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Cozen O’Connor welcomed Melissa A. Siebert and Erin Bolan Hines — data privacy litigators with renowned track records of successfully defending employers and technology enterprises entangled in major data privacy class actions and appellate cases — to its award-winning Commercial Litigation Practice Group
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Plaintiffs claims tuition would've been cheaper but for an agreement among some of America's top colleges and universities, including University of Chicago, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Brown, Yale, Cal Tech, MIT and Duke, among others.
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Inside the Beltway on May 19, 2022.
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A federal judge said the Student Terms Respondus required students to agree to before they took online tests doesn't substitute for written consent, and doesn't mean Respondus can force students to try to sue under Washington state law, rather than Illinois' stringent biometrics privacy law
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Jones Day adds seven U.S. Supreme Court clerks from the October 2020 Term.
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David A. Neiman named Partner at Romanucci & Blandin.
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Unanimous U.S. Supreme Court says Seventh Circuit got the law wrong, sends case back for a new look
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Barack Ferrazzano Congratulates Six Newly Elected Partners.
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Company argues it complies with prevailing federal privacy and financial laws, so it can't be sued under Illinois' biometrics privacy law.
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A federal judge in Chicago said the students failed to provide a contract showing Northwestern University ever guaranteed in-person learning
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Anna Wermuth, vice-chair of Cozen O’Connor’s national Labor and Employment Department has been named the 2022 Chicago Employment Law – Management “Lawyer of the Year” by Best Lawyers in America, one of the oldest and most highly regarded peer review publications in the legal profession.
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A divided Illinois Supreme Court has ruled a man once wrongfully imprisoned for a Downstate murder, has the right to sue detectives for malicious prosecution, saying police may have swayed prosecutors to pursue the misbegotten case.
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Anna Wermuth, vice-chair of Cozen O’Connor’s national Labor & Employment Department, has been named to the second annual Salute! Women in Law Award list by the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin and Chicago Lawyer magazine.
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Northwestern educator sued relatives in dispute over a $3 million inheritance
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Thompson Coburn is pleased to announce that two experienced energy partners have joined the Firm’s national energy practice.
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A new biometrics class action on behalf of college students accuses DePaul University in Chicago of violating Illinois' Biometric Information Privacy Act.
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The class action accuses Proctortrack maker Verificient Technologies of violating the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act in the way it maintained and guarded data from students at Loyola University Chicago.
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A new class action has accused Northwestern University of violating Illinois' biometrics privacy law by using online proctoring to collect students' face scans and collect other biometric data without students' consent.
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A private investigator accused of framing a man for murder is suing those involved in a documentary about the case for defamation. He wants the court to allow him to proceed, even though his lawsuit was filed four years after the film was released.
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AnnaWermuth, vice-chair of Cozen O’Connor’s national Labor and Employment Department, was recently named to the list of Chicago’s “Notable Women in Law” by Crain’s Chicago Business.
