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The Legal Intelligencer

Anapol Weiss Acquires Boutique Led by Star Litigator Alexandra Walsh

Walsh left Paul Weiss to found a trial boutique with partner Beth Wilkinson in 2016 before departing in 2020 to launch a plaintiffs-side practice.
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Connecticut Law Tribune

Yale Settles With More Than 150 Fertility Clinic Plaintiffs After Nurse Steals Fentanyl

"Today marks a significant step towards justice for the survivors," said Kelly Fitzpatrick, a partner at Koskoff Koskoff & Bieder. "This settlement acknowledges the pain and suffering endured and provides a path towards healing and closure."
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Immunities and Parentage Rights: What's on the Pa. Supreme Court's September Agenda

The 10 cases slated to go before the justices touch on issues including the scope of prosecutorial immunity, parentage of children conceived through assistive reproductive technology, and a transit system's claim to sovereign immunity.
4 minute read

Daily Business Review

Rebuffed by 2 Law Firms, Slip-and-Fall Plaintiff Gets $1.8M Settlement

"We turned an enormously challenging case into a seven-figure recovery," plaintiff counsel Justin Shapiro said.
4 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Rear-End Crash on George Washington Bridge Nets $1 Million Settlement

Bergen County Superior Court Judge David V. Nasta ordered the defendant's answers stricken and defenses suppressed without prejudice for failure to provide discovery, according to court documents.
3 minute read

Litigation Daily

Becoming 'America's Largest Injury Firm': Why Morgan & Morgan Isn't Hurting for Business

A look at how the firm John Morgan founded in 1988 has expanded to more than 100 offices–at least one in all 50 states—with more than 1,000 attorneys firmwide.
6 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Phila. Jury Awards $9M to Estate of Golf Course Worker Killed by Falling Tree

And alongside making determinations on liability and damages, the jury also answered what plaintiffs counsel said was an unusual question to find on a verdict sheet in a personal injury case: whether one of the defendants was the decedent's employer.
4 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Lawsuit Linking Zantac to Cancer Diagnoses Survives Fight Over Jurisdiction

Waterbury Superior Court Judge W. Glen Pierson ruled that defendants, having registered to do business in Connecticut, consented to the jurisdiction of the state's courts.
4 minute read

Daily Report Online

'Unable to See Her Feet': $8.5M Verdict Awarded Against Midtown Condo & Georgia Power

"While we regret the plaintiff was injured and even though Georgia Power was only found to be responsible for 5% of the damages, the company still believes the claims against it are without merit and we are evaluating next steps," said defense counsel Meghan Pieler of Balch & Bingham.
7 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Case Remanded to Philadelphia Court: Addressing Circuit Split, Federal Judge Rejects FiberCel Manufacturers' Fraudulent-Misjoinder Claims

"A closer examination of this split reveals that the circuits also differ on the precise contours of the doctrine. For example, courts disagree on whether state or federal joinder law governs the analysis and whether something beyond mere misjoinder is necessary to support a claim of fraudulent misjoinder," wrote U.S. District Judge Jeffrey L. Schmehl for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
4 minute read

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