By Ross Todd | August 3, 2022
Feinberg, the septuagenarian who oversaw settlement funds involving 9/11 and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, just landed the role as the "court-appointed estimation expert" in the Chapter 11 case of Johnson & Johnson's LTL Management.
By Ross Todd | August 2, 2022
In an order issued Friday, U.S. District Judge Cormac Carney kept Visa in the case because "it is alleged to have continued to recognize as a merchant an immense, well known, and highly visible business that it knew used its websites to host and monetize child porn."
By Ross Todd | July 28, 2022
3M subsidiary Aearo Technologies filed for bankruptcy Tuesday claiming the massive combat earplug multidistrict litigation it's embroiled in is "broken beyond repair." The move follows last year's Chapter 11 filing by Johnson & Johnson subsidiary LTL Management involving liabilities from talcum powder lawsuits.
By Ross Todd | July 27, 2022
The market volatility of the first half of the year didn't yield a spike in new securities class actions according to the latest numbers from Cornerstone Research. But the price drops at issue in some cases are eye-popping.
By Ross Todd | July 26, 2022
A recent survey by Seyfarth Shaw found the volume of federal ADA Title III lawsuits fell 22% nationwide year-over-year from the first half of 2021. But the falloff has been most felt in the federal courts in California where DAs in San Francisco and Los Angeles sued firms representing serial ADA filers.
By Ross Todd | June 30, 2022
Alexia Cruz, the claim general counsel at insurer Travelers, predicts analytics will be "instrumental" in identifying cases that could yield nuclear verdicts so defendants and their insurers can put the right amount of resources towards those cases upfront.
By Ross Todd | June 27, 2022
"I think technology can definitely be your friend," Youngwood said. "What I hope is that it's used thoughtfully and appropriately."
By Ross Todd | June 23, 2022
Here's how the half dozen newly-minted partners at litigation boutiques who participated in Law.com's "How I Made Partner" series this past year described their career paths.
By Ross Todd | June 22, 2022
"If you hadn't before, you better write the best papers you can because that might be your only shot at winning a motion," says the veteran litigator of the growing momentum for judges to decide issues without oral argument.
By Ross Todd | June 16, 2022
Michael Maguire of ADR Services Inc., Paula Hannaford-Agor, the director of the Center for Jury Studies at the National Center for State Courts, and Orange County, California, plaintiffs lawyer Eric Traut lay out the case for embracing procedures allowing smaller juries.
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