Pierce | Pierce Bainbridge
PHILADELPHIA – A Philadelphia attorney alleges that improper conduct on the part of Pierce Bainbridge founder John M. Pierce, in the form of threatening an unauthorized legal malpractice suit, was done in an attempt to notch a dismissal in a fee-sharing dispute matter.
The saga starts with a 2017
lawsuit filed by Lenwood Hamilton, a former professional wrestler and football player, which claimed that the Augustus “Cole Train” Cole character featured in the
Gears of War video game series unfairly appropriated his likeness.
Hamilton’s lawsuit targeted Microsoft, developer Epic Games and the voice actor for the Cole character, Lester Speight. There was a connection between Speight and Hamilton, when the two did business together in the late-1990s. Speight made appearances for Hamilton’s family-oriented wrestling promotion, Soul City Wrestling. At the time, the plaintiff’s wrestling alter-ego was “Hard Rock Hamil
In
Sackler v. American Broadcasting Companies, Inc., et al., 2021 N.Y. Slip Op. 21055 (N.Y. County Mar. 9, 2021) (Perry, J.), the New York County Supreme Court became the first State Court in New York to apply the recently amended anti-SLAPP law retroactively. The Sackler lawsuit stemmed from defendants’ mistaken use of the plaintiff’s image in connection with a report on Purdue Pharma’s involvement in the OxyContin epidemic he was not the David Sackler who was a part owner of Purdue Pharma, but rather a health and welfare industry consultant. Plaintiff filed suit against the defendants for defamation per se, under theories of both libel and slander. Defendants moved to dismiss the complaint on various grounds. While the motion was under consideration, however, the Legislature amended the anti-SLAPP law (codified at New York Civil Rights Law (“CRL”) §§ 70-a, 76-a). As acknowledged in the trial court’s decision, the amendment to CRL § 76-a significantly broade
Hank Greenberg Fast Facts
Personal
Birth place: New York, New York
Birth name: Maurice Raymond Greenberg
Father: Jacob Greenberg
Education: University of Miami, B.A., 1948; New York Law School, LL.B., 1950
Military: US Army, Captain
Awarded the Legion of Honor from France.
Vice chairman of the National Committee on United States-China Relations.
Timeline
1960 – Is hired as a vice president for the insurance-holding company C.V. Starr & Co., Inc.
1968 – C.V. Starr & Co., Inc. begins distributing some the firm’s subsidiaries in order to raise capital to establish American International Group, Inc. (AIG). Greenberg becomes the Chairman and CEO of AIG.
Hank Greenberg Fast Facts
Personal
Birth place: New York, New York
Birth name: Maurice Raymond Greenberg
Father: Jacob Greenberg
Education: University of Miami, B.A., 1948; New York Law School, LL.B., 1950
Military: US Army, Captain
Awarded the Legion of Honor from France.
Vice chairman of the National Committee on United States-China Relations.
Timeline
1960 – Is hired as a vice president for the insurance-holding company C.V. Starr & Co., Inc.
1968 – C.V. Starr & Co., Inc. begins distributing some the firm’s subsidiaries in order to raise capital to establish American International Group, Inc. (AIG). Greenberg becomes the Chairman and CEO of AIG.
NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) - A New York City man settled with the Mercedes Club fitness center after his toddler slipped and fell in the pool area in October of 2019.
The toddler was attending a Physique Swimming class when he fell and sustained a serious cut to his lower lip requiring sutures.
According to the settlement petition filed on April 9 in the New York County Supreme Court, plaintiff Daniel Neiditch accepted a $30,000 settlement from defendants Two Trees Management Co. LLC, Mercedes House, M Club Gym LLC, Physique Swimming Inc. and Concept2 Inc. Of that, $10,000 will be paid to Neiditch s lawyer and the remaining $20,000 will go into a trust account for the toddler to access once he is of age.