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777 Partners had been scooping up big-name soccer teams for two years when it bid for Everton. Doubts about its finances could kill the deal.

In Signal Fin. Holdings LLC v. Looking Glass Fin. LLC, the United States District Court, Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division ruled on four motions regarding the...

A New York attorney whom the Seventh Circuit chastised for "neglect of her duties" when she failed to turn up for a settlement hearing in a trademark dispute has persuaded the appeals court to throw out the public reprimand against her.

The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at Chicago has reprimanded a New York lawyer for skipping oral arguments in a late-settled case and relying on opposing counsel to represent the parties’ joint views on costs.

Litigation funder Oasis Legal Finance and its ex-CEO resolved a trademark dispute just before the Seventh Circuit was prepared to hear arguments in the case, but the circuit court appeared displeased Monday when the executive's counsel failed to show for oral arguments on how to allocate appeal costs.

A Seventh Circuit panel on Tuesday ordered an attorney to show cause for why she shouldn't be disciplined for failing to appear at oral arguments the day before, but she says opposing counsel had agreed to convey details of the parties' settlement on behalf of both parties.

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