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New York Law Journal

After Decades of Expansion, Palm Restaurant's IP Licensing Suit Leads to $120M Judgment, Fractured Family

In 2012, the Palm's prized intellectual property—its trademarks, service marks and design elements, including its robust menu and caricature-filled walls—became the fighting ground for a legal dispute between long-connected families. Now, an important state Supreme Court bench trial decision has settled the dispute, at least for the time being.
9 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Case of Doctor's Testimony Shift Teaches a Lesson to Lawyers

However the justices decide the present case before them, the moral to trial attorneys is simply this: Be alert to potential error in an adversary's trial presentation and make the appropriate objection, with underlying legal argument, at the time of its occurrence.
5 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Hints of Truth, But a Lot of Bull

Dr. Jason Bull, a trial scientist and jury consultant who has all sorts of tricks up his sleeve.
6 minute read

New York Law Journal

When Experts (and Judges) Collide: Causation on a 'Threshold' Motion

What is the demarcation between a medical opinion that “directly and adequately addresse[s] the matter of causation” and one that addresses the issue in “conclusory terms”? A line of recent Court of Appeals affirmances may help to define the contours.
9 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Litigator of the Week: El Paso Lawyer Wins $2.5M Verdict in Exploding Tire Case

Sam Legate recently convinced an Arkansas state jury that his independent tire shop owner client Michael R. Snyder did nothing wrong when a Chinese-made tire exploded on him during the mounting process, winning him $2.5 million in damages.
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

Top Plaintiffs' Expert Says McGuireWoods Partner's 'Abusive' Deposition Threatened His Health

The expert, William Sawyer, withdrew from a case against Lumber Liquidators after abruptly leaving the deposition, but defense lawyer, McGuireWoods' Robert Redmond, called it the "worst form of sandbagging."
7 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Ethics Forum: Questions and Answers on Professional Responsibility

I am a young lawyer and have trouble meeting my hourly requirements for billing purposes. It seems almost impossible to do so. What do I do?
8 minute read

Daily Business Review

Florida Supreme Court Rejects Leading Daubert Evidence Standard

The court decides the separation of powers invalidates the Legislature's attempt to drop the Frye standard for assessing expert witness testimony.
4 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

'Daubert' Comes to New Jersey—or Does It?

One might make a strong argument that cases involving such cutting edge theories of causality should be assigned specially, as medical malpractice cases once were and as certain commercial disputes presently are, to a particular judge in the venue who would be the most competent to make difficult decisions as were made by the trial judge in Accutane.
5 minute read

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