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Texas Lawyer

$400M Settlement Means 'Everyone Wins,' According to Counsel

"This could've been an incredible lawbook study on how construction projects go into prolonged litigation. Even though the dispute board would have made a determination, it would've been appealed," Robert Peckar of Peckar & Abramson said.
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Daily Report Online

They Didn't Know the Jury Was About to Return $23M—So They Settled for $10M

"The foreperson and several other jurors told us that they had been 10 seconds away from submitting the verdict that they had already agreed upon," said Jeb Butler of Butler Khan. "The verdict was for the [plaintiff's] family in the amount of $23 million, with 75% of the fault placed on [the defendant] and 25% on [the plaintiff]."
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Texas Lawyer

$240M Verdict: Law Firms Join Forces for Massive Victory

"Entrepreneurs should also take heart knowing that regardless of the size or scale of their company, patents will be enforced and protected by the courts," StreamScale attorney Jamie McDole said.
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New Jersey Law Journal

'Nothing Short of a Disaster': Lawyer's Improper Questioning Spawns New Trial

Attacking the character or morals of a witness, when they are not in issue, is viewed as "a particularly reprehensible type of impropriety," the appellate panel found.
4 minute read

Texas Lawyer

REVERSED: $3.2M Award Undone Amid Lengthy Dissent Over Stray Cow

The trial court found Victor Ybarra's testimony uncredible; the testimony of an interested witness raises a fact issue, and whether to credit that testimony is a question for the factfinder, Justice Gordon Goodman noted in his dissent.
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Texas Lawyer

Plaintiffs Pitted Against Each Other as Insurance Settlement in Doubt

"Appellants' arguments that Texas law, not federal bankruptcy law, controls are incorrect. We find the pre-petition payment doesn't affect the debtor's equitable interest in them at the time the petition was filed," wrote Fifth Circuit Judge Stephen A. Higginson.
3 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

$19.5M Settlement in Case Where Janitor Drove School Bus

The settlements were reached following mediation with Stephen Orlofsky, a former federal judge who is now with Blank Rome in Princeton.
4 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Lawyers Set Out to Prove 'Egregious Emotional Distress'—a High Hurdle

Andrew Lieb, the complainant's attorney, said the police report is particularly damning. "I would be mortified if I was associated with a place like this," he said.
4 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

REVERSED: J&J Crushes $223M Nuclear Verdict

"This marks the third time in three years that an appellate court has overturned outsized verdicts that asbestos lawyers secured by confusing and misleading juries with unscientific opinions touting baseless liability theories," Erik Haas, worldwide vice president of litigation for Johnson & Johnson, said in a statement.
5 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Small Law Firm Wins $10.5M Judgment in Hidalgo County

Hyster-Yale chose not to offer any occupant restraint system or occupant compartment enclosure even though safer alternative designs existed, the plaintiff's amended complaint asserted.
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