December 12, 2016 | The Recorder
Financier's Family Stakes Claim to 'Wolf of Wall Street' Profits in $3B Money-Laundering CaseThe family members of a Malaysian financier at the center a $3.5 billion money laundering case involving the film "The Wolf of Wall Street" have asked to intervene in hopes of asserting a claim over several high-priced hotels and condos in New York and California, a Bombardier jet and music royalties.
By Amanda Bronstad
12 minute read
December 09, 2016 | Daily Report Online
Athens Sperm Bank Sued for Allegedly Misleading Women About Donor's Criminal Record, Mental HealthA Georgia sperm bank is facing nearly a dozen "novel and cutting edge" lawsuits in four states and Canada that allege it misled women about a donor who turned out to be convicted on burglary and a diagnosed schizophrenic.
By Amanda Bronstad
7 minute read
December 08, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer
Two Women Named to Lead Plaintiffs' Team in Talc MDLTwo women have been appointed to lead federal multidistrict litigation over Johnson & Johnson's baby powder, including one whose firm obtained three verdicts this year.
By Amanda Bronstad
13 minute read
December 08, 2016 | The Recorder
Yahoo Data Breach MDL Steered to Koh's San Jose U.S. CourtroomA federal judicial panel has ordered that class actions filed over Yahoo's data breach this year be sent to U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
December 07, 2016 | New Jersey Law Journal
J&J Looking to Rebound From Series of MegaverdictsAfter Johnson & Johnson got hit with a $1 billion verdict last week, plaintiffs lawyers were quick to paint a portrait of the company as an aggressive litigator uninterested in settling whose actions have prompted juries to award gargantuan punitive damages. It's the same refrain that plaintiffs attorneys have been touting this year as Johnson & Johnson has gotten hammered with five big verdicts over its hip implants and talcum powder products.
By Amanda Bronstad
45 minute read
December 07, 2016 | National Law Journal
J&J Looking to Rebound From Series of MegaverdictsAfter Johnson & Johnson got hit with a $1 billion verdict last week, plaintiffs lawyers were quick to paint a portrait of the company as an aggressive litigator uninterested in settling whose actions have prompted juries to award gargantuan punitive damages. It's the same refrain that plaintiffs attorneys have been touting this year as Johnson & Johnson has gotten hammered with five big verdicts over its hip implants and talcum powder products.
By Amanda Bronstad
45 minute read
December 07, 2016 | New Jersey Law Journal
Two Women Named to Lead Plaintiffs' Team in Talc MDLTwo women have been appointed to lead federal multidistrict litigation over Johnson & Johnson's baby powder, including one whose firm obtained three verdicts this year.
By Amanda Bronstad
12 minute read
December 05, 2016 | National Law Journal
Class Action Firm Lobs RICO Suit at Serial ObjectorsChicago's Edelson PC claims that lawyers in Texas, California and Illinois have conspired as part of a racketeering enterprise to extort payments in class actions.
By Amanda Bronstad
7 minute read
December 05, 2016 | National Law Journal
Goldman Ismail Tomaselli Brennan & BaumMerck & Co. Inc. had just wiped out 650 products liability lawsuits in federal court over its osteoporosis drug Fosamax when the first trial in California state court began.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
December 05, 2016 | National Law Journal
Greenberg TraurigC.R. Bard Inc. had a tough road ahead earlier this year to convince a jury that its pelvic mesh device, used to treat urinary incontinence, didn't cause a woman's severe pain.
By Amanda Bronstad
9 minute read
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