Earlier this month, KISS guitarist Gene Simmons filed an application with the United States Patent and Trademark Office ("USPTO") to register the "devil's horns" hand gesture...

The Supreme Court has given a rare judgment on the court's approach to awarding damages for a "loss of a chance" in a professional negligence claim:

Guernsey lawyers from Mourant Ozannes have assisted in advising BlueCrest on the acquisition by its partners of Man Group’s 25.5% stake in the BlueCrest Group for US$633 million.

As you may know, on December 3rd, as the result of a Texas federal court issuance of a preliminary injunction, temporarily pausing the CTA's enforcement.

Davis Malm announces that Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) has published the sixth edition of "Massachusetts Condominium Law," on September 3. The guide was edited by firm shareholder Samuel "Sandy" B. Moskowitz, who also co-authored several chapters along with colleagues Courtney A. Simmons, Taylor P. Lovejoy and Pamela N. Fourtounis.

It seems obvious that corporations do not waive privilege protection by disclosing privileged communications to their own board members.

A recent healthcare-related federal court settlement serves as a reminder that job titles do not determine overtime eligibility under the Fair Labor Standards Act. In Simmons v. ViaQuest Residential Services...

On July 6, Delaware Bankruptcy Court Judge Craig T. Goldblatt issued a memorandum opinion in the bankruptcy cases of TPC Group, Inc., growing the corpus of recent court decisions tackling "uptiering" and other ...

When acquiring a business, one of the first decisions a buyer will have to make is whether to purchase the target business's stock or purchase its assets.

DQ's Head of Regulatory & Compliance Services, Sinead O'Connor, spoke last week (26 April 2017) at a conference in London on the new corporate criminal offence of failure to prevent...

In this episode of A&O Shearman's Market Horizons podcast series, our structured finance team discusses one of the hottest topics in global finance: credit risk transfer and significant risk transfer trades.

In 2015, Chrimar filed a suit in EDTX against ALE USA, Inc. for infringement of Chrimar's patents relating to ethernet equipment, including U.S. Patent No. 8,155,012 (the '012 patent).

In a case more notable for the fact that it reached Idaho's Supreme Court than the final decision, the lower court's dismissal of the plaintiff waste disposal company's misappropriation of trade secrets claim was affirmed.

On January 31, 2024, the French Supreme Court dismissed the French Patent Office's appeal of the Paris Court of Appeals decision ordering the office to grant Dana-Farber Cancer...

The Court was seized with a claim by a start-up bank for an injunction to protect information alleged to be confidential by reason of its creation during the defendant, solicitor's retainer...

In Westerhof, the Ontario Court of Appeal determined that experts involved for reasons unrelated to the litigation are not caught by the expert report rules as they were not "engaged by or on behalf of a party".

The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals recently rejected a company’s attempt to obtain an early exit from a collective action under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) through an offer of judgment pursuant to Rule 68 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.

The awards ceremony was a tremendous success and was attended by some of the top law firms in Europe.