Louis Vuitton Lawyer Sheds Arbitration Fight Bad-Faith Loss (1)

July 3, 2025, 4:51 PM UTCUpdated: July 7, 2025, 12:28 PM UTC

A New York federal court reversed course on its finding that a former LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton in-house lawyer engaged in bad faith when seeking to amend her lawsuit to avoid arbitration.

Andowah Newton through her former attorneys mentioned during a hearing that she sought to add new claims, which mirrored those at issue in her pending arbitration against her former employer, the US District Court for the Southern District of New York said Wednesday. She explained that was an effort to forestall any request by the company for attorneys’ fees should she lose her bid under the Ending ...

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