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September 06, 2024 | New York Law Journal

Litigation Departments of the Year Winner, Professional Liability: Latham & Watkins

Latham & Watkins took top honors in the category on Sept. 5 at the New York Legal Awards
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June 13, 2024 | Daily Business Review

Miami Jury Returns $16M Verdict: Meet the Winning Lawyers

The team and its associates sued Philip Morris USA Inc. and several other defendants on behalf of client Gloria Garcia, widow of Manuel Garcia, whom they alleged died of a smoking-related illness in 1998.
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March 28, 2024 | Daily Business Review

What Not to Do: $43M Verdict Undone Over Hearsay

"Knowing that this testimony could evoke sympathy in the minds of the jurors, experienced trial lawyers used these improper and highly prejudicial statements to paint a detailed picture—one that graphically illustrated two independent, emotional conversations between a dying mother and her loving sons," Third District Court of Appeal Judge Monica Gordo held in the opinion.
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March 18, 2024 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Lawsuits Are Flying Over PFAS. But Can Plaintiffs Prove Actual Injury?

"It just makes it sound like everybody can sue over it, and that does not seem workable for our legal system," attorney John Galvin said.
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February 02, 2024 | Law.com

Massachusetts High Court Affirms Trial Judges' Right to Set Reasonable Time Limits During Trials

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court noted that evidentiary principles were "at least one source of a judge's broad discretion to impose time limits as necessary."
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November 09, 2023 | Law.com

At Oral Argument, Massachusetts Justices Mull Whether Imposing Time Limits on Trials Is an Abuse of Discretion

The central question at issue was whether the lower court abused its discretion.
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September 07, 2023 | National Law Journal

Arnold & Porter Lures 6-Lawyer Trial Team From Shook Hardy

The group has represented clients in the medical device, tobacco and pharmaceutical industries, among others, in pretrial litigation and as trial and appellate counsel.
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July 07, 2023 | Law.com

Massachusetts High Court Sides With Big Tobacco Companies, Holding Wrongful Death Action Was Time-Barred

"In GGNSC ... we were unequivocal that, in Massachusetts, we follow the majority rule that wrongful death liability is derivative," Justice David A. Lowy wrote on behalf of the court. "Accordingly, we follow the majority approach precluding recovery for wrongful death where the statute of limitations on the decedent's underlying claims ran before the decedent's death."
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May 11, 2023 | Law.com

12% Post-Judgment Interest Is Constitutional: State High Court Upholds $37M Judgments Against Philip Morris

"Given Philip Morris's research regarding compensation and mutagenicity, the jury could find that these representations were knowingly false. Greene testified that she received these false messages, that she believed them, and that she switched to Marlboro Lights because of this belief. Particularly against the backdrop of her exposure to the conspiracy's broader disinformation campaign, a reasonable jury could conclude that Greene was exposed to the fraud and deception in the particular marketing and messaging regarding filtered cigarettes and that she relied on it to justify her continuing to smoke Marlboro Lights," Justice Scott L. Kafker wrote.
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April 19, 2023 | Law.com

Critical Mass With Law.com's Amanda Bronstad: Will Bankruptcy Judge Bend On Halting Talc Cases Against J&J? Juul Settles AG Cases But SF Trial Looms

Lengthy hearings occurred on key issues in both the Johnson & Johnson talc bankruptcy and the Chapter 11 case involving 3M's combat earplugs.
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