Posted on 11 Mar 2021
By: Beth Fegan We live in a world where true gender equity has yet to be achieved in the legal field. With the majority of our firm made up of successful and talented women, we’re focused on forging a truly…
Posted on 2 Mar 2021
By: Ashley Cullins | The Hollywood Reporter TikTok has reached a deal that will resolve a class-action complaint over consumer privacy violations via its current app and its predecessor, Musical.ly, and, if approved by the court, the video-sharing social platform…
Posted on 1 Mar 2021
Today, the law firms of Carlson Lynch LLP, FeganScott LLC, and Bird, Marella, Boxer, Wolpert, Nessim, Drooks, Lincenberg & Rhow, P.C. moved for preliminary approval of a $92 million proposed class action settlement on behalf of users of the TikTok…
Posted on 12 Feb 2021
By: Melissa Ryan Clark, With discovery’s shift to electronically stored information (ESI) has come a torrent of ever-changing best practices. Many of the common guideposts for managing eDiscovery aim to facilitate a transparent and collaborative process—but are tailored to…
Posted on 3 Feb 2021
FeganScott’s advocacy for agricultural workers, landscapers and consumers exposed to Roundup contributed to a nearly $2 billion settlement submitted to the federal court in California for preliminary approval in February 2021. The settlement will provide people who have been exposed…
Posted on 20 Jan 2021
By: Beth Fegan What year-end recap can do justice to what we have all been through? The challenges of a world-wide pandemic, calls for social justice, and a politically fraught election all conspired to make 2020 a remarkable year. At…
Posted on 15 Jan 2021
By Derrick Z. Jackson | ESPN's The Undefeated Black athletes have launched a legal assault on what they are calling the chronic bias by the NCAA. Last month in federal court in Indianapolis, a lawsuit was filed alleging the governing body…
Posted on 14 Jan 2021
CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today an Illinois-based charity was sued under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, claiming the non-profit, First Love International Ministries, and its partner, Loving InDeed, stripped Kenyan children from or failed to return them to their homes…
Posted on 21 Dec 2020
FeganScott Attorney Melissa Clark Named to Crain’s New York Business 2021 Notable Women in Law CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--FeganScott attorney Melissa Clark was recently named to Crain’s New York Business 2021 Notable Women in Law list. The award is intended to honor…
Posted on 10 Dec 2020
By Tom Goldman, NPR For more than 50 years, the NCAA has imposed academic rules to make sure college athletes aren't just athletes, and the decades-long process has generated plenty of controversy. Critics claim the academic standards, and the penalties…