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Craig Mannarino is a partner at Kralovec Jambois & Schwartz personal injury law firm in Chicago. He has won several multimillion dollar verdicts and settlements for his clients, including a $3.2 million medical malpractice verdict, an $8.6 million verdict for a construction accident, and a $1.75 million settlement for an eye injury. While he does not win every case, his wins tend to be for significantly higher amounts than initially offered by defendants. Medical malpractice cases especially tend to go to trial more than other personal injury claims. Though willing to take cases to trial, Mannarino typically settles three or four cases for each one he tries.
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Pharmaceutical industry in itself has diverse and complex work processes which create an impending need to invite and integrate speedier processes of managing employee data like attendance and leave, which directly affect payroll. Employee Leave Management without automated support can be cumbersome and time consuming. PeopleWorks is a cloud based Human Capital Management solution that has a product suite which can seamlessly integrate your current HR practice and convert it into a fully automated operation.
Craig Mannarino is a partner at Kralovec Jambois & Schwartz personal injury law firm in Chicago. He has won several multimillion dollar verdicts and settlements for his clients, including a $3.2 million medical malpractice verdict, an $8.6 million verdict for a construction accident, and a $1.75 million settlement for an eye injury. While he does not win every case, his wins tend to be for significantly higher amounts than initially offered by defendants. Medical malpractice cases especially tend to go to trial more than other personal injury claims. Though willing to take cases to trial, Mannarino typically settles three or four cases for each one he tries.
Craig Mannarino is a partner at Kralovec Jambois & Schwartz personal injury law firm in Chicago. He has won several multimillion dollar verdicts and settlements for his clients, including a $3.2 million medical malpractice verdict, an $8.6 million verdict for a construction accident, and a $1.75 million settlement for an eye injury. While he does not win every case, his wins tend to be for significantly higher amounts than initially offered by defendants. Medical malpractice cases especially tend to go to trial more than other personal injury claims. Though willing to take cases to trial, Mannarino typically settles three or four cases for each one he tries.
If you believe that your employer is paying you below the state’s minimum required income in California, don’t hesitate to seek the legal advice of a Los Angeles employment attorney Matthew A. Kaufman at the Kaufman Law Firm. A Los Angeles-based law firm has protected employees’ rights of thousands of clients all across California in the past 20 years and helped them win seven- and eight-figure settlements.
All personal injury settlements involving a minor in California require court approval. The process involves completing the appropriate judicial forms, which may be either a full petition or expedited version depending on the settlement amount. The forms are then filed in the county where the minor resides along with any necessary additional filings. Finally, the court will hold a hearing to approve the settlement, where the minor must be present, and issue an order following the hearing to conclude the process.
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This document discusses different stages of "mockupitis", a condition where mockups do not accurately represent the final product. It identifies six stages: stretch fever, textorrhea, multirrhoids, consistentosis, lorem ipsum, and patternopathy. Each stage is defined and recommendations are provided to address the issues. The document also discusses tools for creating mockups and prototypes and emphasizes the importance of testing mockups against real data and user needs.
Pharmaceutical industry in itself has diverse and complex work processes which create an impending need to invite and integrate speedier processes of managing employee data like attendance and leave, which directly affect payroll. Employee Leave Management without automated support can be cumbersome and time consuming. PeopleWorks is a cloud based Human Capital Management solution that has a product suite which can seamlessly integrate your current HR practice and convert it into a fully automated operation.
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The document discusses how to compile LaTeX (.tex) files into PDF files using pdflatex. It recommends tools like pdflatex, acroread, ghostscript, and ghostview. It also provides instructions on writing LaTeX documents, including creating a main document file and chapter files, and using spellcheck. Finally, it discusses LaTeX and pdfLaTeX capabilities like fonts, math symbols, and hyperlinks.
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This lesson plan teaches students how to maintain a conversation. The teacher will use a Prezi presentation to model greeting someone, asking an open-ended question, asking a follow-up question, and making a comment. Students will then practice these skills by filming themselves greeting a peer, asking two follow-up questions using prompt cards, and making a comment in small groups. Finally, students will evaluate videos of each other's conversations. The goal is for students to learn conversation skills like greeting, questioning, and commenting to interact with others.
