As published on Legal Newsline: Public nuisance may be the most successful legal theory ever to have failed in court. States and municipalities this year negotiated $26 billion in settlements with the Big Three drug distributors and Johnson & Johnson Read more…
As published on Legal Newsline: CLEVELAND, March 23, 2021 (Legal Newsline) – As multidistrict litigation swamps federal courts, the judge overseeing the multibillion-dollar opioid MDL demonstrated why plaintiff lawyers love the strategy so much: Because it is extremely effective at Read more…
Judge John Shepard Wiley reluctantly concurred with a recent California appellate decision allowing a Los Angeles Unified School District teacher to sue for failure to accommodate her claimed disability: Acute sensitivity to wi-fi signals. But his concurrence lays out the Read more…
MDLs were supposed to be a more efficient way of handling mass-tort lawsuits but unethical practices and the incentives of corporate defendants combine to deliver poor results to plaintiffs. As reported on Legal Newsline: PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 11 (Legal Newsline) – Read more…
“For a case where the plaintiffs got zero, we feel the plaintiffs’ lawyers shouldn’t get anything more.”
In a pattern seen previously in settlements over the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, NFL concussion suits and other large MDLs, the lawyers representing real, living clients negotiated an additional settlement on behalf of anyone else who might sue in the future.
As published on Legal Newsline: NEWARK, N.J., May 8, 2020 – A litigation finance company whose colorful history includes a federal criminal investigation and a multiyear battle over millions of dollars in legal fees stemming from a Siberian plane crash Read more…
As published on Legal Newsline: CINCINNATI (April 20, 2020) – Facing a string of damaging rulings by the judge overseeing sprawling litigation against them, some of the nation’s leading retail pharmacy chains resorted to the equivalent of a Hail Mary Read more…
At the median of cases studied – meaning half were higher, and half were lower – lawyers representing the class were paid more than the class itself.
An Ohio county that settled opioid lawsuits last year for $105 million paid more than $1 million in legal fees to two law firms that never appeared on any of the court filings, including one associated with a prominent Washington lobbyist whose firm represented multiple companies being sued by the county.