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December 10, 2012 |

Jury Sides With Defense After Two Mistrials in Trip-and-Fall Case

After two mistrials over the course of the past year, a unanimous 12-member jury has sided with the defense in a case in which a woman alleged she suffered a traumatic brain injury when she tripped on an uneven portion of sidewalk outside a rehabilitation facility in King of Prussia, Pa.
5 minute read
June 21, 1999 |

Plaintiffs Lawyers

Liberated from the world of hourly billing, plaintiffs lawyer play a high-stakes game of absolute windfall or absolute ruin. They're investors in a business that pushes one product: the injured plaintiff.
13 minute read
January 28, 2009 |

In peanut checks, gaps for salmonella to sneak by

ATLANTA AP - Food regulators didn't consider salmonella a threat to most peanut products before they traced an outbreak to a peanut butter plant in Georgia two years ago. Officials in the nation's top peanut-producing state promptly began checking for the bacteria during routine inspections, and everything went fine for about a year.
5 minute read
February 13, 2006 |

Appeals Court Nominee Has History With 9th Circuit

Sandra Segal Ikuta, nominated to the 9th Circuit on Wednesday, clerked for both 9th Circuit Judge Alex Kozinski and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and has been general counsel to the California Resources Agency since 2004. The former O'Melveny & Myers partner, described as a moderate conservative, is known for her lightning-fast mind and unusual background. Before going to law school, Ikuta was an editor of martial arts magazines such as Inside Kung Fu.
4 minute read
April 02, 1999 |

Where There's Smoke . . .

Jurors in the largest tobacco case in U.S. history sit in a mostly empty Miami courtroom. The media are nowhere to be found. It's been six months and the trial is far from over. Although this may be the tobacco trial that time forgot, the potential stakes in the class action are enormous. A verdict with millions in damages against the industry could lead to a "domino effect" that would cripple the industry.
10 minute read
May 07, 1999 |

Searching For Answers To Littleton

After two students at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., killed 12 classmates, a teacher and themselves, people around the country proposed ways to keep that horror from recurring. Some say make parents responsible for the criminal actions of their children. But criminal liability, while perhaps satisfying an immediate emotional need, is not the way to go, say attorneys in Connecticut.
7 minute read
November 04, 2009 |

"Force of Nature" John M. O'Quinn Remembered at Funeral

Professor Gerald Treece noted that O'Quinn had conquered the "monster of alcoholism" more than a decade ago, but he was still fighting the "monster of low self-esteem," despite his tremendous success as a trial lawyer. O'Quinn's pastor asked the more than 2,000 people who attended the funeral to pray for O'Quinn and described him as a man of "overwhelming contradictions."
3 minute read
September 06, 2005 |

Davis Wright Scores Coup by Hosting Part of Chinese President's U.S. Visit

Former Washington Gov. Gary Locke -- and his Davis Wright Tremaine colleagues -- will host part of Chinese President Hu Jintao's historic visit to the U.S. this week, a move that partners tout as a coup for the firm's growing China practice. Davis Wright is one of many West Coast firms that have been promoting their China practices as the Chinese economy continues to boom.
3 minute read
July 16, 2009 |

Tolkien heirs sue for 'Rings' money

5 minute read
March 26, 2010 |

Unpublished Opinions

Unpublished state and federal court cases.
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