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The Legal Intelligencer

Phila. Jury Hits Sig Sauer With $11M Verdict Over Alleged Gun Defect

The case is one of scores of lawsuits filed across the country alleging defects in the the Sig Sauer P320 cause the gun to unintentionally fire.
3 minute read

Litigation Daily

Trying a Case for Abu Ghraib Detainees Two Decades After Abuse

Patterson Belknap partners Muhammad Faridi and Michael Buchanan discuss the firm’s work that helped three men held prisoner at the notorious Iraqi prison win a $42 million verdict against a military contractor.
5 minute read

National Law Journal

Split 4th Circuit Ruling Is a Win for Covington & Burling in US Army Base Attack Litigation

"The federal government's interest in preventing military policy and base security from being governed by the laws of fifty-one separate sovereigns is 'obvious,'" Judge Allison Jones Rushing wrote in a Fourth Circuit majority opinion favoring Covington & Burling.
3 minute read

National Law Journal

A Conversation with NLJ Lifetime Achievement Award Winner Jeff Smith

"I hope honoring me with this award will inspire others to devote themselves to national security law, because it's so important," said Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer senior counsel Jeff Smith, co-recipient of the NLJ Lifetime Achievement Award.
11 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Chief Counsel to Gov. Murphy Set to Move to Lowenstein Sandler

Parimal Garg is the latest attorney to move from serving New Jersey's governor to a position at Lowenstein Sandler.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Defense Contractor Raytheon Settles Bribery, Allegations for $950 Million

Under the deal, prosecutors have agreed to dismiss the criminal charges against the defense company in three years if it abides by the terms of the deal, which include hiring an independent compliance monitor.
2 minute read

National Law Journal

Biden's Nominee Secures U.S. Senate Confirmation for Phila. Federal Judgeship

With Mary Kathleen Costello's confirmation, President Joe Biden has broken the record for appointing the most LGBTQ+ judges by any president in U.S. history, according to the office of U.S. Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pennsylvania,
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Saxton & Stump Adds Health Care Litigator From White and Williams

Daniel Ferhat, whose work centers on medical malpractice defense, spent over two decades at White and Williams.
3 minute read

National Law Journal

'Export Violations'?: RTX Settles Civil Charges With $200M Consent Agreement

Some of the alleged unauthorized exports consisted of "parts, components, and technical data related to sensitive U.S. and foreign government military platforms," such as the Tomahawk cruise missile, according to the proposed charging letter documenting alleged RTX violations.
3 minute read

Daily Report Online

A Looming Seismic Shift in the Rules of Evidence: The Far-Reaching Impact of Diaz v. United States

The aftershocks of the change in the rules of evidence brought about by the Diaz decision will not only be long, but very consequential.
9 minute read

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