September 20, 2023
A California dietary supplement company is renewing its bid to see a Connecticut federal judge supersede a jury's decision in a breach of contract suit filed against it by its onetime counsel, McCarter & English LLP, arguing the nearly $6.5 million in damages a jury awarded should be reduced to roughly $859,000.
July 25, 2023
McCarter & English LLP won a clean sweep of a multipart verdict in Hartford federal court on Tuesday when a jury awarded the law firm more than $1 million in its suit against a former client, which failed to pay a batch of legal bills after an adverse outcome in a trade secrets case in Kentucky.
July 11, 2023
A former client of McCarter & English LLP repeatedly praised his attorneys in the run-up to a civil trial in Kentucky, but soon after losing, accused them of malpractice and decided to fire the legal team, a Connecticut federal jury heard Tuesday.
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 06, 2023
Mark D. Giarratana, a partner at McCarter & English LLP, testified at the start of a Connecticut federal trial on Thursday that a former client received more than $1.5 million in discounts on its legal bills connected to a trade secrets lawsuit, but asked for an even steeper cut before failing to pay in full.
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.
March 23, 2021
McCarter & English LLP can't completely shake off a malpractice counterclaim brought by a former client who was hit with a $2.4 million jury verdict in a trade secrets suit, though it can recover certain fees, a Connecticut federal judge ruled Monday.