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Bloomberg Law Debuts New Attorney Analytics Tool to Better Evaluate Outside Counsel

The new Attorney Analytics tool will provide stats on over 100,000 lawyers, from companies and cases they've represented in court to their biographical information.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

Viability of Contraceptive Liability Suit Uncertain After Experts Tossed

U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer said all of the plaintiffs expert witnesses failed to pass the Daubert test, dealing a potentially fatal blow to the massive products liability suit.
4 minute read

Law.com

Critical Mass: Judge Rounds Down the RoundUp Verdict. Plus: First Circuit Excludes Uninjured Claimants From Class

A San Francisco judge slashed a $289 million Roundup verdict, but her decision left plaintiffs' lawyers cheering as it accepted punitive damages as justified.
4 minute read

The Recorder

Yahoo Agrees to Pay $85M to Settle Consumer Data Breach Class Actions

The settlement, filed in court on Monday, includes a $50 million fund from which consumers can file claims to be reimbursed, credit monitoring and $35 million in attorney fees.
4 minute read

Litigation Daily

Litigators of the Week: The Weil Team that Turned the Tide for J&J

'From the very start of the case, we hit hard on our theme that this case was a fraud perpetrated by plaintiffs' lawyers for money.'
9 minute read

New York Law Journal

Boston, NYC Lawyers Team to Secure $43M Verdict in Case Linking Cancer to Asbestos, Tobacco in Cigarettes

After a five-week trial and 23 total hours of deliberations spread over four days, a jury of 11 found against cigarette maker R.J. Reynolds on claims of defective design, fraud failure to adequately warn and in favor of the family of the late Louis Summerlin, a longtime smoker who worked for years as an automotive brake mechanic.
4 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Johnson & Johnson Wins Verdict in New Jersey Talcum Powder Trial

After two mistrials in similar cases that had juries in Los Angeles deliberating for days, a New Jersey jury took just half an hour to decide that Johnson & Johnson's baby powder did not cause a woman to get mesothelioma.
4 minute read

The Recorder

Trouble Brewing: 'Kona' Beer-Maker Faces Certified Class of Consumers Over Mainland Brewing

A federal judge in San Jose has certified separate classes of consumers who bought six- and 12-packs of the Hawaiian-themed Kona Brewing Co. line of beers, which predominantly come from breweries in Oregon, Washington, New Hampshire and Tennessee.
3 minute read

Daily Business Review

Website Accessibility Landscape Continues to Lack Clarity as Businesses Await Guidance

Article III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) prohibits discrimination against disabled persons in the full and equal enjoyment of public accommodation. When a website is considered a place of public accommodation, the website must be accessible to people with disabilities.
5 minute read

Litigation Daily

Sold Your VW Before the Emissions Scandal? You've Still Got a Possible Claim, Judge Rules

U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer refused to dismiss a class action on behalf of consumers who sold their Volkswagen vehicles before Sept. 18, 2015.
6 minute read

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