The satisfaction of business leaders illustrates how the perception of trial lawyers has changed in recent years.
Since then, Mr. Jovanovic has changed lawyers and the Manhattan district attorney has changed prosecutors.
In the cases in which lawyers do file the newly required certification, some judges have ruled that the lawyers had changed the mandated wording or otherwise resisted compliance.
The former dictator's lawyers have changed their legal tack in recent months by arguing that their 85-year-old client is not mentally fit to stand trial, and their appeal has gained support among the political establishment and appears likely to be accepted in court, legal experts say.
According to Nestle Purina PetCare, the case currently remains pending in court and the class action lawyers have changed the allegations more than once.
UPDATE: TMZ reports that Iggy Azalea's lawyers have changed their tune on the sex tape front and are now claiming that if she is in an explicit video, it should be considered revenge porn, and she may have been underage when it was filmed.
Elnathan John, a Nigerian writer and lawyer who has changed his Twitter identity to "I am Baga" in solidarity, shared a tweet from Nigeria's finance minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, who also expressed condolences over the Paris attacks but made no mention of the events in Baga.
And he has found that the professional world he knew, of tight-lipped lawyers and hostile adversaries, has changed, at least for now.
'But when I ask him if he will return, he grins and says he doesn't know.' His lawyers say that nothing has changed legally in the past 25 years and he cannot return.
Now, with less than a week to go before the deadline for Ms. Rich's side to file legal briefs answering Mr. Black's charges, she has changed lawyers again, hiring STEVEN E. STEIN.
