- Hart v Comcast of Alamenda P2P Settlement Website – Class members get about $16 (and added to a list of suspected software pirates, we’d expect). Class counsel get $3 million.
- Law.com – Judge Rejects Paul Weiss Partner’s Bid to Revisit His Divorce Pact After Madoff Loss – We wrote about Simkin back in February when we identified a few other Paul Weiss lawyers who lost money with Madoff. This was pretty much the Costanza storyline in the Curb Your Enthusiasm Seinfeld reunion episode, by the way.
- lawjobs.com Career Center – The Future of Summer Associate Recruiting – Considering the abject ineptitude and complete lack of authority of NALP, we can’t wait to see what pointless mess they come up with.
- Legal Profession Blog: Remand In Litigation over Fees – Former Sonnenschein partner wins some, loses some, in suit about fees from suing Lybia over bombing of Pan Am 103.
- Law.com – Federal Circuit Affirms $290 Million Judgment Against Microsoft – OK, so it’s not just the M&A lawyers keeping the bankruptcy lawyers company at Weil Gotshal. But in this case, the result was amazingly bad for Weil’s client. Injunctions are almost never given anymore, so Microsoft is going to be scrambling to fix Word in order to keep selling after January.
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Many people got short-changed by Madoff. That doesn’t mean that he can undo a legal settlement that had been standing already for a few years.