The National Law Journal 's fifth annual Plaintiffs' Hot List highlights recent difficulties brought by tort reform advances: once friendly jurisdictions that have grown cold; the trend toward removing class actions to less accommodating federal courts; and the increasingly combative mindset that the defense bar is bringing to cases. Plus the full-on train wrecks, like the indictment of Milberg Weiss. Nevertheless, the plaintiffs bar showed glimmers of real brilliance over the past year.
October 17, 2006 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
As we prepared this, the fifth annual installment of The National Law Journal‘s Plaintiffs’ Hot List, one newsroom wag suggested a more appropriate title might be “The Not List.”
He didn’t mean to suggest that the plaintiffs’ bar had dried up and blown away, exactly. The 11 firms we highlight here all managed impressive feats of lawyering, including verdicts and settlements worth billions of dollars.
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