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Companies that Assess the Value of Mass Tort Advertising
Mass tort advertising is not just guess work. Here is an example article about a business focused on helping law firms figure the best...

Kirk Hartley
Dec 17, 20131 min read
Jones Day Using Contingent Fees in London Cases
Jones Day is using contingent fees in London, says this brief report. Watch out for pigs flying close to Amazon’s delivery drones……...

Kirk Hartley
Dec 17, 20131 min read
Updates Ahead for Helsinki Asbestos Disease Criteria – Helsinki 2014
Laurie Kazan-Allen of IBAS provided a timely reminder that updates are ahead for the Helsinki Critera for asbestos diseases. The forum...

Kirk Hartley
Dec 16, 20131 min read
A Radical Idea – A Commmssion Free Stock Broker
After Fidelity’s absurdly bad web site performance, I’m especially open to new ideas on which brokerage firms to use to invest. So, it’s...

Kirk Hartley
Dec 15, 20131 min read
Ruinous Liability for Junk Faxes and the Like ? One Hopes for More Similar Rulings
Junk faxes, calls and emails waste way too much time. So, it was interesting to read a Drinker Biddle article that keys on a New Jersey...

Kirk Hartley
Dec 12, 20131 min read
Who Wants to Defend this Case Involving a Drunk Drive Rear Ending a State Trooper?
The Chicago Daily Law Bulletin runs a service that reports on new complaints filed in Cook County in state court. The service describes...

Kirk Hartley
Dec 12, 20131 min read
Long Term Cohort Studies – The Shanghai Cohort Study
Thinking long-term. It’s not necessarily a strength of lawyers or their clients. For scientists, however, it’s often a priority. Thus,...

Kirk Hartley
Dec 12, 20132 min read
UK Mesothelioma Act – Update
The UK Mesothelioma Act continues to wend its way through the legislative process. The most recent action on specific language occurred...

Kirk Hartley
Dec 11, 20131 min read
Google and Chrome – Errors Galore
Google obviously does not bother with serious quality control when it tosses out browsers and other software. However, the errors in...

Kirk Hartley
Dec 11, 20131 min read
Superstars of Science
Superstars of Science. It’s a helpful web site full of information about great scientists. It could be useful for litigation, and...

Kirk Hartley
Dec 11, 20131 min read
Delaware’s Evolving Rules on Redacting Complaints and Public Challenges to Secrecy
Using a public court to resolve disputes? Confidentiality may be harder to obtain, at least in Delaware Chancery cases. A first of its...

Kirk Hartley
Dec 10, 20131 min read
Disappearing Glaciers at Glacier National Park – The Melting World
It’s hard to argue with most visual evidence. So, it’s compelling to see and read some of the evidence amassed by USGS on disappearing...

Kirk Hartley
Dec 10, 20131 min read
Lung Cancer Claiming in Asbestos Litigation – A New Data-filled Paper Is Highly Useful
Lung cancer claiming in asbestos litigation is one of the current "hot topics." This week the dialog will continue at Perrin Conference’s...

Kirk Hartley
Dec 9, 20131 min read
Lung Cancer Claiming, and the Problem of Fact-Free, Type 1 Commentary on Economic, Social and Legal
One of the flaws with 24/7 media is endless desire and space for content, and a tendency to publish fact-free articles that masquerade as...

Kirk Hartley
Dec 9, 20131 min read


Reasons to Invest in Science – So Many Blood Cancers, and New Hope from Great New Science R
(The picture above shows one of two halls used for poster sessions at ASH 2013. The picture is courtesy of Pieter Droppert, who writes...

Kirk Hartley
Dec 8, 20132 min read


“The Merry Old Land of Lawz” – Some Lawyers Are Creative, and Sing and Dance Too !
For Chicagoans looking for wickedly smart humor this weekend, consider singing and dancing lawyers presenting the Chicago Bar...

Kirk Hartley
Dec 5, 20131 min read
Big Tobacco Moves More Massively into the Russian Marketplace – No Fear of Russian Lung Cance
Big tobacco continues to expand its global spreading of death and cancer, this time with Phillip Morris and Japan Tobacco making major...

Kirk Hartley
Dec 5, 20131 min read
The Delaware Supreme Court’s Signficant New Ruling on Corporate Dissolution Rules, and Related
For Delaware corporations, last week brought a significant new ruling from the Delaware Supreme Court on obligations and rights related...

Kirk Hartley
Dec 4, 20134 min read
AMEX – A New Nominee for the Laziest and/or Stupidest Company in the US – American Expre
AMEX has done the impossible – it has eclipsed CapitalOne as the laziest and/or stupidest financial services company in the US. How you...

Kirk Hartley
Dec 3, 20133 min read
GE Healthcare Cell Imaging Competition
Amazing images of cells, and you can vote for a favorite. #Science

Kirk Hartley
Dec 3, 20131 min read
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