Corporate families with tiered structures create legal responsibility issues of many kinds. Sophisticated plaintiff’s lawyers for injured...

It’s not quite the Human Genome Project, but researchers are starting to publish data from a study of bacteria inside 1,400 homes. The...

A June 24, 2013 story in Crain’s Chicago Business by Andrew Wang brings factual news relevant to the ceaseless arguments on whether there...

The marketing of asbestos lung cancer claims continues, as shown in the July 1, 2013 press release pasted below....

Lawyers litigating lung cancer cases will need increasing knowledge of mutations related to lung cancer, and their implications as to...

The New York Times issued a June 2013 editorial on asbestos bankruptcy trusts. To say the least, the editorial was underwhelming – no...

A belated note to mark the death of David Austern, of pancreatic cancer. David was a legal giant in the world of asbestos litigation, and...

The April 2013 Bai Verte mine report is online. It’s an interesting report but unfortunately fails to provide relative risk data on GI...

Dilbert provides valuable "context" on management books. #Offtopic

Scientists continue to broaden the possibilities for "museumomics" and "paleomics." The newest accomplishment is sequencing DNA that is...

"Hawkey day" in Chicago. Red is everywhere as Chicagoans of all kinds and ages are out to celebrate the Blackhawk’s winning the Stanley...

This Forbes post provides a very "pro-business" view of the term at SCOTUS. The substantive analysis is lacking, but the article provides...

As the end of June arrives, the Madison County clerk’s office (and others) are pointing to data showing 2013 as another year of high...

So, what will fracking create for the litigation industry? Tea leaf readers may be interested in a Forbes.com article reporting on NIOSH...

A reminder of when medicine was built around case reports. A now online case report on a case of silicosis, published by the Cleveland...

MicroRNA are now known as increasingly important in understanding cancer, and so will be taking on new roles in litigation involving...

Molecular biology researchers continue to identify examples of the BAP1 germline mutation tied to increased risk of mesothelioma and...

Litigating a mesothelioma claim can be complex, and mesothelioma puts a family through an awful journey. The Wall Street Journal this...

SCOTUS is often fractured these days, but yesterday managed to unanimously and correctly reject patents on genes in the Myriad case. Why?...

Oil drilling devices are amazing. Some are moveable and go around the world, sometimes with the same people. Some were or are centers...