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U.S. District Court Chief Judge John McConnell, Jr., approved a stipulated order in Cohen v. Brown University, the landmark Title IX case, requiring Brown University to pay $1,135,000 for the attorneys’ fees and $40,000 for the litigation expenses incurred by the class of women student-athletes who challenged the school’s elimination of women’s teams from its varsity intercollegiate athletics program in June 2020.
BG partner and ERISA litigator Mark Boyko was recently quoted in a PlanSponsor article discussing ERISA pleading standards and employee rights, including the right of plan participants to request certain key documents about their retirement plans and can help evaluate whether litigation is necessary. Mark was quoted saying if a fiduciary is “confident in [its] process, it makes no sense not to overprovide info including those meeting minutes.” Check out the full article here.
Washington, D.C., September 7, 2022 — National law firm Bailey & Glasser, LLP is pleased to announce that Stephen Sorensen has joined the firm’s Washington, D.C. office as a partner in its Commercial and Environmental Litigation Practice Group. Stephen has dedicated his career to representing investor plaintiffs and bankruptcy trustees in many of the largest financial and accounting fraud cases. In 2018, he led the trial team that secured a $625 million verdict on behalf of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) against PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) which was the largest amount ever secured in a verdict against a global public accounting firm.
In a verdict reached today, a Rhode Island jury found Davol and C.R. Bard liable for injuries caused by their Ventralex polypropolene hernia mesh product. The jury awarded compensatory damages of $4.8 million to plaintiff Paul Trevino.
