Mary Pat Gallagher

April 03, 2015 | New Jersey Law Journal

Hundreds of products liability suits over the acne drug Accutane face dismissal in the wake of an April 2 decision that the warnings provided to prescribing doctors after April 10, 2002, were adequate as a matter of law.

By Mary Pat Gallagher

7 minute read

April 03, 2015 | New Jersey Law Journal

Hundreds of products liability suits over the acne drug Accutane face dismissal in the wake of an April 2 decision that the warnings provided to prescribing doctors after April 10, 2002, were adequate as a matter of law.

By Mary Pat Gallagher

7 minute read

April 02, 2015 | New Jersey Law Journal

The proposed $225 million pollution settlement between New Jersey and Exxon Mobil Corp. has been criticized as inadequate, given the state's nearly $9 billion damages claim, but some lawyers and environmentalists have questioned whether the state's valuation of the case would have withstood judicial scrutiny.

By Mary Pat Gallagher

8 minute read

April 02, 2015 | New Jersey Law Journal

The proposed $225 million pollution settlement between New Jersey and Exxon Mobil Corp. has been criticized as inadequate, given the state's nearly $9 billion damages claim, but some lawyers and environmentalists have questioned whether the state's valuation of the case would have withstood judicial scrutiny.

By Mary Pat Gallagher

8 minute read

April 01, 2015 | New Jersey Law Journal

The New Jersey Supreme Court is set to decide whether lawyers in a limited liability partnership lose their protection from being sued individually if their firm fails to maintain professional liability insurance.

By Mary Pat Gallagher

5 minute read

April 01, 2015 | New Jersey Law Journal

The New Jersey Supreme Court is set to decide whether lawyers in a limited liability partnership lose their protection from being sued individually if their firm fails to maintain professional liability insurance.

By Mary Pat Gallagher

5 minute read

March 31, 2015 | New Jersey Law Journal

The company hit with a $175 million whistleblower verdict in Texas last fall over allegedly defective guardrails now faces a motion in New Jersey state court seeking to reopen a suit over a fatal accident on the New Jersey Turnpike.

By Mary Pat Gallagher

6 minute read

March 31, 2015 | New Jersey Law Journal

The company hit with a $175 million whistleblower verdict in Texas last fall over allegedly defective guardrails now faces a motion in New Jersey state court seeking to reopen a suit over a fatal accident on the New Jersey Turnpike.

By Mary Pat Gallagher

6 minute read

March 30, 2015 | New Jersey Law Journal

A longtime county counsel is facing calls for his resignation in connection with a troubled solar panel project that has cost the county more than $20 million.

By Mary Pat Gallagher

5 minute read

March 30, 2015 | New Jersey Law Journal

The New Jersey Appellate Division is cracking down on a practice it referred to as "improper bootstrapping," in which lawyers in personal injury cases get experts to testify at trial about opinions held by other experts who are not called to the stand.

By Mary Pat Gallagher

6 minute read