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Lateral Losses Cause Austin Firm to Fold
Clark, Thomas & Winters, a one-time 200-lawyer firm that once served as counsel to President Lyndon B. Johnson, has closed shop after the departures of more than 50 lawyers over the past two months.
Toyota executive in the hot seat during testimony before Congress
A senior U.S. executive for Toyota walked a fine line Tuesday as he tried to explain the company's response to recent safety problems without admitting fault that could come back to haunt it in products liability lawsuits and two federal investigations.
Huddled Masses Yearning to Strike It Rich: Foreign Plaintiffs Shopping for Gold in American Courts
Foreign plaintiffs pursue entrance through the golden doors of American courtrooms because U.S. civil litigation offers potentially lucrative benefits that their homeland's judicial system does not. Too often foreign plaintiffs seek access to American courts on tenuous legal and factual grounds, write Bowman and Brooke's Paul G. Cereghini and John D. Sear. When public and private interests favor dismissal, the doctrine of forum non conveniens can help to reinforce the floodgates.
Added whistleblower protections debated
A new law granting more whistleblower protection to workers who report unsafe consumer products is creating more legal headaches for employers and manufacturers. The law bans lead and other toxic chemicals from toys and children's products, and requires that all products be independently tested for safety before they're sold. Employee-rights advocates and consumer advocates hail the law as a major victory in protecting from retaliation workers who report hazardous products. Attorneys representing manufacturers and employers say the law is overly burdensome, and will create yet more litigation in the area of both products liability and whistleblower retaliation.Toyota wants Calif. judge off the case
A few years ago, Toyota Motor Corp. briefly had cause for celebration when it won a wrongful death jury trial in San Francisco Superior Court. Then Judge James McBride granted a new trial and slapped the automaker with $138,984 in discovery sanctions. Now, facing a motion for terminating sanctions that would automatically find Toyota liable during the retrial, the company is hoping to bring in a new judge.Japanese earthquake stalls discovery in Toyota MDL
The earthquake and tsunami in Japan delayed portions of the multidistrict litigation against Toyota Motor Corp. this week as lawyers appeared in court to move forward on critical discovery issues.The MDL involves more than 200 sudden acceleration lawsuits brought on behalf of consumers asserting economic damages and individuals who were injured or died in accidents they attribute to defects in Toyota vehicles.