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April 05, 2000 | Law.com

Lawyers Argue For and Against Punitives in Tobacco Case

When Philip Morris Inc.'s attorney offered to pay about $5 million in punitive damages to a woman dying of lung cancer, her lawyer scowled and suggested instead that $115 million would be more like it. "What I asked for is less than 1 percent of their net worth," said plaintiff's attorney Madelyn Chaber. Chaber on Friday delivered an acid-tipped closing argument to the seven-man, five-woman jury winding up the two-month trial in her suit against two tobacco giants.
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November 08, 2007 | Law.com

New State Mortgage Laws and Regulations Authorize Private Lawsuits

A wave of state laws and regulations aimed at curbing unsuitable mortgage loans is opening the door to more litigation by allowing borrowers to file lawsuits instead of complaining to regulatory agencies. The laws are also creating compliance work for lawyers assisting national lenders faced with a thicket of new state requirements. The laws, which kick in between January 2007 and early 2008, allow private lawsuits, frequently under state consumer protection or unfair or deceptive acts or practices laws.
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May 03, 2000 | Law.com

Accounting Firm Not Liable For $15M-$20M Lost By Investors

When investors rely on financial analyses not meant for them and lose millions as a result, those who draft the analyses aren't always to blame, a Georgia judge ruled. G & W Financial Corp. designed a plan to finance insurance premiums for high-risk drivers and used audits by accounting firm BDO Seidman to drum up capital. But the plan failed, and a class of about 700 investors sued BDO for $15 million to $20 million.
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February 01, 2013 | The American Lawyer

Big Deals

Freeport-McMoRan/Plains Exploration & Production Company/McMoRan Exploration; Equity Residential and AvalonBay/Archstone; Conagra/Ralcorp
11 minute read
November 21, 2001 | Law.com

First Tobacco Monitoring Case to Reach Trial Falls Short

Big Tobacco won a legal battle Nov. 14 when a West Virginia jury rejected a class action lawsuit that sought to force tobacco companies to provide free medical checkups for a quarter-million smokers. It was the first lawsuit of its kind to be tried in the U.S.; a similar case is pending in Louisiana. An appeal of the West Virginia case is expected.
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November 13, 2000 | Law.com

Plugging a Leak

When the FBI arrested a former paralegal at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe for trying to sell one of Orrick's confidential trial-planning documents from the firm's tobacco industry suit to the defense, they had the cooperation of both the plaintiff and defense teams during the sting operation. The incident raises the question of how much access legal support staff should have to confidential documents.
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March 20, 2003 | Law.com

Producing Those Documents

The past two decades have seen significant changes in the time-honored discovery tradition of document production. From the Bates stamp to the electronic coding of documents, the document production of 2003 bears little resemblance to that of the 1980s and '90s. Technology has changed the process forever, but one litigator predicts, "As much as things have changed, the big changes are still to come."
9 minute read
August 15, 2007 | Law.com

Despite 11th Circuit Ruling, AT&T Vows to Keep Car Logo

When drivers and pit crews check their cars' engines and tires before Sunday's NASCAR event in Michigan, Jeff Burton and his team may be waiting for another new paint job to dry on their No. 31 car. Or maybe not. Despite the fact that AT&T's bid to maneuver around a largely exclusive telecommunications sponsorship deal between Sprint Nextel and NASCAR hit the wall Monday, a company spokesman said Tuesday that AT&T expects its paint scheme to remain on Burton's car.
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September 24, 2012 | New Jersey Law Journal

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