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Don't Miss These August Class-Action Settlement Deadlines

Whether your location and user profile data were stolen on Meta (Facebook), you never got your full refund from SeatGeek for a canceled event, or DirecTV called you without your consent, you might jus...

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Aug 2023

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Beyonce Is Fighting Her $2.7M Tax Bill In Court

(Photo by Kevin Winter/BET/Getty Images for BET)Last April, the public learned that superstar Beyonce underwent an IRS tax audit. At the end, the IRS proposed that she pays over $2.7 million for taxes...

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Jul 2023

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Musk, Tesla board to return $735M after being sued for overpaying themselves

Elon Musk, Larry Ellison, and other current and former Tesla board members agreed to return over $735 million to settle a shareholder lawsuit that alleged Tesla directors "grossly" overpaid themselves...

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Jul 2023

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Claim Your Share of This Google Class Action Settlement

Alphabet, Google's parent company, is worth $1.6 trillion. Thanks to a recently settled class action lawsuit, you can take a tiny fraction of Google's money for yourself. It's not for nothing, of cour...

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Jun 2023

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'Legal Tech Lists': 5 Lawyer Tropes Upended By Legal Tech (Remote Litigation Edition)

[photo1]In the past few weeks we've identified, analyzed, and rectified 10 lawyer tropes (see here and here), perpetuated by cultural staples but abruptly upended by legal technology. Remote litigatio...

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Jun 2023

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Chief Twit Elon Musk loses appeal to be able to tweet about Tesla unchecked

Elon Musk lost another bid to end a 2018 settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that requires oversight of some of his Tesla-related tweets.The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals i...

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May 2023

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3 Takeaways From A Patent Pretrial Order In Google v. Sonos Case

[photo1]The eyes of the patent world -- and many on Wall Street as well -- are focused on Judge William Alsup's downtown San Francisco courtroom. The reason for all the fuss? The long-awaited patent ...

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May 2023

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What People Are Getting Wrong This Week: The Fox News Settlement

Last week, Fox News and Dominion Voting Systems reached a settlement in a landmark defamation case stemming from the 2020 election, and the immediate reaction from the online communities (Twitter and ...

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Apr 2023

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Greycroft closes on over $1 billion across new funds

Greycroft, the self-styled "seed-to-growth" venture capital firm, today announced the closing of over $1 billion in capital commitments across new funds.The firm's two flagship vehicles, Greycroft Par...

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Apr 2023

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Fox Wox

(Photo by Kevin Hagen/Getty Images)Why am I not surprised that Dominion v. Fox settled? Are you?You shouldn't be. The jury was empaneled and probably looked daggers at everyone for being chosen. It al...

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Apr 2023

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Morning Docket: 04.14.23

(Photo by Aude Guerrucci-Pool/Getty Images)* Somehow the Clarence Thomas ethical morass got worse. [ProPublica]* Biglaw firms consider recapturing the magic of lockdown profits by severely curtailing ...

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Apr 2023

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More Judges Should Hold Settlement Conferences

[photo1]Last week, I wrote an article about how some high-priced mediators may not be worth the money in many cases and how free and discounted mediators are perfectly sufficient in most circumstances...

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Apr 2023

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Klaus Teuber made Catan, and it changed the world's expectations for board games

I was in my early 30s when I first played The Settlers of Catan. I had been at a bar with a small group one freezing winter night in 2012 in Buffalo, New York. One of us, eager to share his recent obs...

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Apr 2023

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SEC gets $35 million settlement in Activision misconduct disclosure case

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In an administrative order, the SEC said that complaints of workplace misconduct at Activision Blizzard "were not collected or analyzed for disclosure purposes" sinc...

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Feb 2023

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The Grand Old Duke Of York, He Had Ten Thousand Men. And Not One Of Them Able To Make Him See Reason.

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There are dumber ways to waste your multimillion dollar inheritance than attempting to blow up an ironclad legal settlement. But not a lot dumber.

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Jan 2023