By Amanda Bronstad | August 11, 2021
Objectors and cy pres funds were among the top concerns that prompted the 2018 amendments to the federal rules governing class action settlements. But does that mean there's no place for them? Not exactly.
By Amanda Bronstad | August 10, 2021
Plaintiffs lawyers alleging that casino-style apps on Facebook, Google and Apple violate state gambling laws had proposed a leadership team in charge of all three dockets.
By Amanda Bronstad | August 9, 2021
A bankruptcy trustee's request to send the NFL concussion cases to Goldberg, Persky & White, and 52 transvaginal mesh cases to Nadrich & Cohen and The Oshman Firm, is likely to go forward after Erika Girardi, the estranged wife of Tom Girardi, dropped her objection on Monday.
By Amanda Bronstad | August 9, 2021
A Girardi Keese bankruptcy trustee is set to transfer more than 150 lawsuits filed over transvaginal mesh devices and concussions of professional football players to other law firms after Erika Girardi abruptly dropped her objection.
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By Max Mitchell | August 9, 2021
The new trial date comes after U.S. District Judge Michael Baylson on Aug. 6 rejected J&J's effort to get the case swept into a multidistrict litigation pending in New Jersey federal court, and instead granted the plaintiff's motion to remand the case to the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas.
By Ross Todd | August 6, 2021
Jurors in St. Clair County, Illinois gave the company a complete defense win even though the judge overseeing the trial held the company and a key witness in contempt.
By Amanda Bronstad | July 30, 2021
Sierra Elizabeth, a Los Angeles partner at Kirkland & Ellis, handled back-to-back jury trials this summer in Florida and California, regions with very different COVID-19 protocols. "If they tell me that's the only way to try cases, and put a mask on, I'll do it," she said.
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By Max Mitchell | July 29, 2021
Johnson & Johnson, which has been hit with multibillion-dollar verdicts over its talc products, removed the case from the state trial court to the Philadelphia federal court.
By Amanda Bronstad | July 29, 2021
At the first hearing in the multidistrict litigation over its alleged role in the opioid crisis, the global consulting firm's lawyer on Thursday insisted that more than half the 50 lawsuits are subject to a $573 million multistate settlement reached earlier this year.
By Tasha Norman | July 29, 2021
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