Paul Hastings and Weil Gotshal & Manges have taken on leading advisory roles in French company Vinci Airports’ £1.27 billion acquisition of Edinburgh Airport. The airport operator is instructing Paul Hastings on its purchase of a 50% stake in the airport, according to a firm statement. The firm’s energy and infrastructure M&A partners Jessamy…

A Stamford jury awarded the estate of Felix Mejia and his widow Angela Cadavid $5.5 million. A lawsuit alleged the defendants did not properly diagnose and treat Mejia, leading to his death. According to the complaint, the defendants—Dr. Ryosuke Ito, physician’s assistant Vanie Mangal and Emergency Medicine Physicians of New…

A federal judge dismissed a key plaintiffs’ expert in litigation over Syngenta’s paraquat herbicide after finding his conclusions were based on a “methodological flip-flop.” Judge Nancy Rosenstengel, chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois who is overseeing the paraquat multidistrict litigation, found that Dr.…

Specialist insurance firm Kennedys Law has hired a team of three insurance partners from Clyde & Co in Australia, as partner departures from the U.K.-headquartered firm continue. Nicole Wearne, Ganga Narayanan and Mark Attard are to join Kennedys, a source with knowledge of the hires said.

An Uber passenger has filed suit against the company and one of its drivers, looking to hold the company responsible after the driver allegedly stabbed him eight times. Plaintiff Gregory Anastasiou filed suit against Uber Technologies, Rasier, Limited Liability Company, and alleged Uber driver Cornell Bryant, after Bryant allegedly stabbed…

Amazon Accused of Pregnancy Discrimination in Relation to AI Race | The Recorder Page Printed From: https://www.law.com/therecorder/2024/04/17/high-stakes-game-of-catch-up-in-the-ai-race-artificial-intelligence-researcher-files-pregnancy-discrimination-suit-against-amazon/ Credit: Ken Wolter/Adobe Stock NEWS Artificial intelligence researcher Viviane Ghaderi alleges that she was directed to ignore Amazon.com Service’s internal copyright policies conveyed by legal, “in pursuit of better results because ‘everyone else’—i.e.,…