NBA star Zion Williamson has more to celebrate than his recently announced five-year maximum rookie contract extension with the New Orleans Pelicans, worth up to $239 million. Williamson was also victorious in a lawsuit he filed against his former agent Gina Ford, and her agency Prime Sports Marketing LLC (“Prime Sports”). The case is Williamson […]
On May 31, 2023, a Harris County Texas District Court jury found a telecom company acted in bad faith by filing a $23 million trade secret misappropriation lawsuit against a rival where the underlying technology was found to not actually be a trade secret. Background & Analysis In February 2019, Telecom firm Teligistics, Inc. (“Teligistics”) […]
An increasing rash of ransomware attacks on law firms prompted the UK’s National Cyber Security Center to release a threat report last week advising the legal sector that their clients’ deepest, darkest, most sensitive secrets are in the crosshairs of some of the most prolific ransomware actors on the scene — and its time to […]
PRESS RELEASE Published June 19, 2023 LOS ANGELES, CA / ACCESSWIRE / June 19, 2023 / The Schall Law Firm, a national shareholder rights litigation firm, reminds investors of a class action lawsuit against DouYu International Holdings Limited (“DouYu” or “the Company”) (NASDAQ:DOYU) for violations of §§10(b) and 20 (a) of the Securities Exchange Act […]
NEW YORK, June 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Faruqi & Faruqi, LLP, a leading national securities law firm, is investigating potential claims against Icahn Enterprises LP (“Icahn Enterprises” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ:IEP) and reminds investors of the July 10, 2023 deadline to seek the role of lead plaintiff in a federal securities class action that has […]
PRESS RELEASE Published June 15, 2023 LOS ANGELES, CA / ACCESSWIRE / June 15, 2023 / The Schall Law Firm, a national shareholder rights litigation firm, reminds investors of a class action lawsuit against Canopy Growth Corporation (“Canopy Growth” or “the Company”) (NASDAQ:CGC) for violations of §§10(b) and 20 (a) of the Securities Exchange Act […]
The Nevada legislature passed new legislation recently that essentially bans all non-compete clauses in physician contracts while strictly limiting the instances in which a hospital or psychiatric hospital may employ a physician as an employee, rather than as a contractor. Assembly Bill 11 was introduced in February 2023 and had passed both the Senate and […]
On May 17, 2023, US Senator Rob Wyden (D-OR) announced the release of a long-awaited report on the US Government Accountability Office’s multi-year investigation into the use of noncompete agreements across the US labor market. In announcing the release, Senator Wyden said that the GAO report “highlights the problems of noncompete agreements – particularly their […]