The document discusses how to write a process essay using chronological order. It recommends introducing the process in the thesis statement and dividing the body into paragraphs for each step. Transitional words and phrases should indicate the time sequence of the steps. The three main steps are to discuss the steps in order, write a thesis stating the process and time order, and use chronological signal words between paragraphs.
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The unemployment rate in British Columbia fell slightly to 7.3% in August 2010, as employment increased by 0.2%. While the unemployment rate for women dropped 0.7 percentage points, the rate for men rose by 0.2 percentage points and has remained higher than for women since November 2008. The summer of 2010 proved difficult for students looking for work, with the average unemployment rate for full-time students aged 15 to 24 being 17.7% between May and August, higher than in 2009 but lower than non-student counterparts.
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As the Boy Scouts of America goes through a contentious bankruptcy, dozens of lawyers are working on the case. Many are charging more than $1,000 an hour.
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Forrester Construction Gives Back: Boys & Girls Club of Greater WashingtonForrester Construction
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The Slumdog Millionaire website uses interactive flash features and is designed like the "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire" theme. It provides additional activities for users to get more involved with the film, such as creating their own quiz. The website also links to social media sites to appeal to a wide audience and drive more engagement with young adults, the key demographic for cinema. "Slumdog Millionaire" received funding from the MEDIA program to support distribution.
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This document discusses personal finance topics like interest rates, borrowing, and exchange rates. It provides examples to demonstrate how interest rates affect savers, borrowers, and businesses. The document also discusses economic factors outside a business's control, such as interest rates, inflation, exchange rates, and government policies, and how these factors can influence business decisions. Learning objectives cover explaining interest and borrowing rates, demonstrating understanding of interest calculations, analyzing economic factors' effects, and defining personal finance terms.
- Requirements to be a model include being between ages 16-23, measuring at least 170cm tall, and wearing a size 34 or 36. However, models were once not admitted if considered "too fat" at sizes now within requirements.
- Spain was one of the first countries to stand against anorexia by promoting models with more curves. Additionally, makeup artists work to prevent emaciated looks from being further emphasized.
- Currently, brands are increasingly choosing to promote plus-size models ranging from sizes 38-40 and standing at least 170cm tall, weighing around 70kg. This contrasts with stricter standards of 10 years ago.
1) The document summarizes a TRIZ competition problem statement about developing new ideas for the future of wheelchairs.
2) It identifies the current main parameters of value (MPVs) for wheelchairs as mobility, comfort, and accessibility.
3) Using S-Curve analysis and the Trend of Engineering System Evolution, it predicts that future wheelchairs could be fully controlled by human brainwaves and have inflatable cushions for increased comfort and foldability.
The document discusses how to compile LaTeX (.tex) files into PDF files using pdflatex. It recommends tools like pdflatex, acroread, ghostscript, and ghostview. It also provides instructions on writing LaTeX documents, including creating a main document file and chapter files, and using spellcheck. Finally, it discusses LaTeX and pdfLaTeX capabilities like fonts, math symbols, and hyperlinks.
1. The document discusses NAMASMARAN (remembering God or the true self) and its role in total stress management.
2. It provides background on Dr. Shriniwas Janardan Kashalikar and his qualifications.
3. The document recommends starting a regular practice of remembering any entity one loves through audible repetition as a way to potentially gain clarity on stress management and self-realization.
