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July 07, 2003 |

Amount of Verdicts Soared in California in 2002

The size of California's largest jury verdicts skyrocketed in 2002 as the corporate crime wave continued to dominate the headlines and court dockets.
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September 27, 1999 |

A $350M Boardwalk Bonanza

The six New Jersey lawyers who represented the state in the tobacco suit that ended as part of last fall's $206 billion national settlement could divide a pot of fees worth as much as $350 million over the next two decades. Remarkably, five of them had little or no tobacco litigation or mass tort experience. The one who did was bounced off the case on a conflict for much of the time.
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December 08, 1999 |

Winning the $65 Million Gamble

It is a deal so rich the firms are turning down most of their fees. Connecticut's $3.6 billion settlement with Big Tobacco is paying three in-state firms and one in Philadelphia a total of $65 million in legal fees, the firms have just disclosed. To many, this case didn't seem promising - or even possible at first. Just three years ago, what has become the most lucrative legal action in Connecticut history looked like a bad deal - too dangerous to touch.
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August 04, 2003 |

Breaking Up Is Hard to Do For Milberg Weiss

When news broke in June about the intended split of Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach, attorneys familiar with the firm were buzzing about a pair of letters. On May 30 William Lerach had written warning missives to two law firms that were acting as co-lead counsel in the massive securities fraud case involving WorldCom, Inc., in the Southern District of New York. In his letters to the lead counsel firms, Lerach warned them that they could be held liable if they put his clients' cases in jeopardy.
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April 21, 2010 |

Toyota to Pay Record $16.4 Mil. Fine in Run Up to Litigation

Toyota Motor Corp. agreed on Monday to pay a record $16.4 million fine that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, or NHTSA, imposed earlier this month after finding that Toyota waited four months to report sudden acceleration defects in its vehicles.
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Trial Still on Track for LG and Toshiba After Two More Companies Strike Deals in LCD Antitrust Case
Publication Date: 2012-04-26
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On Wednesday lawyers for LG at Munger Tolles and Paul Hastings asked U.S. District Judge Susan Illston to scrap her plans for a bifurcated May trial in the five-year-old MDL, explaining that with two new settlements last week, LG and Toshiba are the only defendants left. The judge rejected that argument at a hearing on Wednesday, opting to move forward with the trial as planned.

CLC/CFI Liquidating Trust v Bloomingdale's, Inc.
Publication Date: 2008-04-15
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Case number: 3244N 3244NA

Gonzalez, J.P., Williams, Catterson, Moskowitz, JJ. 3244N-3244NA Index 603859/03 The CLC/CFI Liquidating Trust, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v Bloomingdale

Resolute Posner Grants Class Cert Again in Sears Case
Publication Date: 2013-08-23
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Judge Richard Posner isn't going to budge in the war over class certification. The judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit upheld his grant of class certification in two class actions brought by owners of allegedly defective Whirlpool washing machines sold by Sears, Roebuck & Co.--even though the U.S. Supreme Court told him to reconsider.

Jones Day, Kirkland & Ellis Beat Back California State Court Appeal in Cipro Pay-To-Delay Case
Publication Date: 2011-11-01
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Since the Supreme Court denied cert in March in federal antitrust litigation over a $400 million Bayer settlement that kept Barr Labs from selling a Cipro knock-off, plaintiffs lawyers have pinned their hopes on state court litigation over the deal. Now those hopes have been considerably dimmed.

March 11, 2010 |

Plaintiffs Lawyers Jockey for Venue in Massive Toyota Litigation

Plaintiffs lawyers have been jockeying for a front seat in the mounting litigation arising from the sudden unintended acceleration problems in Toyota vehicles. About 150 lawyers assembled in Chicago recently to discuss sharing experts and legal strategies in the Toyota litigation, which now exceeds 80 lawsuits. Many lawyers have broken into camps based on which jurisdiction they believe should hear the multidistrict litigation against Toyota -- and which judge should decide the cases.
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