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How Do You Get Experience Leading an MDL Without Experience Leading an MDL?

Litigation Daily explores the chicken/egg question of how plaintiffs lawyers secure leadership appointments in multidistrict litigation with three Seeger Weiss lawyers: Parvin Aminolroaya, Jennifer Scullion and Shauna Itri.
11 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Judge Shuts Down Efforts to Expand Scope of Discovery in Ozempic MDL

Judge Karen Marston held that, despite plaintiffs' arguments to the contrary, marketing discovery is not relevant to the broad legal issues the court has prioritized for early resolution.
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Ozempic Plaintiffs Push for Marketing Discovery After MDL Judge Imposes Limits

"These are not case-specific issues," the plaintiffs contended. "The marketing was national in scale and magnitude, and everything that occurred with regard to these drugs over the last several years is in some way tethered to the marketing."
4 minute read

Texas Lawyer

'Mr. Rapino Was Not Involved': CEO Can't Dodge Deposition in MDL

Ten people died, including a 9-year-old boy, of compressive asphyxiation at Live Nation's Astroworld Festival concert.
5 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Connecticut Jury Returns $15M Talc Verdict Against Johnson & Johnson

The plaintiffs firm behind Tuesday's verdict was Dean Omar Branham Shirley, based in Dallas, which won three prior mesothelioma verdicts this year against J&J.
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Seeger Weiss Doubles Phila. Footprint With New Office in Old City

The new 5,000 square foot space is just blocks from Philadelphia's federal courthouse.
3 minute read

Law.com

Monsanto Moves to Pause PCB Trial That Starts This Week

Monsanto's emergency stay motion comes after the Washington Supreme Court agreed on Oct. 9 to review a Washington Court of Appeals decision earlier this year reversing the first PCB verdict, a $185 million award in 2021.
4 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Johnson & Johnson's 3rd Talc Bankruptcy Will Remain in Texas

A bankruptcy judge ruled on Thursday that Johnson & Johnson's third Chapter 11 case to resolve thousands of talcum powder lawsuits would remain in Texas.
4 minute read

The Recorder

Ex-Girardi Keese CFO Christopher Kamon, Shackled and Sniffing, Pleads Guilty

Christopher Kamon, 51, pleaded guilty to felony charges that he stole funds from Girardi Keese's operating accounts and conspired with founder Tom Girardi to embezzle at least $15 million in client funds.
3 minute read

Law.com

NY Appeals Court Grants J&J's Subpoena for Talc Expert as 'Clearly Relevant'

In an Oct. 8 order, a New York appeals court allowed Johnson & Johnson to subpoena plaintiffs' expert Dr. Jacqueline Moline and her employer, Northwell Health, for the names of the individuals in her two groundbreaking reports, published in 2020 and 2023, both of which linked cosmetic talcum powder to mesothelioma.
6 minute read

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