

    Workers who are required to provide proof of work performed in order to receive the appropriate credit under a benefit plan must get notice of this requirement in the plan description, the U.S

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  • April 3, 2006 | National Law Journal

    Movers

    New partners Arent Fox (Washington): Baruch Weiss joins the litigation and white-collar defense groups as partner in the firm's Washington and New York offices. A former

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  • May 31, 2012 | New York Law Journal

    Ninth Circuit Fuels Employee Misappropriation Debate

    Traditionally, claims against current and former employees for misappropriating confidential information by, for example, sending confidential company files to a personal e-mail address, have

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  • In Re: Electronic Books Antitrust Litigation, 11 MD 2293

    Publication Date: 2012-05-18
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. District Court, Southern District
    Judge: District Judge Denise Cote
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiffs: Jason Allen Zweig, Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP (NYC), New York, NY. Steve W. Berman, George W. Sampson, Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP (Seattle), Seattle, WA. Jeff D. Friedman, Shana Scarlett, Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP (CA), Berkely, CA. Kit A. Pierson, Emmy L. Levens, Jeffrey B. Dubner, Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC (DC), Washington, DC. John Douglas Richards, Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC, New York, NY.
    for defendant: For Defendant Apple, Inc.: Daniel S. Floyd, Daniel G. Swanson, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Los Angeles, CA. For Defendant HarperCollins Publishers LLC: Shepard Goldfein, Clifford H. Aronson, Paul M. Eckles, C. Scott Lent, Matthew M. Martino, Skadden, Armps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, New York, NY. For Defendants Hachette Book Group, Inc. and Hachette Digital, Inc.: Walter B. Stuart, Samuel J. Rubin, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer US LLP, New York, NY. For Defendant Holtzbrinck Publishers, LLC d/b/a Macmillan: Joel M. Mitnick, Alexandra Shear, Sidley Austin LLP, New York, NY. For Defendant Penguin Group (USA), Inc.: Daniel Ferrel McInnis, David A. Donohoe, Allison Sheedy, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, Washington, D.C. For Defendants Simon & Schuster, Inc. and Simon & Schuster Digital Sales, Inc.: James W. Quinn, Yehudah L. Buchweitz, Weil, Gotshal, & Manges LLP, New York, NY. Helene D. Jaffee, Proskauer Rose LLP, Eleven Times Square, New York, NY. Martha E. Gifford, Law Office of Martha E. Gifford, Brooklyn, NY. *1

    Case Number: 11 MD 2293

    Cite as: In Re: Electronic Books Antitrust Litigation, 11 MD 2293, NYLJ 1202554340567, at *1 (SDNY, Decided May 15, 2012)District Judge Denise Cotep

  • February 21, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Kelley Drye's D.C. Partners Favor Merge With Collier Shannon Partners in the Washington, D.C., office of New York's Kelley Drye & Warren voted Friday to merge with Co

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  • September 27, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    Panel Rejects Malpractice Suit Against Plaintiff's Firms

    A federal appeals court has ruled that two prominent New York plaintiffs' firms are not liable to former clients for failing to sue accounting firm Arthur Andersen in a securities fraud suit s

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