Crowell and Moring issued its Litigation Forecast 2014, and it’s interesting. Most striking to me, however, is that the forecast did not...

More attention to the growing use of litigation funding. Another WSJ piece with small bits of new information on fund raising in...

Illumina is the world leader in sequencing genes. From 1988-2003, the government-sponsored Human Genome Project blazed a wonderful trail...

The Garlock opinion certainly is generating lots of words – many of them pretty useless. Unfortunately, the opinion motivated Joe Nocera...

For governments, funding litigation makes economic sense, as it does for private litigation. Last week, Attorney General Eric Holder...

Some days the litigation industry is very predictable. Yesterday, there was news that another litigation financing fund (Gerchen Keller)...

New mesothelioma data from Ireland. It shows significantly increasing rates of mesothelioma; about a 45% percent increase over 15 years....

An Update – the post below is going to be edited and updated. Why? Because, it’s been pointed out to me that I was not precise enough in...

Imagine being the judge in this case. Background: The case is the Martoma criminal trial for insider trading at SAC Capital. The...

The Martoma trial jury is interesting; it includes two lawyers. DealBook explains: "The jurors who will sit in judgment of Mr. Martoma...

A new article explores the failures of Chinese walls in financial services firms. In other words, actually looking at the gulf between...

Is there change in the wind with the nomination of Leo Strine as Chief Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court? The punditry is starting....

In days gone by, the revolving door in government simply lead to a private employer for a new and more lucrative job after working for...

The long-running UK saga of mesothelioma legislation has ended without changes sought by victim’s rights groups to increase compensation....

The TortsProf Blog has an interesting post arising out of a law firm client threatening to pull business from the firm unless the firm...

A new paper covers erionite and offretite from the Killdeer Mountains, Dunn County, North Dakota, U.S.A. It is online – the abstract is...

Non-partisan media and Laurie Kazan-Allen/IBAS (see Dec. 30 story) are both reporting on a Swiss court issuing orders convicting Eternit...

2014 medical journals are in the mail, and illustrate that researchers continue to explore the reactions and impacts between asbestos...

Welcome to 2014. Researchers took a succesfull first step on generating organized sets of eye cells using ink jet printing systems. This...

With a hat tip to Laurie Kazan-Allen, note that a group of Australian construction industry interests donated $400k (AU) for mesothelioma...