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October 09, 2000 |

ATLA's War Room

When trial lawyers team up for coordinated attacks, it's rarely as public as a Firestone or fen-phen fusillade. The 61 American Trial Lawyers Association litigation groups usually operate beneath the consciousness of everyone but the defense lawyers in the industries they target. The groups work in secret in order for plaintiffs' lawyers to share information, and to keep defense-side infiltrators out.
6 minute read
May 11, 2012 |

Inadmissible

Short takes on lawyers, firms and judges.
5 minute read
June 03, 2003 |

Firestone's Secret Recipe

The plaintiffs in some 150 cases alleging Firestone tire-tread separations and Ford Explorer rollover accidents failed to show how access to the tire maker's skim-stock formulas is necessary for a "fair adjudication" of their claims, the Texas Supreme Court held. The decision that the trade secrets don't have to be disclosed is significant for the Firestone litigation nationwide, says its counsel Marie Yeates.
6 minute read
March 04, 2013 |

U.S. Tax Court Rules McAllen Lawyers Used Improper Tax Shelter

A federal tax court judge issued a ruling Feb. 14 finding three personal injury lawyers in the Rio Grande Valley used an improper tax shelter to reduce tax liabilities from contingent fees they received in 2001 from Firestone tire litigation.
4 minute read
October 25, 2001 |

Ford Settles Ignition Suit; Could Cost Automaker $2.7 Billion

Ford Motor Co. agreed Thursday to reimburse current and former owners for repairs on millions of cars and trucks prone to stall because of a flawed ignition system. The deal approved by a California judge could cost the automaker $2.7 billion, plaintiffs said. The settlement was approved as the beleaguered automaker weathers a series of setbacks, including an erosion in sales and the costly Firestone tire situation.
4 minute read
November 29, 2007 |

Ford Agrees to Settle Explorer Rollover Suit Covering 1 Million Owners in Four States

Ford Motor Co. on Wednesday ended an era of litigation over its rollover-plagued Explorer sport utility vehicles when it agreed to settle a class action covering about 1 million plaintiffs in California, Connecticut, Illinois and Texas who claimed their Explorers were prone to flip, according to a co-counsel for the SUV owners. A Ford spokeswoman said the deal ends all the outstanding rollover-related lawsuits against the company.
4 minute read
March 11, 2003 |

Outside Counsel

9 minute read
May 24, 2013 |

Ropers Majeski Tries to Re-Invent Itself

5 minute read
January 05, 2007 |

Wall, plaintiff-appellant v. CSX Transportation Inc., defendants-appellees

Fraudulent Inducement Claim Valid Under New York, Pennsylvania Law Not Pre-Empted by Railway Safety Act
30 minute read
October 28, 2004 |

'PR' Stands for 'Profit' at Locke Liddell

11 minute read

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