By Jenna Greene | October 30, 2019
While I admit no electricity is preferable to catastrophic wildfires that kill dozens of people and destroy billions of dollars in property, surely the choice shouldn't be either/or.
By Amanda Bronstad | October 29, 2019
U.S. District Judge William Orrick III, who is overseeing cases against San Francisco-based e-cigarette maker Juul, has ordered lawyers to prescreen some of the lawsuits through a process that resembles an idea that the defense bar has pushed as a means to weed out meritless lawsuits.
By Jenna Greene | October 26, 2019
They way class actions involving low-cost consumer goods are handled makes no sense for anyone but plaintiffs lawyers. And possibly prison inmates.
By Jenna Greene | October 26, 2019
They way class actions involving low-cost consumer goods are handled makes no sense for anyone but plaintiffs lawyers. And possibly prison inmates.
By Amanda Bronstad | October 25, 2019
"This is [the] very, very, very beginning of this litigation," said Brent Wisner, of Baum Hedlund, whose firm won $289 million and $2 billion Roundup verdicts. Zantac, he said, "will dwarf what we saw in Roundup."
By Jenna Greene | October 25, 2019
"The clients understood, as we all do, that there is not enough money to pay for all the damages related to this epidemic. They need help now not after five years of appeals."
National Law Journal | Research
By Amanda Bronstad | October 23, 2019
Data privacy and unwanted text messages were among the claims in a rising number of consumer class actions, according to an inaugural report released Wednesday by Lex Machina.
By Recorder staff | October 23, 2019
The Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe litigation partner defeated class certification efforts in closely watched gender discrimination cases against Microsoft and Twitter.
By Greg Land | October 22, 2019
The plaintiff, a former customer considering coming back to Comcast, said he was on the phone with a representative who initiated a "hard pull" of his credit report without permission, causing his credit score to drop immediately.
By Amanda Bronstad | October 18, 2019
About half the 22 lawyers proposed to lead the lawsuits are women. One of them, Ellen Relkin, said that her daughter, who is a teacher, told her "there was a kid literally charging his Juul in the classroom."
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