By Amanda Bronstad | National Law Journal | October 18, 2017
With another potentially $1 billion verdict on the line, two heavyweight lawyers—plaintiffs' counsel W. Mark Lanier and defense lawyer John Beisner—are trading ever-escalating accusations and barbs in court papers in a high-stakes DePuy hip implant trial.
Daily Report Online | Letter to the Editor
By Jeffrey M. Hood | October 18, 2017
Lawyer responds to a letter from Georgians for Lawsuit Reform.
By Colby Hamilton | New York Law Journal | October 18, 2017
International mining company Rio Tinto and two of its former executives were accused of fraud by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Tuesday for allegedly inflating the value of coal assets that ultimately sold for a little more than one one-hundredth of what it was bought for only a few years earlier.
By P.J. Dannunzio | New Jersey Law Journal | October 18, 2017
The New Jersey Supreme Court has declined to decide whether remarks made to a reporter by a woman who claimed she was the subject of a bogus parking ticket, along with added comments by her lawyer, violated the confidentiality clause in her settlement with a municipality.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Max Mitchell | The Legal Intelligencer | October 18, 2017
"Limitless liability" is what health care providers in Pennsylvania would be exposed to if the state Supreme Court determined that UPMC could be liable for the conduct of a former drug-addicted employee who caused a hepatitis C outbreak in Kansas two years after being fired by the Pittsburgh-based hospital, a lawyer representing the hospital told the justices.
By Colby Hamilton | New York Law Journal | October 17, 2017
A hedge fund founder's suit pressing Fourth and Fifth Amendment claims against former U.S. attorney Preet Bharara, federal prosecutors,…
By Michael Booth | New Jersey Law Journal | October 17, 2017
A New Jersey appeals court has snuffed out a last-ditch attempt to use the common knowledge doctrine in a legal malpractice case after the…
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Max Mitchell | October 17, 2017
Can law firms that handed off a case to a successor firm recover its fees from the successor firm under a quantum meruit theory, or does the initiating firm need to sue the client?
By Colby Hamilton | October 17, 2017
The Legal Aid Society's Attorney-in-Chief, Seymour James, announced on Tuesday his intent to retire as head of the nation's largest legal aid organization in June 2018.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Howard J. Bashman | October 16, 2017
You may be surprised to learn that one of the most useful and informative practice guides for attorneys and law students interested in appellate practice had its origin here in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
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