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Special Master in Prudential Litigation Steps Aside as Conflicts Are Alleged
The day after her appointment to oversee discovery in massive litigation against Prudential Life Insurance, a special master has withdrawn amid allegations that impermissible conflicts of interest barred her involvement. Lauren Handler said she was bowing out not due to any actual conflict but because she did not have the confidence of counsel for the plaintiffs: 234 former Prudential employees who accuse the company of, among other things, conspiring with their own lawyers to keep them from suing it.Pfizer Knocks Out Alzheimer's Drug Securities Claims
More than a half-dozen of the top class action plaintiffs firms in the country have spent years pressing securities claims related to a joint effort by Pfizer's Wyeth unit and Irish biotech company Elan to develop a treatment for Alzheimer's disease.Morris County Bar Forms New Panel To Screen Superior Court Nominees
A year after its voice on judicial nominations fell mute, the Morris County Bar Association is convening a new committee to vet potential judges and to try to diversify the bench by identifying and recruiting women and minorities.N.Y. Judge Readies First Batch of Fen-Phen Suits for Trial
Calling the drug manufacturer's protests overblown, a Bergen County, N.J., judge last week consolidated five Fen-Phen diet drug cases as the first of 5,800 to go to trial in New Jersey.Buyer Beware: Successors May (or May Not) Be Liable for Product Claims
If Company X purchases the assets of Company Y's lawnmower manufacturing business, is it also buying potential claims arising from any sale by Company Y of defective products? Kenneth R. Meyer and Brian P. Sharkey of Porzio, Bromberg & Newman examine the complex area of corporate-successor liability and explain why the best answer to this question is "maybe." A key factor, the authors say, is whether the jurisdiction at issue has adopted one of the recent exceptions to the traditional liability rules.Women and Minorities at Large N.J. Firms
Prospects for women and minorities at large New Jersey law firms showed little or no improvement this year, judged by employment figures reported to the National Association for Law Placement and to the Law Journal.Trending Stories
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