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Our crazy tort system

Our crazy tort system

Judge Sees Trouble In Teacher’s Wi-Fi Exposure Lawsuit

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 risks of allowing such cases to proceed, especially in California, Read more…

By dan@waldenconsultants.com, 2 yearsFebruary 23, 2021 ago
Opioid crisis

Plaintiff Lawyer Dishes Out Fierce Criticism Of Multidistrict Litigation

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) – Federal multidistrict litigation, a procedure intended to resolve mass-tort lawsuits Read more…

By dan@waldenconsultants.com, 2 years ago
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Long-Running Whistleblower Case Yields Zero Damages For Plaintiffs, But Might Earn Millions For Their Lawyers

“For a case where the plaintiffs got zero, we feel the plaintiffs’ lawyers shouldn’t get anything more.”

By dan@waldenconsultants.com, 2 yearsNovember 9, 2020 ago
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Roundup deal: Big money for lawyers, an out for Bayer and a chance to see if lawsuits had any merit

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.

By dan@waldenconsultants.com, 3 yearsJune 25, 2020 ago
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Legal Funding Dispute Caps A Tangled, Colorful History

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 has sued a prominent New Jersey personal injury lawyer for Read more…

By dan@waldenconsultants.com, 3 years ago
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Roundup, Talc Cases Raise Question: What if Juries Get Science Wrong?

As published on Legal Newsline’s Northern California Record: SAN FRANCISCO, July 22, 2019 – On one coast, Bayer AG is fighting to reverse eye-popping jury verdicts based on a contested theory Roundup herbicide made by its Monsanto unit causes cancer. On the other, Johnson & Johnson begins hearings this week Read more…

By dan@waldenconsultants.com, 4 yearsJuly 23, 2019 ago
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Roundup Jury Awards $2 Billion After Lawyers Shift Burden of Proof to Monsanto

As reported on Legal Newsline: San Francisco, May 14: On April 30, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency declared glyphosate, the active ingredient in the widely used weedkiller Roundup, to be safe. Less than two weeks later, a California jury ordered Bayer AG to pay $2 billion to a couple who Read more…

By dan@waldenconsultants.com, 4 years ago
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Art Imitates Life: ‘Billions’ Describes Cush Asbestos Trust Work

The third season of the wildly popular show “Billions” premiered in March with a mention of an oddly arcane subject: asbestos bankruptcy trusts. The dialogue coming out of the mouth of prosecutor Chuck Rhodes, played by Paul Giamatti, becomes a little less mysterious when you look at who wrote it, Read more…

By dan@waldenconsultants.com, 5 years ago
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In New York City, Lawyers Compete On Everything But Fees

A trove of data revealing the contingency fees charged by New York City lawyers suggests that in virtually every tort case, lawyers charge the full one-third allowed under state regulations. Researchers at Claremont McKenna College and the USC Gould School of Law obtained retainer and closing statements for nearly 300,000 Read more…

By dan@waldenconsultants.com, 5 years ago
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Climb A Tower Illegally, Get Shocked, Get A Shot At $20 Million

(Note: The jury ultimately tossed this case on Aug. 22, refusing to find the railroad responsible) NEW HAVEN, Conn. (Legal Newsline) – The facts in Colon v. Metro-North Commuter Railroad are as clear as a jolt from a high-tension power line: Plaintiff Omar Milton Colon trespassed on a railroad right-of-way Read more…

By dan@waldenconsultants.com, 6 yearsAugust 16, 2017 ago
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  • Judge Sees Trouble In Teacher’s Wi-Fi Exposure Lawsuit
  • Plaintiff Lawyer Dishes Out Fierce Criticism Of Multidistrict Litigation
  • Long-Running Whistleblower Case Yields Zero Damages For Plaintiffs, But Might Earn Millions For Their Lawyers
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