A Chicago-based national law firm has acquired both a small law firm in Rockford, Ill., and the cross-disciplinary legal and business consulting firm they built.
Updated: A four-lawyer mergers and acquisitions team is exiting Dewey & LeBoeuf for megafirm DLA Piper, bringing to 40 the number of partners known to have left Dewey since the…
Contending that a New York grocery chain’s restrictions on workers’ use of social media violates their collective bargaining rights, United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1500 complained this week to…
Apps for popular social networking sites and games including Facebook, Twitter, Yelp and possibly Angry Birds are accessing confidential personal address book data without user permission, contends a federal suit…
Victorious in a small claims case against telecommunications giant AT&T, which had slowed down his use of his “unlimited” phone plan, a California truck driver has spurned a settlement effort…
A research analyst who made headlines in 2010 when he emailed clients to say he’d refused to wear a wire after being requested to do so by FBI agents for…
Apparently deciding that federal prosecutors overreached by charging a former Goldman Sachs Group computer programmer under a commercial espionage statute for taking source code he developed there with him to…
In a move that could help bring relief to consumers pestered by dozens of robo-calls daily despite putting their phone numbers on the Do Not Call list, the Federal Communications…
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