In-house counsel gets permanent double disbarment 
Published: December 4, 2012
Tags: attorney discipline, disbarment, ethics, in-house counsel, legal ethics, professional responsibility, unauthorized practice of law, Verizon, WorldCom
A lawyer who continued to work as an in-house attorney after he had been disbarred has now been permanently disbarred.
Jury awards $115M against Verizon in TV patent case
By:
Alan Cooper
Published: August 5, 2011
Tags: ActiveVideo, patent law, Verizon, Verizon FiOS
A small technology company has won a $115 million verdict from a federal jury in Virginia on its claim that Verizon Communications Inc. infringed on its patents for interactive television when Verizon developed its FiOS cable system.
Verizon owes $115 million for patent infringement
Published: August 4, 2011
Tags: California, patent infringement, Verizon, Virginia
Verizon Communications Inc. owes $115 million to a San Jose, Calif. company for infringing four of its patents, a U.S. jury found after a three-week trial in Norfolk, Va.
Verizon pays $20 million to settle EEOC disability suit
Published: July 7, 2011
Tags: disability discrimination, EEOC, no fault, Verizon
Verizon Communications will pay $20 million and provide significant equitable relief to resolve a nationwide disability discrimination class action filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the agency has announced.
Verizon settles class action lawsuit with employees for $6 million
By:
Tony Ogden
Published: December 2, 2010
Tags: California, class action, family medical leave, Verizon
Verizon Communications Inc. has agreed to pay up to $6,011,190 to current and former California employees to settle a class action lawsuit filed by the state Department of Fair Employment and Housing.
$7M settlement in wrong-way freeway death
By:
Tony Ogden
Published: July 12, 2010
Tags: automobile accident, California, Verizon, wrongful death
The family of a Goleta, Calif. man killed in a wrong-way freeway crash is getting $7 million from Verizon California.
