Law

  • Morgan Stanley and a class of financial advisers who settled a compensation dispute with the Wall Street giant tore into attorneys from another similar lawsuit on Wednesday, blasting their “improper and unjustified” request to be awarded fees and costs from the $10 million deal… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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  • The Seventh Circuit ruled on Wednesday that an Illinois federal court was right to deny class certification to an Instagram user who claimed Groupon violated a Prairie State publicity statute when it pulled photos from her account for advertising… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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  • Blank Rome LLP has sued Andrus Wagstaff PC in Pennsylvania federal court, saying it is “beyond argument” that Andrus Wagstaff owes the Philadelphia-based firm nearly half a million dollars in fees related to multidistrict litigation concerning allegedly defective pelvic mesh implants… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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  • The Delaware chancellor ruled Wednesday that Boston Scientific Corp. failed to show that Channel Medsystems Inc. had misrepresented aspects of its business in a way that significantly affected the companies’ $275 million merger, meaning Boston Scientific will have to complete the deal… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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  • The Third Circuit ruled in a precedential opinion Tuesday that a Pennsylvania federal judge erred on several grounds in granting summary judgment to GlaxoSmithKline in a lawsuit over the marketing of the diabetes drug Avandia… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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