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Forget the euphoria that The Careerist's Vivia Chen previously reported feeling over new partner stats at large law firms. The latest figures show that women are still the minority among new partners, after all.Visit The Careerist
In a complaint filed Monday in Pittsburgh federal court, Aluminum Bahrain BSC alleges that it overpaid $420 million for raw materials from 1997 to 2009 because companies affiliated with Alcoa and controlled by a billionaire businessman paid millions in bribes to company executives and Bahrain officials.Visit International News
Less than a week after a free trade agreement between South Korea and the U.S. was finalized, Cleary Gottlieb has announced plans to open a Seoul office, which will initially be staffed by two Hong Kong attorneys. Paul Hastings has also confirmed plans to put in its application to open a South Korea office as soon as regulators unveil the process.Visit International News
New York Law School and John Jay College of Criminal Justice have announced plans to start a new joint degree program in forensic psychology and law. The first of its kind, the program will take four years to complete. Students will finish with an M.A. in forensic psychology from John Jay and a J.D. from New York Law School.Visit lawjobs.com News & Views
A personal injury lawyer has been sued by a former associate who claims he retaliated after she objected to his alleged use of a runner to drum up clients. Milagros Alvarez also alleges that after she left Karim Arzadi's firm, he tried to deter clients from following her by saying she had been passing bad checks.
The founder of a firm devoted to reproductive law is being sued by a former associate for alleged marital and pregnancy discrimination. Lauren Murray charges that Melissa Brisman yanked her off the partnership track while she was on maternity leave and later told her not to return.
The Lewis Tein firm has agreed to pay $400,000 to settle a clawback suit by the bankruptcy trustee representing investors cheated by convicted scam artist Nevin Shapiro. Shapiro hired former U.S. Attorney Guy Lewis and Michael Tein to represent him, first as a government witness and then as a criminal target.
A Brooklyn judge was right to exclude testimony in a personal injury action from experts who said the plaintiff developed cirrhosis by taking Tylenol while offering little clinical data to support their opinion, a unanimous New York appellate panel has ruled.
A federal judge is refusing to allow a man to represent himself in a trafficking case, saying he has tried to manipulate the system by creating false conflicts among his lawyers to delay the case. Gregory Sitzmann was indicted in 2008 on charges he took part in a long-running cocaine distribution conspiracy.
In what plaintiffs lawyers described as a watershed ruling in litigation against the agrochemical company Syngenta, a federal judge has ruled that Swiss parent company Syngenta AG must stand alongside its American subsidiary to face claims that the companies fouled water supplies across the Midwest.
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