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Dental implants courses.for details pls visit www.indiandentalacademy.com ,or call
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Chapter Six White-Collar Crime and the Business CommunityAmids.docxspoonerneddy
Chapter Six White-Collar Crime and the Business Community
Amidst the turmoil and fallout of the Enron scandal that led to the company’s declaration of bankruptcy, a number of former Enron officials faced charges for various offenses. One such official was former CEO Jeffrey Skilling, who was ultimately found guilty of 19 fraud related charges, including conspiracy, insider trading, securities fraud, and making false statements to auditors. As punishment for his misdeeds, the 52-year-old Skilling was sentenced in 2006 to 24 years and 4 months in a federal prison. In addition, he was fined $45 million, which was to be put into a fund to benefit those who had been harmed by Enron’s collapse. While serving his sentence in 2010, he won a minor victory when the U.S. Supreme Court found that instructions to the jury with respect to one of the charges were inaccurate, and threw out the conviction on that charge. The case was then sent back to the trial court judge to determine whether the inaccurate instructions regarding the one charge tainted the convictions on the other charges. In 2013, the case was finally resolved as he was resentenced to 14 years in a federal prison as part of a court ordered reduction and a separate plea agreement with the prosecution. Unfortunately, this story is just one of many recent large and complex white-collar crime scandals. During 2009, Internet crime resulted in losses in the United States of $559.7 million, more than two times as much as in 2008.1 At the end of 2008, the FBI was investigating 545 corporate fraud cases each of which involved investor losses that exceeded $1 billion.2 The Coalition Against Insurance Fraud reports that insurance fraud costs Americans more than $80 billion per year.3
1 Internet Crime Complaint Center, IC3 Annual Internet Crime Report 2009; retrieved May 10, 2010, from National White Collar Crime Center, http://www.nw3c.org/research/site_files .cfm?fileid=d1991bea-8a22-4e54-82f5-678d4d83581a&mode=r.
2 Federal Bureau of Investigation, Financial Crimes Report to the Public Fiscal Year 2008; retrieved May 10, 2010, from http://www.fbi.gov/publications/financial/fcs_report2008/financial_crime_2008.htm#health.
3 Coalition Against Insurance Fraud, “Consumer Information.” Accessed May 10, 2010 at http://www .insurancefraud.org/fraud_backgrounder.htm.
White-collar crimes—crimes committed in a commercial context—occur every day. Collectively, these crimes often result in millions of dollars of damages. In recent years, as corporate crimes such as the ones detailed in Exhibit 6-1
Allen Stanford. Sentence: 110 years
Allen Stanford, 63, was a Texan financier accused of running a $7 billion Ponzi scheme. He had investors invest billions of dollars into his bank, and then spent the money on private jets, yachts, and acres of undeveloped Antiguan land among other expenditures. In December 2008, Stanford International Bank had $88 million in cash, but it fudged its numbers to say it had $1 billion in.
Chapter Six White-Collar Crime and the Business CommunityAmids.docxmccormicknadine86
Chapter Six White-Collar Crime and the Business Community
Amidst the turmoil and fallout of the Enron scandal that led to the company’s declaration of bankruptcy, a number of former Enron officials faced charges for various offenses. One such official was former CEO Jeffrey Skilling, who was ultimately found guilty of 19 fraud related charges, including conspiracy, insider trading, securities fraud, and making false statements to auditors. As punishment for his misdeeds, the 52-year-old Skilling was sentenced in 2006 to 24 years and 4 months in a federal prison. In addition, he was fined $45 million, which was to be put into a fund to benefit those who had been harmed by Enron’s collapse. While serving his sentence in 2010, he won a minor victory when the U.S. Supreme Court found that instructions to the jury with respect to one of the charges were inaccurate, and threw out the conviction on that charge. The case was then sent back to the trial court judge to determine whether the inaccurate instructions regarding the one charge tainted the convictions on the other charges. In 2013, the case was finally resolved as he was resentenced to 14 years in a federal prison as part of a court ordered reduction and a separate plea agreement with the prosecution. Unfortunately, this story is just one of many recent large and complex white-collar crime scandals. During 2009, Internet crime resulted in losses in the United States of $559.7 million, more than two times as much as in 2008.1 At the end of 2008, the FBI was investigating 545 corporate fraud cases each of which involved investor losses that exceeded $1 billion.2 The Coalition Against Insurance Fraud reports that insurance fraud costs Americans more than $80 billion per year.3
1 Internet Crime Complaint Center, IC3 Annual Internet Crime Report 2009; retrieved May 10, 2010, from National White Collar Crime Center, http://www.nw3c.org/research/site_files .cfm?fileid=d1991bea-8a22-4e54-82f5-678d4d83581a&mode=r.
