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  • July 22, 2021 | Law.com

    Law.com Litigation Trendspotter: As Sunscreen Consumer Class Actions Swell, Personal Injury Claims Are Riding the Wave Behind Them

    Spurred by recent recalls, personal injury firms around the country this week began soliciting for potential clients who believe their cancer is linked to their sunscreen use.

    6 minute read

  • July 19, 2021 | Law.com

    Lawyers Say More Sunscreen Recalls—and Lawsuits—Are on the Horizon

    Johnson & Johnson's July 14 recall of five sunscreen products found to contain dangerous levels of benzene only scratches the surface, say lawyers, who are preparing for more lawsuits—and more recalls.

    6 minute read

  • July 7, 2021 | The Legal Intelligencer

    New Litigation Links Sleep Machines to Lung Cancer

    A week earlier, the Philadelphia-based national plaintiffs' law firm Berger Montague filed a potential class action lawsuit against the Dutch medical equipment company over the same kinds of products.

    4 minute read

  • Adirondack Council Inc. v. Town of Clare

    Publication Date: 2021-05-25
    Practice Area: Administrative Law
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court, St. Lawrence
    Judge: Justice Mary Farley
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Attorneys for Petitioner: Scott B. Goldie, Esq., of counsel, Conboy, McKay, Bachman & Kendall, LLP.
    for defendant: Attorneys for Respondent: Eric J. Gustafson, Esq., of counsel, Pease and Gustafson, LLP.
    Case Number: EFCV-20-158776

    Town's All-Terrain Vehicle Use Law Is Valid; Town Satisfied Its Obligations Under SEQRA

  • May 5, 2021 | Law.com

    Q&A: Danielle Mason Discusses Post-Pandemic Travel, Consumer Products She's Watching

    Mason, a personal injury lawyer at Sanders Phillips Grossman, said she's keeping an eye on consumer products and environmental contamination affecting minority populations. "These are products that have been around and have been overlooked because it's an underserved community that no one is paying attention to it," she said.

    1 minute read

  • April 27, 2021 | Legaltech News

    Change Is Hard for Attorneys; Change Management Is Even Harder for Tech Providers

    The customer is always right, which means that the burden is on legal tech vendors to ensure that clients enjoy a smooth change management process when onboarding a new piece of technology—or risk seeing that tech get thrown out.

    1 minute read

  • March 24, 2021 | The American Lawyer

    The Tables Have Turned: What 20 Years of M&A Data Reveals About the Changing Big Law Hierarchy

    Driven by economic and industrial transformation, the landscape of law firm M&A practices has been redrawn, as seen in a review of two decades of league tables.

    1 minute read

  • January 8, 2021 | The Recorder

    On the Move Promotion Edition: Newly Minted Partners at California Law Firms

    New promotions from across the California legal market.

    1 minute read

  • Carl v. Johnson & Johnson

    Publication Date: 2020-08-17
    Practice Area: Products Liability
    Industry: Consumer Products
    Court: Appellate Division
    Judge: Judge Alvarez
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard M. Golomb (D'Amato Law Firm, Golomb & Honik, PC, and Ted G. Meadows (Beasley Allen Crow Methvin Portis & Miles, PC) of the Alabama bar, admitted pro hac vice, attorneys; Paul R. D'Amato, Richard M. Golomb, Tammi Markowitz, and Ted G. Meadows, on the briefs)
    for defendant: Susan M. Sharko and Kaitlyn E. Stone (Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP and John H. Beisner, Jessica D. Miller, and Geoffrey M. Wyatt (Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP) of the District of Columbia bar, admitted pro hac vice, attorneys; Susan M. Sharko, John H. Beisner, Jessica D. Miller, and Geoffrey M. Wyatt, on the briefs); Coughlin Duffy LLP, and Nancy M. Erfle (Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP) of the Oregon bar, admitted pro hac vice and Michael R. Klatt and Leslie A. Benitez (Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP) of the Texas bar, admitted pro hac vice (Lorna A. Dotro, Mark K. Silver, Nancy M. Erfle, Michael R. Klatt, and Leslie A. Benitez, of counsel and on the briefs)
    Case Number: A-0387-16T1; A-0978-16T1

    Trial Court Erred in Precluding Expert Testimony Based on Trial Court's Rejection of the Merits of the Testimony

  • Bowden et al. v. The Medical Center, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2020-08-05
    Practice Area: Class Actions | Health Care Law
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Melton
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Frank Mitchell Lowrey, Michael Rosen Baumrind, Michael Brian Terry, (Bondurant Mixson & Elmore LLP), Atlanta, Charles A. Gower, Charles Austin Gower, (Charles A. Gower, P.C.), Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: William N. Withrow, Lindsey Bowen Mann, (Troutman Sanders, LLP), Atlanta, Paul Douglas Ivey, Robert Calhoun Martin, Lauren King Dimitri, (Hall Booth Smith, P.C.), Columbus, Miller Peterson Robinson, (King & Spalding LLP), Atlanta, for appellee. Curtis Allen Garrett, James Francis Bogan, (Kilpatrick Stockton LLP), Atlanta, Robert Perry Sentell, Joseph Hixon Huff, (Kilpatrick Stockton LLP), Augusta, for Amicus Appellant. Jason Edward Bring, Chesley Sellers McLeod, William Jerad Rissler, (Arnall Golden Gregory LLP), Atlanta, for other party.
    Case Number: S19G0494

    Court reverses class certification, and rules that a hospital was entitled to summary judgment on patient's fraud, misrepresentation, and RICO Act claims