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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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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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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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March 31, 2023 | Daily Report Online

Phillips 66 Topped Off Tank of New GC for Forfeiting Stock at Norfolk Southern

Vanessa Allen Sutherland took the legal reins of the energy giant in January 2022, after negotiating a special equity award to offset what she was leaving behind at Norfolk Southern.
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March 30, 2023 | Corporate Counsel

Phillips 66 Topped Off Tank of New GC for Forfeiting Stock at Railroad

Vanessa Allen Sutherland took the legal reins of the energy giant in January 2022, after negotiating a special equity award to offset what she was leaving behind at Norfolk Southern.
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March 07, 2023 | Law.com

'Opinion Is Clear as Day': Philip Morris Argues 2020 Ruling Requires High Court to Toss Wrongful Death Claims as Time-Barred

The full Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court heard oral arguments Monday on whether a wrongful death claim is time-barred if the statute of limitations for personal injury claims had already expired at the time of death.
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