August 26, 2020
A Manhattan federal judge on Wednesday kicked to California a former Mayer Brown LLP partner's suit accusing an electric car startup of tricking him into accepting an in-house job, holding that any wrongdoing occurred there.
March 23, 2020
An electric car startup accused of tricking a former Mayer Brown LLP partner into accepting an in-house counsel job and then illegally firing him told a New York federal court Friday that the attorney's suit belongs in California, where the contract in question would have been carried out.
March 09, 2020
A former Mayer Brown LLP partner accusing an electric car startup of tricking him into accepting an in-house counsel job and then illegally firing him told a New York federal judge Friday his suit shouldn't be transferred to California because he was given bogus information about stock options while in the Empire State.
February 19, 2020
An electric car startup facing allegations that it illegally canned a former Mayer Brown LLP partner after fraudulently inducing him to join as general counsel is asking a New York federal judge to ship the case cross-country to California, where the company says it belongs.
January 03, 2020
A former Mayer Brown LLP partner sued an electric car startup founded by bankrupt Chinese tycoon Jia Yueting in New York federal court on Friday, alleging the company duped him into leaving his lucrative legal practice to join as general counsel and stiffed him on millions in pay and stock benefits after it unlawfully fired him.