2 Federal Bureau of Investigation, Financial Crimes Report to the Public Fiscal Year 2008; retrieved May 10, 2010, from http://www.fbi.gov/publications/financial/fcs_report2008/financial_crime_2008.htm#health.
3 Coalition Against Insurance Fraud, “Consumer Information.” Accessed May 10, 2010 at http://www .insurancefraud.org/fraud_backgrounder.htm.
White-collar crimes—crimes committed in a commercial context—occur every day. Collectively, these crimes often result in millions of dollars of damages. In recent years, as corporate crimes such as the ones detailed in Exhibit 6-1
Allen Stanford. Sentence: 110 years
Allen Stanford, 63, was a Texan financier accused of running a $7 billion Ponzi scheme. He had investors invest billions of dollars into his bank, and then spent the money on private jets, yachts, and acres of undeveloped Antiguan land among other expenditures. In December 2008, Stanford International Bank had $88 million in cash, but it fudged its numbers to say it had $1 billion in ...
CASE BRIEF 12.1 Yale Diagnostic Radiology v. Estate of .docxjasoninnes20
CASE BRIEF 12.1
Yale Diagnostic Radiology v. Estate of Fountain
838 A.2d 179 (Conn. 2003)
FACTS: In March, 1996, Harun Fountain was shot in the back of the head at point-blank range by
a playmate. As a result of his injuries, including the loss of his right eye, Fountain required
extensive lifesaving medical services from a variety of medical services providers, including Yale
Diagnostic Radiology (plaintiff). The expenses at Yale totaled $17,694. Yale billed Vernetta
Turner-Tucker (Tucker), Fountain's mother, but the bill went unpaid and, in 1999, Yale obtained
a judgment against her. In January, 2001, all of Tucker's debts were discharged in bankruptcy,
including the Yale judgment.
Tucker filed suit against the boy who had shot Fountain. However, Fountain succumbed to his
injuries, passing away before the case was settled. The settlement on the tort case was placed into
probate court as part of Fountain’s estate. Tucker was the administrator of Fountain’s estate.
When the settlement was deposited, Yale asked the probate court for payment of its $17,694
judgment from the estate.
DECISION BELOW: The Probate Court denied the motion. Yale appealed to the trial court, and
the trial court held for Yale. Tucker and the estate (defendants) appealed.
ISSUE ON APPEAL: Can minors be held liable for necessaries when their parents cannot or refuse
to pay?
DECISION: . . . we conclude that Connecticut recognizes the doctrine of necessaries. We further
conclude that, pursuant to the doctrine, the defendants are liable for payment to the plaintiff for
the services rendered to Fountain.
When a medical service provider renders necessary medical care to an injured minor, two contracts
arise: the primary contract between the provider and the minor's parents; and an implied in law
contract between the provider and the minor himself. The primary contract between the provider
and the parents is based on the parents' duty to pay for their children's necessary expenses, under
both common law and statute. Such contracts, where not express, may be implied in fact and
generally arise both from the parties' conduct and their reasonable expectations. The primacy of
this contract means that the provider of necessaries must make all reasonable efforts to collect
from the parents before resorting to the secondary, implied in law contract with the minor.
The present case illustrates the inequity that would arise if no implied in law contract arose between
Fountain and plaintiff. Fountain received, through a settlement with the boy who caused his
injuries, funds that were calculated, at least in part, on the costs of the medical services provided
to him by the plaintiff in the wake of those injuries. This fact further supports a determination of
an implied in law contract under the circumstances of the case.
Tucker had four years to pay the plaintiff's bill for the services rendered to ...
