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October 05, 2009 |

THE PLAINTIFFS' HOT LIST

The firms selected for this year's honors are: Barroway Topaz Kessler Meltzer & Check; Berger & Montague; Bernstein Liebhard; Bernstein Litowitz; Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy; Coughlin Stoia; Grant & Eisenhofer; Hagens Berman; Labaton Sucharow; Lieff Cabraser; Milberg; Phillips & Cohen; Quinn Emanuel; Seeger Weiss; and Woodcock Washburn. Read on for the winning cases that earned these firms their place on the list.
19 minute read
March 04, 2000 |

Fort Reno

Attorney General Janet Reno is an ideal target for congressional calumny in Washington. She doesn't fight back. Since controversies surrounding her office usually involve pending investigations, Reno almost always considers her side of the story confidential, and will not even permit it to leak out through aides. And though she's unpopular in the Beltway, the AG is popular everywhere else because she is the un-Clinton -- a plainspoken public servant who couldn't care less what the punditocracy thinks.
28 minute read
December 12, 2006 |

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.
27 minute read
August 06, 2010 |

Forty Under Forty

Our annual look at 40 promising young professionals in New Jersey's legal community.
61 minute read
August 08, 2013 |

Unapproved Opinions

Opinions not approved for publication.
57 minute read
September 17, 2001 |

Selective Execution

Twenty-five years after the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment on the premise that "guided discretion" statutes would prevent the sentence from being arbitrarily enforced, the situation persists for a reason not addressed by guided discretion: The penalty is locally enforced. There isn't one death penalty in this country, but thousands, each as idiosyncratic as its jurisdiction. Witness Danville, Va., aka "Death City, USA."
24 minute read
January 31, 2011 |

Getting Fired: Don't Deal With the In-House Counsel and Deal With It Publicly?

Heaven forbid, IF you get fired, don't talk with the in-house counsel and deal with it in a public manner? Uh oh, that's not what an in-house lawyer wants to hear ...
157 minute read
January 15, 2007 |

The 2007 Legislative Wish List

As the 80th Session of the Texas Legislature gets into high gear, look for more legislative fireworks in the area of criminal law, particularly regarding enhanced criminalization for sex offenders.
48 minute read
May 14, 2009 |

What Makes a Court Supreme: Part 2

The New Jersey Law Journal publishes the second of nine weekly installments of What Makes a Court Supreme, Justice Daniel J. O'Hern's book about his years on the Wilentz Court. This installment concludes Chapter II: Chief Justice Robert N. Wilentz.
25 minute read
July 18, 2005 |

Unpublished Opinions

Unpublished state and federal court opinions.
38 minute read

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