Due to its role in litigation, it’s  interesting to watch the changes in the Delaware judiciary. The latest likely appointees, and some...

Slater & Gordon is a publicly traded, global plaintiff’s firm. It’s now restructuring to cope with too much expansion too quickly, and...

Most cancer trials are tough for most asbestos defendants to win, in most venues. The point is highlighted by a news story out of Japan,...

Delaware’s “activist judges” remain hard at work on paring back “disclosure suits” in securities cases, with yet another ruling late last...

Trial has finally arrived for the long-pending and much litigated Donovan class action against big tobacco in federal court in...

The future is arriving quickly; ten predictions well worth reading for a big picture view are set out in a January 4, 2016 article in...

Storytelling is critically important for trial lawyers. For a very good summary in a couple of pages, see this January 2016 article in...

Image from Illumina’s press conference announcing a bold new plan to change how the world deals with cancer. Did you feel the earth move...

The January 9, 2016 Dilbert is worth a read for trial lawyers. But it also may cause some depression.

A multi-disciplinary judicial college aimed at education beyond the judges is an interesting idea now underway in Illinois. The new...

Plaintiff firms involved in asbestos litigation like to have the internet pulsing with references to asbestos and litigation. To that...

Interested judges,  lawyers and accused persons actually can work to solve problems, as opposed to simply reaching decisions and meting...

Researchers depend in part on “lines” of mice bred and raised to be the same, and assumed to be the same.  The assumptions are being...

Some catch up on an item that kept getting pushed back. The point is to extend kudos to Legal Newsline for pressing for and obtaining the...

As businesses evolve and change, the litigation industry often evolves and changes to confront criminal, regulatory and civil law issues...

A fun fact about lawyers and law firms.  Guinness World Records has declared a UK  law firm the world’s oldest. It dates back to 1570...

Some people assume change in law is always slow. Is that really true? Not always. Consider all of the ongoing change regarding the...

Where did 2015 go? It soon will be time for the annual ACI Asbestos Litigation Conference in Philadelphia, this year on January 14 and...

One of the struggles in mass tort litigation arises from the economic conflicts of interest between current and future claimants. The...

Yes, movies like this are a big deal as to public perception. And all should keep in mind that some members of the public end up on...