Are you or your outside law firms using data analytics to identify profitability of individuals or specific matters? Or to support or refute claims and allegations? Or to spot and exploit trends and opportunities? While definitions may vary, these are... Read More

By Steven Levitsky and Paolo Morante “Less is more” may be true in architecture, but in merger clearance law, “less” is still enough to trigger antitrust investigations and litigation and rescission of the whole transaction... Read More

By Jonathan W. Haray , Jeffrey D. Rotenberg and Lindsay R. Barnes In its latest review of the attorney-client and work product privileges in In re: Kellogg Brown & Root, Inc. (“ In re KBR ”), the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit... Read More

By Maggie Craig and Stefanie Jill Fogel | In a much anticipated opinion for the dietary supplement industry and for products making health benefit statements, the District of New Jersey in US v. Bayer has found in favor of Bayer in holding that the... Read More

By: Joseph Domenick Guarino and Kevin Connelly Rosario Juarez worked at AutoZone but now can buy 1 percent of its total market capitalization. Juarez began as a retail salesperson in San Diego in 2000. She was promoted to Parts Sales Manager but... Read More

By George Gigounas, Matt Covington and Christian Orozco California’s Proposition 65, the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, finally has the attention of legislators and the governor’s office and is undergoing key changes... Read More

By Perrie Michael Weiner and Patrick Hunnius A recent Wall Street Journal article – “Activist Investors Often Leak Their Plans to a Favored Few” – focused attention on “activist” investors and stock analysts who... Read More

By Stefanie Jill Fogel , George Gigounas and Rachael E. Yourtz | In food marketing litigation, class certification is a major hurdle for would-be class plaintiffs, but a recent case out in the Central District of California may have lowered the bar... Read More

By George Gigounas and Rachael E. Yourtz A new decision by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal will require the lower court to unseal court documents, revealing the identity of a manufacturer that claims it was falsely implicated in a consumer report... Read More

By: Dr Ludger Giesberts LL.M. and Andreas Tiedge The European Commission is calling for European Union member states to introduce an injunctive and compensatory collective redress mechanism to their national procedural rules by July 26, 2015. In many... Read More

By Todd C. Toral and Greg Young The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in a case likely heralding an increase in the number of qui tam False Claims Act lawsuits, has abrogated prior precedent and lowered the jurisdictional bar for whistleblowers... Read More

The highly anticipated next step in California’s Green Chemistry Initiative (GCI) is the planned April 2014 release of the list of Priority Products that will be first in the spotlight for chemical regulatory scrutiny, triggering compliance requirements... Read More

By Anahit Tagvoryan, Joshua Briones and Anthony Portelli In a recent decision, the Ninth Circuit refused to approve a $10.6 million settlement in a class action accusing Kellogg Co. of falsely advertising the benefits of its Frosted Mini-Wheats cereal... Read More

By Kathy J. Owen The definition of attorney-client privilege is generally consistent across jurisdictions: (1) an attorney, (2) a client, (3) a communication, (4) confidentiality anticipated and preserved and (5) legal advice or assistance being the... Read More

By Perrie Michael Weiner , Anahit Tagvoryan and Esteban Morales Throughout 2013 and into the new year, the plaintiffs’ bar has continued to file a steady stream of privacy-related class action claims. With statutes such as California’s... Read More