“If you have talented people and you give them a safe place to work, they’ll thrive, UMG Chief Legal Officer Amy Harris said.       

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius litigator Gregory Fouts has joined Am Law 200 firm Thompson Hine as a litigation partner in Chicago, where he anticipates growing his practice.       

Target had used English bull terriers supplied by California-based Worldwide Movie Animals for 22 years, according to the suit.       

In Bell v. Shelter General Insurance Co., the plaintiff appealed the dismissal of her breach of contract suit, which alleged that Shelter General Insurance Co. breached its automobile insurance policy by failing to pay her sales taxes and fees relating to her purchase of a replacement vehicle.       

On Monday, Jonathan Labukas, a partner with Quarles and Brady in Washington, D.C., filed an appearance for the German-based footwear company in a declaratory action filed by Brooks Sports in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.       

The merger between Sperling & Slater and Kenny Nachwalter will go into effect in December, and the combined firm will be known as Sperling Kenny Nachwalter.       

After consolidating 18 class action complaints surrounding a chemical fire at a BioLab plant in Georgia, a federal judge has appointed 16 attorneys from separate firms in Georgia, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, New York, Tennessee, and Puerto Rico as interim class counsel and committee members.       

In Newman v. Uber Technologies, the court denied attempts to hold Uber responsible for the safety of Lyft drivers, concluding it didn’t owe drivers of a separate company a duty “to protect them from known, dangerous passengers.”       

Richard Peterson is the second partner to jump from Perkins Coie to Stradley Ronon since July, joining Jesse Kanach, who co-chairs the firm’s private investment funds practice.       

The class action complaint filed against Thompson Coburn in the Eastern District of Missouri alleges the firm maintained private information for 305,088 hospital system patients in a “reckless manner.”