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Amanda Bronstad is the ALM staff reporter covering class actions and mass torts nationwide. She writes the email dispatch Law.com Class Actions: Critical Mass. She is based in Los Angeles.
April 16, 2019 | The Legal Intelligencer
Kessler Topaz had asked a federal judge to remove its former partner, Kimberly Justice, from her leadership post in the multidistrict litigation over alleged manipulation of the Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index. All other lead attorneys had opposed the move.
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
April 10, 2019 | The Legal Intelligencer
On Monday, Henry Garrard, chairman of the fee and cost committee, fired back at four law firms objecting to their share of an estimated $550 million in common benefit fees.
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
March 29, 2019 | The Legal Intelligencer
Mazie Slater Katz & Freeman this week accused plaintiffs attorney Bryan Aylstock of pressuring the chairman of the fee and compensation committee, Henry Garrard, to boost the amount of fees to his Pensacola, Florida-based firm.
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
February 8, 2019 | Law.com
Seattle plaintiffs' attorney Karen Koehler credited the verdict to a “consistent barrage of testimony against the duck companies” during nearly four months of trial.
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
February 4, 2019 | The Legal Intelligencer
U.S. District Judge Joseph Goodwin ordered a 5 percent hold-back on settlements over the objections of three law firms.
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
January 22, 2019 | The Legal Intelligencer
Johnson & Johnson has agreed to pay $120 million to attorneys general in 46 states, and Washington, D.C., to resolve marketing claims brought over its hip implants.
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
January 11, 2019 | Law.com
Of the 28 judges appointed by the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation, seven were minority judges—a record number.
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
December 20, 2018 | Law.com
In the most substantial ruling to come out of the litigation over opioids, U.S. District Judge Dan Polster adopted most of a magistrate judge's Oct. 5 report and recommendation allowing RICO and public nuisance claims to go forward against opioid companies.
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
December 4, 2018 | The Legal Intelligencer
The Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas has once again made the American Tort Reform Association's annual “Judicial Hellholes” list, while the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has been placed on the watch list for prospective hellholes.
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
November 2, 2018 | Law.com
Johnson & Johnson has filed motions to toss the verdict, accusing the plaintiffs' lawyer, Mark Lanier, of referencing stillborn babies in his opening statement and showing a drawing of a woman pushed over a ledge into ovarian cancer.
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
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