Trump faces new legal woes, law schools debut new campuses, Chevron's lawyers face sanction bid, and litigator shifts team to Duane Morris ??
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?? Good morning from the Legal File! Law schools debut new campuses and facilities after pandemic pause. Donald Trump and his adult children were sued by the New York attorney general for fraud. Chevron lawyers at Jones Day face a sanction bid over work on herbicide lawsuit. And, Seyfarth class action leader Maatman takes team to Duane Morris. Let's get into it:
Law students at the University of Houston arrived back last month to a campus transformed by a new $93 million building, which legal industry leaders, judges and academics are slated to dedicate tomorrow.
About 1,000 miles away, the University of Cincinnati College of Law is also celebrating the opening of its long-planned new campus, taking over the former home of the university’s business school after a $45.6 million renovation.
And Washburn University School of Law in Topeka, Kansas, is on track to finish construction on its $33 million new campus in December.
It has been a busy fall for new law school facilities, following several years with few new law buildings coming online, Karen Sloan reports.
Former U.S. President Donald Trump and his adult children were sued for what New York state's attorney general called numerous acts of fraud and misrepresentation and were accused of misstating the values of real estate properties to obtain favorable loans and tax benefits.
The lawsuit, filed in a New York state court in Manhattan, accused the Trump Organization of wrongdoing in preparing Trump's annual statements of financial condition from 2011 to 2021.
It also named as defendants the Trump Organization - a family company that manages hotels, golf courses and other real estate around the world - as well as the former president's sons Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump and his daughter Ivanka Trump.
Trump blasted New York's attorney general for suing him, calling the move a political "witch hunt."
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People suing Chevron claiming they developed Parkinson's disease after being exposed to the commercial weedkiller paraquat have asked a federal judge to sanction the company's lawyers at Jones Day for coaching an expert witness during a deposition.
In a motion filed in East St. Louis, Illinois federal court, plaintiffs said that Jones Day partner Sharyl Reisman instructed the witness, former Chevron toxicologist Richard Cavalli, not to answer questions and conferred with him during breaks.
They said these "improper communications" warranted monetary sanctions against the firm, as well as another chance to depose Cavalli.
According to the plaintiffs' motion, Cavalli worked on paraquat before 1986. They argue that, under federal rules of civil procedure, his communications with Chevron's lawyers have only weak privilege protections because he was called to testify about his direct experience with paraquat, rather than being hired by the company as an outside expert.
Prominent employment litigator Gerald Maatman and a team of seven other attorneys from law firm Seyfarth Shaw have left for to rival Duane Morris, their new firm said.
Maatman, who served as chair of Seyfarth's complex discrimination litigation/class action practice group, has joined Duane Morris in Chicago as a partner and chair of a new workplace class action group within the firm's employment practice, the 800-lawyer firm said.
The group hire comes a week after Philadelphia-founded Duane Morris said it would absorb labor and employment law firm Curley, Hurtgen & Johnsrud, whose 18 lawyers are located in Silicon Valley, New York and Philadelphia.
The team of Seyfarth lawyers also includes partners Jennifer Riley, who will serve as vice chair of the new group, and Michael DeMarino.
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