Primary global, full tilt poker, bp, bof a in court newsvincentjohn174
A former executive at expert- networking firm Primary Global Research LLC, James Fleishman, was found guilty of helping pass confidential information to fund managers as part of an insider-trading scheme. Fleishman, of Santa Clara, California, was found guilty yesterday by a Manhattan federal jury of conspiracy to commit securities fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud. The jury deliberated for about six hours before reaching a verdict. U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff set sentencing for Dec. 21. Until then, Fleishman, who faces as long as 25 years in prison, remains free on bond. He and his lawyer, Ethan Balogh, declined to comment as they left the courthouse. “We had enough evidence to find the defendant guilty of both counts,” said jury foreman Ben Stein, who works in the information-technology sector of a financial-services business. “It was not easy, but we had lots of evidence.” Since November, 15 people have been charged by federal prosecutors in the office of Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara in a probe of expert networkers and hedge fund managers. Twelve have pleaded guilty, including Noah Freeman, a former portfolio manager with SAC Capital Advisors LP, and Samir Barai, the founder of Barai Capital Management LP. Fleishman, 42, was the second to go to trial. Winifred Jiau, a former Primary Global consultant who was convicted at trial in June of securities fraud and conspiracy, is scheduled to be sentenced today in Manhattan federal court. Prosecutors said Fleishman obtained and passed confidential data from technology company employees who were moonlighting as consultants for Mountain View, California-based Primary Global. The secret tips were given to fund managers who paid Primary Global for consultation calls, prosecutors said.
The case is U.S. v. Nguyen, 11-cr-32, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York (Manhattan).
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Full Tilt Paid Board With Players’ $440 Million, U.S. Says Full Tilt Poker paid board members more than $440 million using funds it had told its online poker players would be available to them for withdrawal at any time, U.S. prosecutors said. Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara’s office yesterday asked U.S. District Judge Leonard B. Sand for permission to add the new allegations to a civil forfeiture case first filed against Full Tilt, PokerStars, Absolute Poker and other businesses in April. “Full Tilt insiders lined their own pockets with funds picked from the pockets of their most loyal customers while blithely lying to both players and public alike about the safety and security of the money deposited with the company,” Bharara said in statement. The forfeiture action parallels criminal charges also brought by Bharara against the poker companies and 11 people, alleging bank fraud, money laundering and illegal gambling. Prosecutors said that after the U.S. enacted a law in 2006 barring banks from processing payments to offshore gambling websites, Full Tilt, PokerStars
David Campbell earned law degrees from the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law and the University of Windsor Faculty of Law through a joint JD/LLB program in 2004. This allowed him to be licensed to practice law in both the U.S. and Canada. After graduating and passing both the Michigan and Ontario bar exams, Campbell worked at the Toronto law firm McCarthy Tétrault and then returned to Bowman and Brooke in Troy, Michigan as an associate attorney. Campbell's dual licensure allows him to represent corporate clients in product liability, commercial litigation, and other cases on both sides of the U.S.-Canada border.
The document discusses the differences between mediation confidentiality and privilege. While most states have strong mediation privilege laws, federal courts take differing approaches. Some federal district courts recognize a mediation privilege based on local rules, while circuit courts have declined to adopt a uniform federal privilege. This can lead to situations where materials protected by state privilege laws may be disclosed in federal court or vice versa. The lack of uniformity creates uncertainty around mediation confidentiality when cases involve both state and federal issues or proceedings.
This new publication, Cyber Claims Insight from Aon Benfield’s Cyber Practice Group, empowers readers with the resources and tools they need to understand the cyber landscape, including legal trends, claims and insurance coverage disputes.
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Waffles and Workers’ Rights (EEOC v. Waffle House, p. 81)
Read about arbitration law in Chapter 4 and Case 4-3 in your textbook, and do some online research on the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). Then discuss the following:
What is the EEOC’s role in regard to business? Does the court say that the EEOC trumps the arbitration contract between the employee and the employer? If so, why? What are the pros and cons of arbitration agreements? Do you think arbitration agreements between big companies and low wage earners who are uninformed about the law are truly fair? If you have any experiences at work with discrimination policies or EEOC trainings, share those experiences.
