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February 10, 2012 |

5 Costly Moments in Electronic Discovery

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March 21, 2005 |

Pretrial Process for Vioxx Litigation Begins

Dozens of lawyers filed into a federal courtroom Friday for a first pretrial hearing in the federal Vioxx liability case, the start of a legal process expected to be complex, years-long and costly for the painkiller's maker, Merck & Co. After the pretrial activities, the federal cases will be returned to their original jurisdictions for trial. Drug industry analysts have differing estimates of Merck's potential total liability in the Vioxx cases: from $4 billion to $30 billion.
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July 01, 2005 |

Motivated by Race Court to Reconsider

Eliott C. McLaughlinSpecial to the Daily ReportA recent U.S. Supreme Court decision has forced Atlanta's federal appeals court to revisit a 17-year-old murder conviction and death sentence-and what one judge called "a shameful history" of an Ocmulgee Circuit prosecutor who excluded black citizens from jury pools.
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December 11, 2006 |

Response to Counterclaim

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October 30, 2007 |

Focus on copyright

The New York Times Co., Time Inc. and Newsweek Inc., among a dozen of the nation's largest publishers, have banded together with university presses, academic journals and national library associations to oppose a Florida freelance photographer whose 10-year battle to collect royalties from National Geographic could redefine the limits of copyright protection.
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June 26, 2003 |

Family Ties Bind Lawyer in BellSouth Race Case

Jonathan [email protected] in the law are honored traditions in some families, but for an Alabama federal judge and his nephew, their shared profession may be causing more aggravation than ancestral pride.Last week, a split federal appeals panel refused to disturb a decision that booted Birmingham lawyer Terry Price as defense counsel for BellSouth Corp.
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Kirkland and BP: Reunited for the Gulf Oil Spill?
Publication Date: 2010-05-05
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Back in the 1980s, Kirkland helped BP predecessor Amoco weather the litigation fallout from a record-setting supertanker spill off the coast of France. We're hearing that BP is planning to call on its old friends from K&E to contain the damage from the Gulf Coast spill as well. Plus: BP is enjoined from demanding indemnity from cleanup volunteers; and the plaintiffs bar begins to fire up cases.

June 22, 2010 |

Scuba divers bring oil-spill suit; lawyers gush into New Orleans

Plaintiffs' lawyers are converging on New Orleans Wednesday for another Gulf Coast oil spill gathering to discuss everything from the parallels with the Exxon Valdez disaster to the best trial techniques to nail an oil giant. Among the lawsuits gushing from the disaster is one filed on behalf of a scuba diving company which claims the spill has scared off customers.
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June 23, 2010 |

Plaintiffs Lawyers Gather to Strategize Oil Spill Suits

Plaintiffs lawyers are converging on New Orleans today for another Gulf Coast oil spill gathering to discuss everything from the parallels with the Exxon Valdez disaster to the best trial techniques to nail an oil giant. No doubt the lawyers will also consider Tuesday's decision by U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman of New Orleans to block the Obama administration's six-month moratorium on deep-water drilling. And with the oil still gushing, cases keep coming. The latest to join the fray: scuba divers.
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