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Defenders rack up wins in nine high-stakes cases
Considering the obstacles that defense attorneys encountered, such as plaintiff-friendly venues, the amount of damages at stake and if similar cases to be tried would be affected, these are the nine remaining cases selected by The National Law Journal for the best defense wins of 2004.Who Killed the Mass Torts Bonanza?
The power of the plaintiffs bar is on the wane in this country, and will be for a long time to come. To be sure, plaintiffs lawyers and mass torts aren't going to disappear. There will always be people injured by the products or actions of big corporations, and there's still money to be made representing them. But the bonanza -- the Wild West era in which mass torts was an unfettered frontier and plaintiffs lawyers seemed to have all the firepower -- is over.'Biggest Trial in World' Not Dimmed by Time
For prosecutors and defense counsel alike, the 1982 trial of Wayne Bertram Williams, the man accused of being the serial killer who stalked Atlanta's children for two years, was the trial of a lifetime. Twenty years later, the attorneys' recollections of the trial's most minute details are as vivid as ever -- as they recount the breathtaking twists and turns of the famous case.