When thinking about the litigation industry, it’s also helpful to think about the increasing ease of becoming licenses to practice law in...

Caps on medical malpractice verdicts raise real issues of due process, right to trial and fundamental fairness. Therefore, it seems...

“Statute of Limitations in the Context of Prescription Drug Addiction: Case Dismissed in Northern District of New York.” That’s the very...

As litigation becomes more global, new issues arise as parties seek to use local discovery processes in aid of cases in other countries....

For many years, astute observers  pointed out that “change” is the one constant in asbestos litigation. With that in mind, one might...

These are interesting times, as a nominally Republican President calls for more lawsuits against domestic and overseas drug makers. The...

Asbestos litigation continues to include fairly frequent arguments and decisions regarding suits against recently dissolved entities. The...

After months of procedural wrangling and negotiations about settlement, the asbestos plaintiff’s bar has now attacked the...

Some day I would love to find a law review or treatise capturing and summarizing the various industries which hold legislative immunity...

It’s certainly been interesting to watch the last several years of opinions from the Delaware Supreme Court. A July 2018 opinion adds to...

Time and again,  litigators experience hassles with a witness obtaining notarization of a signature. That sometimes leads to submission...

September and October 2018 trials are approaching for federal court litigation regarding State Farm’s 2004 contributions used for...

A new aspect of the practice of law is applying AI to sets of cases. That trend is now being applied to insurance coverage cases,...

One litigation industry industry problem is that foolish actions by one litigant can harm many other similarly situated litigants. This...

In September, 2016, multidisciplinary colleagues and I published and sold our second, in-depth and multidisciplinary analysis of the...

The “mass tort” litigation industry continues to grow. Back in the 1980s and 1990s, many big law firms disdained “mass tort” defense...

As litigation becomes more global, new issues arise as parties seek to use local discovery processes in aid of cases in other countries....

A cogent summary of statutes of repose for drugs and devices is online at a July 16, 2018 guest post at Drug & Device blog.

Ken Lopez of A2L recently teed up the need for trial lawyers to not stack the deck in mock trials, and to instead go the other...

Regardless of arguments about causation, ocean levels plainly are rising.  A recent article at Pricenomics provides some great data and...