Dogs and Dream Therapists (Hagen v. Field, pp. 65 (question 7), and Jones v. Williams, p. 43 (question 9)
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The plaintiff, a Texas resident, and the defendants, Colorado residents, were cat breeders who met at a cat show in Colorado. Subsequently, the plaintiff sent two cats to the defendants in Colorado for breeding and sent a third cat to them to be sold. A dispute over the return of the two breeding cats arose, and the plaintiff filed suit against the defendants in Texas. The defendants alleged that the Texas court lacked personal jurisdiction over them because they did not have minimum contacts within the state of Texas.
Read both cases and discuss legal issues for the court, focusing on in each. Summarize what factors the court looks at in determining where a case can be brought. What was the decision in each case, and do you think the decision was correct? Why or why not?
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EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION v. WAFFLE HOUSE, INC.
UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT 534 U.S. 279 (2002)
All employees of Waffle House had to sign an agreement requiring employment disputes to be settled by binding arbitration. After Eric Baker suffered a seizure and was fired by Waffle House, he filed a discrimination charge with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) alleging that his discharge violated the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) under Title VII. The EEOC subsequently filed an enforcement suit, to which Baker was not a party, alleging that Waffle House's employment practices, including Baker's discharge “because of his disability,” violated the ADA. The EEOC sought the following: an injunction to “eradicate the effects of [Waffle House's] past and present unlawful employment practices”; specific relief designed to make Baker whole, including back pay, reinstatement, and compensatory damages; and punitive damages.
Waffle House sought to dismiss the EEOC's suit and compel arbitration because of the binding arbitration clause signed by Baker. The District Court denied Waffle House's motion to dismiss. The Fourth Circuit agreed with the District Court that the arbitration agreement between Baker and Waffle House did not foreclose ...
Donna M. Welch is a partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP who focuses on complex commercial litigation. She received her JD from DePaul University College of Law, where she was Editor-in-Chief of the DePaul Law Review. Ms. Welch has over 25 years of experience litigating high-stakes cases involving breach of fiduciary duty, fraud, and other business issues. She has served as lead counsel in numerous jury trials and arbitrations, obtaining large verdicts and settlements for clients such as General Motors, BP, and Stericycle. Ms. Welch is also involved in pro bono work and has received awards for her commitment to public service.
This document provides a summary of the Daily Business Review's "Most Effective Lawyers in South Florida" special report. It recognizes over 70 attorneys in 13 categories for their work over the past year. The document discusses notable achievements and cases in each category, including litigation related to the Scott Rothstein Ponzi scheme, medical malpractice arbitration, an appellate case involving a foreign insurance company, and a class action settlement for homeowners with toxic Chinese drywall. It provides an overview of the selection process for the attorneys recognized in the report.
Long-term care litigation against nursing homes and other elder care facilities has increased in Pennsylvania over the last decade. Several factors have contributed to this rise, including more favorable case law for plaintiffs, increased advertising by plaintiff law firms, and the growth of large corporate chains operating most nursing homes. However, defense attorneys argue that punitive damages are overused in these cases and arbitration agreements can provide a more efficient means for dispute resolution. There is ongoing legal debate around the validity and use of pre-injury arbitration contracts in the long-term care context.
This document provides biographical information about Donna Doblick, including her education, areas of legal practice, experience, honors and awards. Some key details:
- She is an appellate attorney and counsel at Reed Smith LLP based in Pittsburgh.
- Her appellate practice focuses on complex commercial litigation, class action defense, and questions of foreign law. She has over 20 years of litigation experience at both the trial and appellate levels.
- She received her law degree from the University of Chicago Law School and clerked for Judge Frank H. Easterbrook of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
- Her notable cases include successfully defending antitrust, business tort, and fraud claims on behalf of
Informal Discovery Simple Strategies for Cost-Effective LitigationAmy Morgan
The document discusses strategies for informal discovery that can help reduce litigation costs. Informal discovery involves obtaining factual information without formal requests to opposing counsel and includes searching online court dockets, secretary of state websites, social media sites, and conducting fee-based searches and witness interviews. Examples are provided that show how informal discovery uncovered crucial information that altered cases, such as finding contradictory testimony or establishing a party was not properly registered. Keeping discovery costs low while still obtaining necessary information benefits budget-conscious clients.
