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By Amanda Bronstad | May 31, 2017
Plaintiffs attorneys suing over the Sanofi breast cancer drug Taxotere say the company's lawyers should be penalized for making an "unseemly attempt" to reveal funding arrangements.
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By Amanda Bronstad | May 26, 2017
It's time to give judges clear rules for managing MDLs, says John Rabiej, director of Duke Law School's Center for Judicial Studies. For starters, he'd spread the biggest cases across more judges.
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By Jenna Greene | May 24, 2017
Poor U.S. District Judge Joseph Goodwin. The West Virginia judge had the biggest backlog of any federal judge in the country, with 20,139 cases pending for more than three years, according to a new report. Who else is in the slow lane?
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By Jenna Greene | May 19, 2017
A team from Kirkland & Ellis led by partner Craig Primis persuaded a federal judge in New York to toss a pair of suits alleging that Facebook Inc. supports terrorist organizations by allowing the groups to use its platform.
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By Amanda Bronstad | May 18, 2017
Accused of not disclosing payments to two expert witnesses, Houston plaintiffs attorney W. Mark Lanier is throwing a similar charge at Johnson & Johnson's defense.
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By Amanda Bronstad | May 4, 2017
A federal jury in New Orleans deliberated for less than two hours before coming back this week with a defense win in the first bellwether trial over the blood thinner Xarelto. That's a bona fide slam dunk--even for lead defense counsel Beth Wilkinson, who's notched a streak of trial victories in her career.
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By Amanda Bronstad | May 4, 2017
Hoping to reverse a $502 million loss, lawyers for Johnson & Johnson are attacking Houston attorney W. Mark Lanier. But he says the campaign "fails to tell the whole story."
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By Amanda Bronstad | May 4, 2017
In five trials over the safety of its talcum powder, Johnson & Johnson has racked up four losses. Thursday's verdict from a Missouri jury was the biggest blow so far.
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By Meredith Hobbs | May 1, 2017
In 20 years as a San Francisco plaintiffs lawyer, Lori Andrus has secured top roles in mass tort cases against companies including Farmers Group, Bayer and Johnson & Johnson over pay discrimination, defective birth control and other ills. She wants more women to join her.
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By Max Mitchell | April 19, 2017
The first lawsuit filed in Pennsylvania over the shingles vaccine has been dismissed with a federal judge saying the suit was begun after the statute of limitations had run out.
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