July 10, 2023
A dietary supplement company founder battling McCarter & English LLP over a $2 million legal bill admitted to a Connecticut federal jury Monday that he didn't thoroughly read the firm's invoices, but also refuted the firm's claim that he was verbally informed about the rate hikes at the heart of his counterclaim.
July 07, 2023
McCarter & English LLP partner Mark D. Giarratana testified in Connecticut federal court Friday that over the course of 23 years, he "never" informed an ex-client in writing that the hourly rates it was expected to pay were rising, but the bills were always settled up without complaint until the ex-client was slammed with a multimillion-dollar judgment.
July 05, 2023
Opening statements are scheduled for Thursday morning in Connecticut federal court in a civil dispute between law firm McCarter & English LLP and a former client that was ordered to pay more than $2.4 million in an underlying Kentucky trade secrets suit.
July 03, 2023
With potential punitive damages looming for both sides, partners from McCarter & English LLP are named as witnesses in a trial scheduled to begin Wednesday over a fee dispute with a longtime former client that lost a $2.4 million trade secrets trial in Kentucky, according to multiple filings in Connecticut federal court.
June 01, 2020
A dietary supplement maker is on the hook for more than $9 million after a federal judge found it owed attorney fees and double what a jury said it had to pay after finding it wrongly obtained a seed company's trade secret on broccoli seeds and sprouts.
June 28, 2019
A Kentucky federal jury has awarded a seed company $2.4 million over claims that a former company executive stole research and development information related to its work with broccoli seeds and sprouts and gave it to his new employer.