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Transparency rules for funders in tort mass cases, and how funding affects the "business model" of plaintiff mass tort litigaiton
By Amanda Bronstad | January 10, 2024
U.S. District Judge Josephine Staton, who on Jan. 2 found Girardi competent to stand trial, rejected arguments from Girardi's lawyers to push the trial into next year.
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By Ross Todd | January 10, 2024
E-discovery expert Benjamin Barnett moved from Dechert to plaintiffs firm Seeger Weiss at the turn of the year.
9 minute read
By Aleeza Furman | January 9, 2024
"Defendant's actions in coupling this filing with a press release and public advocacy touting the number of cases in which it has prevailed suggest a level of self-importance out of touch with the law in this jurisdiction dealing with defective products and the function of the post-trial process," Crumlish said.
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By Ross Todd | January 9, 2024
We pick up on our conversation with J.Y. Miller and Joe Kilpatrick of Husch Blackwell about their fixed-fee approach as national coordinating counsel in mass torts cases to ask how they handle instances where there's not much of a track record, or where trial is a possibility.
9 minute read
By Justin Henry | January 8, 2024
Former SDNY U.S. attorney David Kelley, former co-leader of the firm's white-collar practice, moved to O'Melveny & Myers. Benjamin Barnett, chair of the firm's technology committee, joined plaintiffs firm Seeger Weiss.
6 minute read
By Aleeza Furman | January 8, 2024
"If they can enrage you and inflame you and make you mad, you won't care," Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough partner Michael Brown said.
3 minute read
By Amanda Bronstad | January 8, 2024
Tom Girardi, 83, was charged on Feb. 1 with stealing at least $18 million from clients of his Los Angeles law firm, Girardi Keese, over the past decade. Others have been indicted. Here, we compiled the reporting in one place.
5 minute read
By Amanda Bronstad | January 5, 2024
On Friday, U.S. District Judge Josephine Staton in Los Angeles unsealed her competency order, concluding that the arguments of Girardi's lawyers were "wholly lacking in credibility," and some evidence showed "no more than normal age-related decline."
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By Aleeza Furman | January 2, 2024
"It was difficult and tedious … but in the end I think we got to the right spot," Saltz Mongeluzzi Bendesky partner Patrick Howard said.
3 minute read
By Edward Silverman | January 2, 2024
By implementing an intake process that takes a structured, standardized, and streamlined approach to collecting client data, plaintiffs' firms will be better equipped to draw insights from that data that provide them a real-time and accurate picture of the value and viability of their clients' claims.
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