ToxicoGenomica is the doing business name for a collaboration between me and scientists at ArrayXpress and Innovative Science Solutions....

Interesting comments by Judge Rakoff are available in a thirty minute podcast interview on intersections between science and law. Among...

As the shutdown evolves, SCOTUS will remain at work, at least for a month or so.  A January 21, 2018  post at SCOTUSblog provides a...

Pasted below is a fascinating press release from a proteomics company known as SomaLogic. The gist is the scientists were able to predict...

Securities suits were filed at highest ever levels, as calculated by D&O Diary. The specifics are set out in January 1, 2018 post at the...

Bloomberg provided an interesting year end article (December 21 – here) with plaintiff and defense views on the class action impact (or...

The times they are a changing, as evidenced by this January 10 and 11 workshop sponsored by NAS:  The Promise of Genome Editing Tools to...

The State AG Report from Cozen O’Connor provides useful insights into the actions of state AGs. The publications include a blog and a...

I remain too busy to write much, but can make time to pass on legal insight tinged with wry humor. It’s a December 8, 2017 post from...

As some of us predicted years ago, global litigation continues to expand in both class actions and other forms of collective actions. ...

Various forums continue to compete to resolve civil law issues and/or offer specialized “business friendly” laws (e.g tax shelters)....

It’s interesting to watch the missiles and counter-missiles used by “repeat players” in “mass tort” litigation. A prime example arose in...

Amazing, and improper.  On October 6, 2015, I posted about MesoLawyersCare.   Recently, I stumbled onto a YouTube video that puts my...

Jurisdiction for toxic tort suits remains a “hot topic.”  A new example arises from oral argument in a Delaware Supreme Court case...

Thanks to the seldom bashful Seventh Circuit, Ted Frank has toppled the stupid Subway settlement. Kudos to Ted, on this one (as opposed...

How to think about the future, and the past? Some proclaim “certainty” essential and demand “proof” with confidence intervals at .05% or...

A new “toxic tort” blog (by Bill Ruskin) launched with an interesting mini-review of the use of Value Assurance Plans as a means for...

Late in June, SCOTUS knocked out “American Pipe” equitable tolling in a securities case, as explained in a June 27,  2017 post at Faegre...

As expected, SCOTUS used the BMS case to narrow the rules for the assertion of personal jurisdiction against a defendant.  Bexis provided...

The ubiquity of email and 24/7 work are creating new privilege issues. Some are addressed  an interesting June 9, 2017 JD Supra article...