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December 13, 2010 | Corporate Counsel

Toyota Cleared to Depose Non-California Plaintiffs in MDL

A federal judge on Thursday gave Toyota Motor Corp. permission to depose 10 plaintiffs among the 200 class actions asserting economic damages tied to sudden uncontrolled acceleration — and gave both sides four months to identify which case will be the first to go to trial.
4 minute read
May 30, 2011 | National Law Journal

Plaintiffs fight to sue Toyota in California

Should consumers who relied upon Toyota Motor Corp.'s guarantees of reliability and safety be allowed to recover damages under relatively permissive California state law — regardless of the state in which they live or purchased Toyota vehicles? Arguments over that point have grown heated in the MDL over defects in Toyota's acceleration systems.
8 minute read
December 21, 2006 | The Legal Intelligencer

Big Verdicts, Big Vacancies Top Phila. Courts' Stories in '06

Medical malpractice-minded rule changes may have led to a decrease in whopper verdicts in Philadelphia Common Pleas Court, but that doesn't mean City Hall didn't see its fair share of courtroom drama in 2006.
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September 08, 2011 | New York Law Journal

Judge Unpersuaded by Companies' Defense That Chinese Government Made Them Act as a Cartel

Although China's Ministry of Commerce took the unprecedented step of hiring lawyers at Sidley Austin to join the litigation and take responsibility for requiring a group of Chinese vitamin C makers to act as a cartel, on Tuesday, Judge Brian Cogan rejected that defense.
4 minute read
September 22, 2003 | National Law Journal

VERDICTS & SETTLEMENTS

Summaries of verdicts and settlements as reported in The National Law Journal.
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September 01, 2005 | Corporate Counsel

Frontier Justice

Shareholder suits are offering rewards to lawyers who go after the personal assets of corporate wrongdoers.
6 minute read
September 06, 2006 | The Legal Intelligencer

Motion to Dismiss Fails To End Comcast Lawsuit

Cable television giant Comcast Corp. suffered a significant setback last week when a federal judge refused to dismiss a class action antitrust suit that accuses Comcast of setting out to establish monopolies in the Philadelphia and Chicago markets and then increasing prices once it had eliminated all the competition.
6 minute read
July 25, 2012 | National Law Journal

Will Comcast case air at high court? The picture is fuzzy.

Next term's big class action case before the Supreme Court is Comcast Corp. v. Behrend, set for argument on Nov. 5, the day before the national election.
4 minute read
March 24, 2009 | Texas Lawyer

Keller Alleges She Has Been Denied Right to Counsel

CCA presiding judge claims judicial conduct commission denied her request to appoint Jackson Walker as her counsel and pay the reasonable fees of the firm and Texas Ethics Commission refused to answer questions on whether Jackson Walker could defend her pro bono, for a reduced fee or through an alternate billing arrangement.
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January 19, 2006 | Law.com

Most Associate Bonuses at Large Texas Firms Mirror Last Year's

With some enviously high exceptions, bonuses paid at the end of 2005 to associates with large Texas firms were similar to bonuses paid at the end of 2004. Sure, Houston's Susman Godfrey paid out year-end bonuses ranging from $86,000 to $150,000 -- averaging 75 percent of each associate's base pay -- but most associates statewide received considerably less. George Lamb, chairman of Baker Botts' associate compensation committee, says its two-tier bonus is based on merit and on productivity.
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