Continually evolving "facts" are one of the unique parts of some mass tort litigation. Thus, plane crashes, boat wrecks, and sky bridge...

New tools make for new findings, and sometimes they are profound. An example of a new tool is NGS. Next generation sequencing is one of...

It appears we have another decision that falls under the heading of "be careful what you wish for." SCOTUS this week declined to allow...

Bankruptcies are frequently used to resolve mass tort situations. In some instance, a bankruptcy is fairly foreseeable as tort claims...

Set out below are the 2012 MARF Grants for molecular biology research on mesothelioma. Defense lawyers should note both the topics and...

By all accounts, SCOTUS did not seem interested in drinking the patent think kool-aid offered by Myriad Genetics to try to justify its...

Increasing numbers of plaintiff’s law firms are sponsoring molecular biology research through MARF. Sponsors for its March 2013 meeting...

Funded mainly by asbestos victims and asbestos plaintiff’s lawyers, The Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation continues to fund...

The Myriad case heads back to the US Supreme Court today for oral argument. My hope is that Mryriad’s argument for gene patents goes...

The three-dimensional electron microscopy structure of the complete Tetrahymena telomerase enzyme complex, with previously solved...

An outline form article from Corporate Counsel provides a terse, useful summary of strategic thoughts for litigation and media battles....

"Let’s be careful out there." Famous advice that ended the squad room meeting of police officers shown on many episodes of Hill Street...

Asbestos litigation is now yielding yet another example of why there should be transparency on asbestost trust claiming data. ...

Litigation funding. Some years ago, RAND, GlobalTort, and some others saw funding as a big deal. Others denied and complained, and indeed...

From the Tuesday April 9 entry from the Visual Thesaurus – Word of the Day "Well I Swear! Word of the Day: perjury The -jury part of...

Today is the Rally for Medical Research in Washington, DC, held in conjunction with the annual meeting of cancer researchers. The point...

To catch a tumor cell? Well, obviously, you just line up and sort 10 million cells – per second – from a tube of blood. The summary...

The Morrison ruling pushed overseas many securities claims formerly brought in the US. It’s a classic example of "be careful what you...

Text messages are part of modern life. The ABA Journal includes a new article summarizing two state appellate decisions on admitting text...

Internet thieves certainly are creative. Nature just published this story on Internet thieves creating fake web sites for two science ...