By Amanda Bronstad | May 4, 2018
The pitches for lead plaintiffs counsel pit Steve Berman and a few lawyers at Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro against a 40-lawyer coalition led by Joseph Cotchett, of Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, and Laurence King of Kaplan Fox & Kilsheimer.
By R. Robin McDonald | May 3, 2018
U.S. District Chief Judge Thomas Thrash issued a 34-page protective order in the Equifax data breach multidistrict litigation but warned lawyers and their clients that they should treat documents filed in the case as "presumptively public" and use their "best efforts" to limit confidential filings.
By Marcia Coyle | April 30, 2018
Chief Justice John Roberts Jr., writing in a 2013 case, said cy pres relief raised "fundamental concerns." The Google settlement involved funds distributed to third parties, with no compensation to the class.
By Scott Flaherty | April 25, 2018
A special master, appointed by Judge Lucy Koh, was highly critical of a legal fee request in a $115 million settlement of data breach litigation against Anthem.
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By Max Mitchell | April 24, 2018
If Janssen Pharmaceuticals was the Cleveland Cavaliers, then its blockbuster blood thinner medication Xarelto was the company's LeBron James, an attorney suing the drugmaker told a Philadelphia jury during closing arguments in the latest state court trial over the drug's safety.
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By Max Mitchell | April 23, 2018
A federal judge has rejected an insurance provider's attempts to invalidate a $125 million settlement that the company, and several others, entered into with the makers of the sleep-disorder drug Provigil.
By C. Ryan Barber | April 20, 2018
“We always try to play absolutely straight with the regulators,” H. Rodgin Cohen, Sullivan & Cromwell's senior chairman and a lawyer for Wells Fargo, told The American Lawyer last year.
By Max Mitchell | April 16, 2018
A man severely burned in a fatal explosion at a plywood mill in Corrigan, Texas, has won a more than $33 million verdict.A Harris County jury…
By Amanda Bronstad | April 13, 2018
Lawyers have asked a federal judge to halt consumer class actions against sports betting sites DraftKings Inc. and FanDuel Inc. while they hash out a possible settlement.
By Amanda Bronstad | April 10, 2018
A lawyer accused of unethical conduct in the Flint water case called an attempt to oust him from his leadership appointment “nothing but a retaliatory smear campaign” and a “blatant money grab.”
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