Critical Mass: Dechert Bulks Up in Products Liability. Plus, the Truth Behind MGM's Surprising Lawsuits Against Shooting Victims
Two months after joining Dechert from Quinn Emanuel, Sheila Birnbaum and Mark Cheffo have being joined by some familiar faces--18 of their colleagues from Quinn Emanuel--as Dechert beefs up its products liability practice group.
July 25, 2018 at 12:58 PM
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Critical Mass Law.com Amanda Bronstad Quinn Emanuel Sheila Birnbaum Mark Cheffo Dechert MGM Las Vegas shooting Fidelma Fitzpatrick women lawyers products sold specifically for women to use [email protected] @abronstadlaw.
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Pumping Up Products Liability
Sheila Birnbaum Mark Cheffo Quinn Emanuel Dechert Douglas Fleming got much bigger 18 other lawyers Here Law.com Dan Packel here Skadden Douglas Dunham Hayden Coleman Bert Wolff I spoke to Cheffo Pfizer Inc Purdue Pharma “Our core practice and our team has been together for a very long time and were able to build upon that at Quinn Emanuel. We brought the team working on our cases. It was a situation not in any way to interfere with Quinn's clients. These were people working on our cases.” 
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Taking Control of Shooting Litigation
MGM Resorts lawsuits against most of the 2,500 victims shooting in Las Vegas here Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino Stephen Paddock Brad Brian Michael Doyen Bethany Kristovich Munger Tolles & Olson, Wilson Elser Pisanelli Bice CNN here Time here anti-terrorism law procedural tactic federal court As if on cue U.S. Judicial District on Multidistrict Litigation here 22,000 lawsuits could be filed 
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Women for Women in Mass Tort Products Cases
Bayer Corp. Essure birth control devices this story The New York Times Fidelma Fitzpatrick Motley Rice leads I asked her women attorneys products made just for women “There's a growing and very active women's plaintiffs' mass tort bar that has a particular interest in torts involving women -- everything from mesh to morcellators and talc and things like that. You see women in leadership in those. The best cases are those that are done regardless of the gender of the plaintiff -- those that are done with both perspectives, that there are men and women involved in mass tort cases -- because they bring unique perspectives and insights. And the strongest teams are those that are gender diverse.”
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Duck Boat Lawsuits Sure to Be Launched
17 people died duck boat tour Branson, Missouri here The Kansas City Star impending storm life jackets Bob Clifford Clifford Law Offices “It is clear that the owners and operators of the boat were negligent in the decision to take the boat out in the waters, despite clear weather warnings that it was unsafe that day. In addition, surviving witnesses have stated that they were told it was unnecessary to wear life jackets. I view this as similar to wearing seat belts in a car – you are better off with having them on with the likelihood greater that they may help you. Without them, you have less of a chance of survival.”
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