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Metabolife Gets a Win in Diet Drug Case
A month after being slapped with a $4.1 million personal injury verdict in Alabama, diet pill manufacturer Metabolife International found some better luck in California. A jury there ruled that diet pill Metabolife 356 was defective, but did not cause a man's stroke four years ago that left him paralyzed and unable to work. As a result, no damages were awarded to the plaintiffs.
California State University: Going 4.0
Working for the largest four-year university system in the world, Cal State's lawyers get straight A's for reducing caseload and expenses.Judge Declines to Hold Firm Liable for Client's Financing
Although Elwyn Francis claimed his attorneys at Mirman, Markovits & Landau failed to negotiate or attempt to reduce a litigation funding lien he acquired throughout the duration of his personal injury case, Brooklyn Supreme Justice Bernadette Bayne said that Francis signed each funding agreement on "his own free will and accord."Discovery woes trip up plaintiffs again
A Fulton County judge last week became the third jurist in 18 months to blast the way an Alpharetta businessman and his web of companies have been responding to discovery requests, and this time it cost the man his malpractice suit against a former attorney.In dismissing claims that Alpharetta lawyer M. Henry Day Jr. made mistakes that caused the plaintiffs to be sued, Fulton County State Court Judge Myra H.The Churn: Lateral Moves in The Am Law 200
The Silicon Valley office of Bingham McCutchen adds three new corporate attorneys; two former Husch Blackwell partners join a labor and employment boutique; and the former U.S. ambassador to Romania returns to Mayer Brown. The Churn is constant. Please send all announcements to [email protected].ON THE MOVE: Legal Community Creates Mutual Support Email Network
The State Bar of Georgia has created a new email networking program, SOLACE, to help anyone in the legal community facing a sudden, catastrophic event such as illness, injury or fire.Coudert Brothers dies a slow death
COUDERT BROTHERS may be dead, but its problems only seem to be getting worse. The firm, which closed up shop in August 2005, is awash in debt, has declared bankruptcy, and was recently hit by a pair of judgments totaling $2.8 million. Though the firm has paid off $23 million it owed to bank creditors Citigroup Inc. and JPMorgan Chase Co.Trending Stories
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