By Ross Todd | November 6, 2023
Hildy Sastre, the co-chair of the product liability litigation practice group at Shook, Hardy & Bacon, who regularly defends large companies discusses strategies for dealing with anti-corporate sentiment among prospective jurors.
By Ross Todd | September 8, 2023
The FTC and six state attorneys general dropped their challenge to the merger just 10 days after litigators at Cravath, Swaine & Moore and Cooley, repping Amgen and Horizon respectively, filed opposition briefs pushing back against the agency's preliminary injunction bid.
By Ross Todd | July 12, 2023
With Bart Williams of Proskauer and Devora Allon of Kirkland representing Gilead and Christopher Holding of Goodwin Procter representing Teva, the pharmaceutical companies beat back $3.6 billion in antitrust claims at trial in San Francisco stemming from an alleged "pay-for-delay" scheme involving two HIV drugs.
By Ross Todd | June 2, 2023
Davis Polk's Marshall Huebner and Benjamin Kaminetzky helped convince the Second Circuit to overturn a district court ruling finding the bankruptcy code didn't authorize liability releases for the Sackler family, the founders of the OxyContin maker.
By Ross Todd | April 17, 2023
"In-house counsel must be quite involved to establish this culture of collaboration and trust [between lawyers at different firms]," Barrett said. "I think it's a lot more work, but you get better results."
Litigation Daily | Conversation
By Ross Todd | November 10, 2022
"It's going to create a very formidable plaintiffs bar in our country going forward given the level of expertise provided to a new group of younger lawyers," says Jayne Conroy of Simmons Hanly Conroy, one of the three co-leads of the plaintiffs' executive committee in the National Prescription Opiate Litigation MDL.
Litigation Daily | Conversation
By Ross Todd | November 9, 2022
"The trial is the place where—win or lose—the information gets out to the public and people can start to look at it and even build on it for the next case that comes around," says Conroy, one of the three co-leads of the plaintiffs' executive committee in the National Prescription Opiate Litigation MDL.
By Ross Todd | November 3, 2022
Michael Ullmann, the outgoing GC of Johnson & Johnson, and David Battisti, the GC of Penske Transportation Solutions, gave a window into difficult litigation discussions with executives and corporate board during a summit on law, policy and politics sponsored by the Institute for Legal Reform at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
By Ross Todd | October 18, 2022
A half-dozen years after the first cases seeking to hold drug companies, distributors and pharmacies liable for the costs of dealing with the opioid crisis, our colleague Amanda Bronstad gives a thorough rundown of the current state of play.
By Ross Todd | August 31, 2022
"Organon has an active and public commitment to gender parity and diversity that extends into our relationships with our legal partners," Peeples says. "So we really encourage the use of diverse legal teams, and that includes gender, racial, ethnic, religious, LGBTQ+, for staffing."
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