After a marathon hearing in court on Monday, law firm Squire Patton Boggs lost its battle to avoid client communication restraints that other parties in the GetSwift class action saga voluntarily agreed to.
Squire Patton Boggs, one of the losing law firms in the GetSwift class action beauty contest, has lost again, this time in its fight to have winning firm Phi Finney McDonald pay its legal costs.
A NSW Supreme Court judge refused Friday to pause one of five class actions against AMP despite an impending battle over where the cases should be heard.
A federal judge on Friday set an August date to hear AMP’s arguments for why competing class actions should be moved to the NSW Supreme Court, but ordered the company to alert the state court to the brewing jurisdictional battle.
The judge who stayed two of three competing class actions against logistics software company GetSwift wants to square away a common fund order in the winning case before an appeal of his ruling is heard, over the protests of the appealing law firms.
AMP will begin its push on Friday to move competing Federal Court class actions to the NSW Supreme Court, but the company will face fierce opposition.
Law firm Corrs Chambers Westgarth is following in the footsteps of Squire Patton Boggs, with both now challenging a ruling that halted their shareholder class actions against logistics startup GetSwift.
BHP has been hit with a shareholder class action over the deadly Samarco mine disaster that wiped off $25 billion from the share price of the mining giant.
Boutique law firm Phi Finney McDonald has been chosen among three competing cases to lead a shareholder class action against GetSwift.
A decision on the fate of three class actions against logistics software company GetSwift is set for Wednesday, and counsel behind the competing cases aren’t the only lawyers waiting with baited breath.