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August 01, 2002 |

Working Pro Bono Forges New Ties

The daily practice of pro bono law in New York, like so many other things following the Sept. 11 attacks, has radically changed. Clients have myriad legal difficulties met with a whole new "one-stop" shopping model. And their lawyers have struck personal bonds that promise to achieve the vision of Judith S. Kaye, Chief Judge of the State of New York: Keep the momentum of volunteerism going for years to come.
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March 23, 2010 |

HRT Plaintiffs Can't Take Cases to Minn., Phila. Judge Rules

A Philadelphia judge has asked the state Superior Court to uphold his ruling that two plaintiffs alleging their breast cancer was caused by hormone replacement therapy drugs could not end their lawsuits in Philadelphia Common Pleas Court and seek to file their cases instead in Minnesota, which has a six-year statute of limitations.
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August 27, 2012 |

The Right to Conduct Expert Depositions

Diane K. Kanca and Howard S. Jacobowitz, partners at McDonough Law, write: New York does not permit expert depositions without a showing of "special circumstances," while the federal courts and 44 other states' courts permit the depositions of testifying experts as a matter of right.
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July 23, 2010 |

Pa. Supreme Court Rejects Reconsidering HRT Case

Despite a plaintiff's argument that upholding the dismissal of the first hormone replacement therapy tort case to reach Pennsylvania's highest court conflicts with succeeding case law in Pennsylvania's HRT litigation, the state Supreme Court is leaving intact a judgment notwithstanding the verdict in favor of drugmaker Wyeth.
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February 09, 2011 |

ABA's midyear meeting events tackle funding, jobs and race

Money, jobs and race are some of the big topics at the American Bar Association's midyear meeting, which convenes at the downtown Marriott Marquis in Atlanta today and runs through Feb. 14.High-powered lawyers and judges will address funding shortfalls for state courts and keeping clients happy with alternatives to billing by the hour at two featured panels.
6 minute read
April 19, 2013 |

Legal Aid Agencies To Get Corporate Help

Connecticut Supreme Court Chief Justice Chase T. Rogers was invited to a White House forum to describe Connecticut's efforts to keep courthouse doors open for its citizens who cannot afford lawyers.
8 minute read
September 12, 2012 |

Supreme Court Mulls Punitive Damages in HRT Case

As the state Supreme Court on Tuesday considered a punitive damages award of $8.6 million for a breast cancer survivor who took Wyeth's hormone replacement therapy drug Prempro, Justice Seamus P. McCaffery asked during oral arguments in Philadelphia whether it would be absurd to allow punitive damages in the case of a drug approved by federal authorities.
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February 22, 2010 |

Deliberations Continue Today in Latest HRT Trial

After an hour of deliberation Friday and four weeks of trial, a Philadelphia jury will continue its work today in a lawsuit over whether drugmaker Wyeth's hormonal drug caused an Alabama plaintiff's breast cancer.
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July 01, 2013 |

A Fresh Look at Advance Waivers

In his Professional Responsibility column, Anthony E. Davis, a partner at Hinshaw & Culbertson, analyzes a decision in which, for the first time, the court lays out a road map for how to create an advance waiver that has a realistic prospect of being enforced even over the client's subsequent change of heart.
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April 03, 2012 |

The Perils of State Human Rights Litigation

Although Shell's counsel are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to affirm the Second Circuit's conclusion in Kiobel that corporations can't be held liable under the the Alien Tort Statute, they stress that corporations can still be sued under state law. What they don't stress is that, when those state claims arrive, the defense will try to eviscerate them.
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