Edward Taibi spent nearly 17 years at Perelman’s MacAndrews & Forbes Inc., leading more than 20 acquisitions and numerous divestitures.       

Also, new trusts, tax partners move to growing East Coast offices of Womble Bond Dickinson, Kilpatrick Townsend.       

Despite a division in one of the two panels of judges to reinstate religious discrimination lawsuits against a Wisconsin hospital system, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit aligned with its sister court’s decisions over the COVID-19 vaccine mandate.       

Rashida La Lande and the company did not immediately respond to inquiries from Law.com seeking an explanation for her resignation.       

“You can look at us and say we’re a Midwest firm, and why wouldn’t our next locations be Chicago or Cleveland, but in today’s marketplace, from a technological standpoint, the practice has gotten smaller in that respect,” said Baker Sterchi Cowden & Rice managing partner Scott Kreamer.       

Megan Belcher succeeds Natalie Maciolek, who left Kohler in August 2023 after more than a decade with the Wisconsin-based plumbing products manufacturer.       

If we permitted the fee award here to stand, it would mean that counsel could make $7,000 to $9,500 an hour, which we think no reasonable class member would willingly pay to an attorney to help resolve this claim, especially when, as here, dozens of other attorneys were offering their assistance,” said Judge Morris S.

“Mr. Berkheimer suffered catastrophic injuries from a bone contained in a menu item unambiguously advertised as ‘boneless’ at every level of commerce. All we asked is that a jury be able to make a commonsense determination as to whether he should be able to recover for his injuries. But the court’s majority ruled otherwise, simultaneously

Legendary Foods contends an employee of rival Quest Nutrition misrepresented himself in order to gain access to trade secrets used to produce its Tasty Pastry products.       

The San Francisco-based team represents Amazon in two patent-infringement complaints filed by Israel-based BSD Crown, formerly known as Emblaze.