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Corporate Counsel

Let the Bidding Begin: Why Reverse Auctions Have Worked for In-House Leaders

A former AIG legal ops director and two current leaders at GSK weighed in on why legal departments might want to take reverse auctions into consideration, if they aren't already using this tactic.
5 minute read

National Law Journal

Top 100 Verdicts: Appeal to Jurors' Emotions

A multi-billion dollar verdict involving breaches of fiduciary duty scores the top award in the 2017 list by NLJ-affiliate VerdictSearch.
9 minute read

Daily Business Review

Judge Hammers State Over Methadone Center Applications

Pointing to an arbitrary process that “ignores substance in favor of blind luck,” an administrative law judge rejected a state emergency rule drawn up to help license more methadone-treatment centers across Florida.
3 minute read

The American Lawyer

5th Circuit Blasts Lawyer Over Witness 'Gifts', Tosses $502M J&J Verdict

The appeals court took a dim view of tactics that trial lawyer Mark Lanier used with respect to expert witnesses.
5 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Booming Biotech Startup Moderna Names New Top Lawyer

Moderna Therapeutics, a messenger RNA-based therapeutics company located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has called on Lori Henderson to fill its GC chair.
2 minute read

The Recorder

Gilead, Fish & Richardson Fend Off $200 Million Merck Verdict

The Federal Circuit backed U.S. District Judge Beth Labson Freeman's finding that Merck's business and litigation misconduct justified unwinding the verdict.
4 minute read

National Law Journal

Merck Moves to MDL Cases Over Its Shingles Vaccine

Merck has moved to coordinate dozens of lawsuits brought over injuries allegedly caused by its shingles vaccine, Zostavax.
4 minute read

National Law Journal

Xarelto Plaintiffs Say Excluded Evidence Led to Defense Verdicts

Plaintiffs who lost all three bellwether trials over Xarelto last year have asked an appeals court to vacate the decisions, saying the judge improperly excluded evidence and gave jurors incorrect instructions.
4 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Justices Hear Arguments on Scientific Standards in Accutane Mass Tort

The attorneys fielded numerous questions from the justices on whether the standard for expert testimony in products cases should be changed in New Jersey.
4 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Lawyers Seek Mass Tort Status in Taxotere Cancer Drug Litigation

In response to a request to consolidate an apparently mounting group of lawsuits over the chemotherapy drug Taxotere, the New Jersey state court system has asked the bar for feedback on the possible establishment of multi-county litigation.
3 minute read

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