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Amanda Bronstad is the ALM staff reporter covering class actions and mass torts nationwide. She writes the email dispatch Law.com Class Actions: Critical Mass. She is based in Los Angeles.
April 21, 2022 | Law.com
About 16% of attorneys appointed to leadership roles in multidistrict litigation created in 2021 identified as nonwhite, up slightly from 14% in 2020. In 2016, only 4% went to nonwhite attorneys.
By Amanda Bronstad
11 minute read
April 12, 2022 | Texas Lawyer
On Monday, lawyers at Gibson Dunn said U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria's statements about discovery sanctions were based on a "false and misleading account" by the plaintiffs' attorneys, who filed a sanctions motion last month in lawsuits against Facebook over the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
April 7, 2022 | Law.com
Matt Leckman, a partner at Littlepage Booth Leckman, represents the wife of a pilot allegedly sickened from toxic cabin air, which is caused when engine fumes seep into the cabin. Trial begins on April 18 in Chicago.
By Amanda Bronstad
8 minute read
March 11, 2022 | Law.com
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on Friday issued a mandate against U.S. District Judge Dan Polster, who is overseeing 3,000 opioid lawsuits in multidistrict litigation, for failing to address hundreds of remand motions pending before him for more than three years.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
March 11, 2022 | Law.com
The fees and costs outlined in the $26 billion opioid deal with Johnson & Johnson's Janssen Pharmaceuticals and three distributors are a mix of common benefit fees, contingency fees and payments to the states for outside counsel. One law professor said, "it's not like the lawyers are going to be impoverished."
By Amanda Bronstad
9 minute read
March 7, 2022 | Law.com
In a pair of orders on Monday, U.S. District Judge Dan Polster, among other findings, upheld his decision to excuse three unvaccinated jurors from the trial, concluding there was "no doubt that trial would have been disrupted."
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
February 25, 2022 | Law.com
Johnson & Johnson and three drug distributors—AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health and McKesson—agreed on Friday to move forward with the second largest multistate settlement in U.S. history after 90% of cities and counties signed up to obtain funds to combat the opioid crisis.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
January 19, 2022 | Texas Lawyer
The lawsuit, filed on Tuesday, alleges Houston-based Marker Group failed to safeguard medical records and other sensitive information compromised in a Sept. 3 cyberattack. Morgan & Morgan filed the class action with co-lead plaintiffs attorneys in the proton-pump inhibitor multidistrict litigation in New Jersey.
By Amanda Bronstad
3 minute read
January 7, 2022 | Texas Lawyer
The Ferraro Law Firm in Miami has accused lead counsel in the multidistrict litigation over Johnson & Johnson's talcum powder of a "money grab" by collecting potential common benefit fees on two dozen lawsuits he settled.
By Amanda Bronstad
6 minute read
October 25, 2021 | Texas Lawyer
Some lawyers who have handled trials this year say the COVID-19 pandemic has clouded how jurors perceive scientific and medical testimony, but others aren't convinced that juries have changed that much. More apparent, lawyers say, is that the political polarization surrounding the pandemic has seeped into the jury pool.
By Amanda Bronstad
13 minute read
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