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Selections from National Law Journal Daily Headlines June 4, 2009

By David Badertscher, PLL

Source: NLJ.com, June 4, 2009.

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Record consumer law judgment against Expedia

"A judge in Washington state has ordered Expedia Inc. to pay more than $184 million for breaching its contract with hotel customers by charging service fees that generated profits for the online travel booking firm. A lawyer representing the plaintiffs in the case, Steve Berman, a partner at Seattle's Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro, said that the judgment was the largest to date in the state of Washington for a consumer class action."

 

King & Spalding wins $133 million for clients in international arbitration

"The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), an organization of the World Bank specializing in disputes between foreign investors and governments, has awarded $133 million to two Italian clients of King & Spalding in a long-running dispute with the Egyptian government over the expropriation of a 161-acre resort property on the Gulf of Aqaba on the Red Sea. The award is the largest ever granted to individual claimants by the ICSID and the organization's seventh largest award. "

 

Sports equipment company hits Detroit firm with $33M malpractice claim

"A Detroit law firm has been walloped with a $33 million legal malpractice suit over a lacrosse stick patent. Warrior Sports Inc., a Michigan sports equipment manufacturer, alleges that Detroit's Dickinson Wright is liable for the actions of two patent attorneys who let the stick's patent lapse in 2004 after failing to pay a required maintenance fee on time".

 

Four DLA real estate lawyers depart in recent months

"DLA Piper has lost at least four real estate attorneys during the past three months, with departures in Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Los Angeles attorney Pamela Westhoff left for Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton in late April, San Francisco attorneys Donald Archer and Sara Hansen Wilson departed for Drinker Biddle & Reath the same week, and Chicago attorney Michael Ben-Isvy took off for Quarles & Brady in March."

 

L.A. firms bet on wrong horse in city attorney race

"Attorneys at some of the nation's largest law firms poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into one of the most expensive and contentious elections on record for Los Angeles city attorney ? and then watched their favored candidate lose in an upset. Carmen "Nuch" Trutanich ? an environmental litigator at Trutanich-Michel, a boutique firm in Long Beach, Calif. ? defeated Jack Weiss, a prominent Los Angeles city councilman, with more than 55% of the vote on May 19."

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