Media giant settles subscription data class action suit for $50 million
New York media giant Hearst Communications has agreed to pay $50 million to settle a subscription data lawsuit. | 4yrs
New York media giant Hearst Communications has agreed to pay $50 million to settle a subscription data lawsuit. | 4yrs
Calling AEG's anti-trust claims 'baseless,' lawyers for Ozzy Osbourne fight back in what is known as the LA and London 'venue wars.' | 4yrs
Citing the Kama Sutra and legal authorities, an Indian court refused a petition that a magazine cover was obscene and violated sexual offences Acts. | 4yrs
The planned tie-up between media giants CBS Corp and Viacom is heating up as CBS sues Shari Redstone | 4yrs
This first edition, written by leading AI legal specialists, provides answers and insight on how to integrate Artificial Intelligence into business operations, whilst working within the relevant law and guidelines in key jurisdictions around the world. | 4mos
South African Competition Commission squeezes media companies to the tune of $4.86 million, but wants more | 4yrs
Relatives claim pharmacy chain Walgreens and an Illinois hospital failed to properly diagnosed and treat overdose days earlier. | 4yrs
The Law Society of Ireland is recruiting a Representation and Member Services Manager for a nine-month contract. | 5yrs
Senator Dianne Feinstein (D.California) of the Senate Intelligence Committee is now pushing for a renewed raft of legislation that would tighten scrutiny of social media platforms to alert law enforcement to online extremist activity. | 7yrs
The family behind Forbes Media is suing Hong Kong investors Integrated Whale Media Investments over an alleged breach of payment for a controlling stake that was purchased by IWMI last year. | 7yrs
Paul Motion, partner in Glasgow and Edinburgh firm bto, is making two appearances in his own show, 'Phoney or False Reviews Online - What Can I Do?', at the Edinburgh Fringe theatre festival. | 7yrs
Executives at Universal Music Group have been recorded saying that 'the business has been controlled by lawyers for a long time' in a call released by entrepreneur Kim Dotcom, with whom the Group had been in litigation. | 7yrs
The pop music critic at the Financial Times has identified a possible turning point in the portrayal of the professions by Rihanna's seven-minute video 'Bitch Better Have My Money', which features an accountant figure living like a rock star. | 7yrs
The manuscript of 'Go Set a Watchman' by Harper Lee - a sequel to 'How to kill a mockingbird' - lay in a bank safe deposit in Alabama for three years until Ms Lee's lawyer went through the box and realised its significance. | 7yrs
Ellen Pao, who lost her employment discrimination claim against venture capital company Kleiner Perkins, has continued to have a difficult year - resigning from her next employer, Reddit, after 200,000 people signed a petition seeking her removal. | 7yrs
Mark Cuban, the sports-to-media billionaire and owner of the Dallas Mavericks basketball team, has said that he hates dealing with lawyers and that they are 'a huge drain on productivity' - but he calls his own lawyer 'my Satan...a good friend'. | 7yrs
Vadim Prokhorov, lawyer to the family of assassinated Russian politician Boris Nemtsov, has revealed that the opposition leader received threats 'several months ago' and says his death might be connected to events in Ukraine. | 7yrs
Some 30 employees and business contacts were taken out for a meal, at an average of US$10,000 a head, after its co-founder won $1m at Las Vegas and just as Paul Weiss M&A and media lawyer James Schwab left the firm to join Vice Media as co-president. | 7yrs
Tonja Carter, the lawyer who found Harper Lee's 50-year old sequel to 'To Kill a Mockingbird' has been replying to suggestions that she exploited the 88-year old author by getting the new discovery published against the real wishes of Ms Lee. | 7yrs
Chris Hannay and his son Daniel have been accused of contempt of court by the man they are suing for defamation in a A$1.2m suit - Campbell Newman, the premier of Queensland. | 8yrs
Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz, an expert in civil liberties and blasphemy laws, has predicted that a widespread hostility to depiction of the prophet among Muslims will reduce despite the concerns expressed over French magazine Charlie Hebdo. | 8yrs