By Jenna Greene | November 20, 2019
Hey c'mon—who doesn't have a 500 pound emerald worth hundreds of millions just lying around the house?
By Alaina Lancaster | November 13, 2019
"Justice will be done in public, putting a limit on how corporate America thinks it can operate in secret without accountability," said Lori Andrus, of Andrus Anderson in San Francisco.
By Amanda Bronstad | November 13, 2019
More than 40 lawyers packed a San Francisco courtroom to argue why they should lead the lawsuits against Juul.
By Amanda Bronstad | November 12, 2019
Johnson & Johnson insists that Oklahoma lawmakers should act if they want a potential $572 million court judgment for the state to extend beyond one year. The state's governor and two senior legislators filed a proposed amicus brief insisting that taxpayers shouldn't pay for the opioid crisis.
By Nora Freeman Engstrom and Robert L. Rabin | November 12, 2019
The law, which is the first of its kind, expressly prohibits reductions of damages for lost future earnings in personal injury and wrongful death cases when those reductions are based on race, gender or ethnicity.
By Amanda Bronstad | November 11, 2019
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second and Third circuits have issued rulings on the practice—which aims at bumping cases out of state court and into the federal system—in the past year, and a U.S. House subcommittee is set to hold the first congressional hearing on the topic.
By Ross Todd | November 8, 2019
Interim leadership includes Sarah London of Lieff Cabraser, Dena Sharp of Girard Sharp, Ellen Relkin of Weitz & Luxenberg, and Dean Kawamoto of Keller Rohrback, but the appointment doesn't necessarily cement their place in the final leadership structure.
By Amanda Bronstad | November 7, 2019
On Wednesday, a state court judge set a Jan. 20 trial date for an opioid case brought by the state of New York. Yet several other cities, counties and Native American tribes are preparing for trials in 2020, possibly in California, Florida, Illinois, Minnesota, Ohio, Oklahoma and West Virginia.
By Amanda Bronstad | November 6, 2019
Defendants are increasingly filing motions to bar plaintiffs attorneys from using the theory, which appeals to jurors' "reptilian brains" to obtain larger, and often unexpected, jury awards. In some cases, judges have granted the motions.
By Charles Toutant | November 6, 2019
U.S. Magistrate Judge Joel Schneider ruled that the lawyers' committee that divided up legal fees in the multidistrict litigation treated Gerald Williams and Mark Cuker "fairly and equitably."
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