The memorandum discusses the principle of quantum meruit as it applies to an attorney's right to compensation after being discharged from a case. McDonald and Fontana represented Ida Ipana in a personal injury suit against Shipley Supermarket but were subsequently discharged. Quantum meruit allows an attorney to recover the reasonable value of services rendered to prevent unjust enrichment. Relevant Illinois statutes and case law establish that McDonald and Fontana would likely be entitled to a percentage of any recovery or could place a lien on the case until their fees are resolved.
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SAN FRANCISCO Former Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers partner Ellen Pao is not the only
person who lost when a California jury rejected her claims of gender discrimination against the
venture capital firm. Her lawyers also missed out on a payday that could have reached into the
millions of dollars.
Pao sought about $16 million in lost wages and tens of millions more in punitive damages in a
lawsuit that captivated Silicon Valley. Had Pao won on any of her claims, under California law her
legal team, led by longtime San Francisco employment lawyers Alan Exelrod and Therese Lawless,
could have sought all its fees from Kleiner.
Friday's result underscores how risky trials can be for the lawyers who represent employees, who
generally do not bill by the hour. They are usually paid either a percentage of any settlement, or by
seeking fees from the defendant if they win at trial.
Pao's 2012 lawsuit was just one among several that have been filed against Silicon Valley tech
companies over gender, and employment lawyers watched the case particularly closely, filling the
seats of the courtroom.
Earlier in March, Lawless filed a separate lawsuit against Facebook Inc over allegations an
employee was sexually harassed and faced gender discrimination.
A 2013 employment trial in the same San Francisco Superior Court as the Pao case provides some
guidance about how much her lawyers could have recovered had the verdict gone her way.
While the cases are different, the rules for collecting fees would have been similar in the Pao case,
which ended on Friday with the jury clearing Kleiner of gender discrimination and retaliating
against Pao for suing the firm.
Exelrod and Lawless were not immediately available to comment on fees.
In the 2013 case, a woman who sued a Catholic school for gender and age discrimination went to
trial for more than a month in San Francisco Superior Court. Among several claims, the jury sided
with her on an unpaid vacation time claim, and awarded her about $16,000 in damages.
After the verdict her attorney, John McGuinn, told the judge in court filings that he worked 1,635
hours on the case from his initial meeting with the client through
http://www.loc.gov/law/help/guide.php verdict, and listed his rate at $750 per hour. One of his
associates worked 794 hours at $395 per hour.
At those rates, the total amount for McGuinn's team would have topped $1.5 million, though he
sought less because of the narrow win. The judge ultimately awarded about $618,000 in fees and
costs, and the case has been appealed.
McGuinn could not immediately be reached for comment.
2. Exelrod, Lawless and McGuinn all have similarly long experience as employee attorneys in San
Francisco. In court filings, McGuinn said one of Exelrod's partners has been awarded $775 per hour
in another wage case.
Kleiner's lead lawyer Lynne Hermle, of the Orrick Herrington Sutcliffe law firm, billed about $725
per hour in 2011, according to court filings in a separate case.
The law likely would not allow the venture capital firm Las Vegas lawyers to seek attorneys fees
from Pao, who has the right to appeal the verdict. Kleiner, however, could seek reimbursement for
costs associated with the lawsuit, such as expert witness payments, deposition expenses and court
filing fees.
A Kleiner spokeswoman declined to comment on whether it would seek costs from Pao.
Trials are often well produced multi-media events, with videos, slide presentations and thousands of
pages of transcripts, and the Pao case was no exception.
James Brown, who represented the Catholic school at trial and was not involved in the Pao case, said
costs in the Pao case could be between $100,000 and $200,000, depending on the number of
depositions.
(Editing by Peter Henderson and Grant McCool)
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