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August 22, 2011 |

On the Rise: Nels S.D. Peterson

As adviser to former Gov. Sonny Perdue and current Georgia Attorney General Sam Olens, Nels S.D. Peterson has had a hand in nearly every big state legal case in the last few years.Peterson is working on the state's ongoing water war with Alabama and Florida, the investigation into systemwide cheating in Atlanta Public Schools and the fight to deepen the Savannah harbor.
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July 01, 2010 |

Big Deals

CenturyTel / Qwest; UAL Corporation / Continental; SAP / Sybase
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June 08, 2010 |

BP shareholders bring latest class action in western Louisiana

Plaintiffs' lawyers filing the latest oil spill lawsuit against BP decided to bypass the federal trial court in New Orleans with its raft of conflicted-out judges. Instead, the team of seven firms filed a securities fraud class action in the Western District of Louisiana on June 7.
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May 04, 2010 |

Lawsuits Over Oil Rig Disaster Spill Into Court in Louisiana, Mississippi

More litigation is gushing out of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, with suits filed in federal court in Mississippi and Louisiana on Monday, and more set to follow today. The suits allege that BP, Transocean Ltd., Halliburton Energy Services and Cameron International were negligent in failing to properly inspect and maintain the Deepwater Horizon rig that exploded on April 20, burned and collapsed.
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May 03, 2010 |

Lawsuits over oil rig disaster spill into court in Louisiana, Mississippi

More litigation is gushing out of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. In Mississippi, two commercial shrimpers on Monday filed a $5 million class action in federal court, alleging the oil spill could destroy their livelihoods. In Louisiana, plaintiffs lawyers have proposed class actions in federal court in New Orleans on behalf of fishing companies claiming financial injuries from the spill.
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Parsing GSK's Mass Tort Settlement Strategy: How the Paxil and Avandia Deals Buck Conventional Pharma Wisdom
Publication Date: 2010-06-23
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In the Avandia and Paxil mass torts, there's been no testing of liability through a series of bellwether trials and no mass claims process. Instead GSK has cherry-picked plaintiffs lawyers and settled their dockets relatively early. Has Glaxo found a new way to resolve mass torts--or is it making a big mistake?

January 07, 2003 |

U.S. Seeking Share of Payout on Implants

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June 21, 2010 |

Civil Actions

Tie-breaker? A move's afoot to bring retired Supreme Court justices back to the high court bench when a recusal could result in the dreaded 4-4 split. Also in this week's Inadmissible: Cobell extensions may run out of time; Dawn Johnsen's first public remarks since her failed nomination; a DOJ reunion of sorts; Chamber steps up fight against McConnell; judge seeks speedy justice on Wone trail; and a lobby shop Thais one on.
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January 07, 2003 |

U.S. Seeks Share of Breast Implant Payout

Nine years and at least $1 billion ago, class action plaintiffs settled their claims with makers of silicone breast implants. But ever since the settlement, the U.S. government has argued that taxpayers should be reimbursed for Medicare payments made on behalf of women who claimed implants made them ill. On Friday, a three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments on the matter.
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September 10, 2009 |

Policyholders Filing More Suspicious Claims -- or Are They?

More Americans are filing suspicious insurance claims this year, making allegedly bogus efforts to collect on everything from broken glass to car fires, according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau. In a report released Wednesday, the NICB, a trade group for the insurance industry that monitors fraud, said roughly 41,600 "questionable claims" were reported by insurance companies in the first half of 2009, a 13 percent increase from last year. But at least one plaintiffs attorney questions the findings.
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