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Litigation
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Food Liability Law
Litigation and Insurance Coverage Risks from Swine Flu (H1N1)
By Kenneth Odza
For food companies (and other businesses), a dangerous and deadly flu pandemic (e.g., H1N1) can be a business disaster. Adding insult to injury is personal injury litigation and the accompanying…
Mass Tort Litigation Blog
Scholarship on Multiparty Litigation & Settlement
By joetort
An article recently posted on SSRN by Andrew F. Daughtey and Jennifer F. Reinganum, entitled "A Dynamic Model of Lawsuit Joinder and Settlement" models strategies on both sides of multidistrict…
Media Law Prof Blog
Ninth Circuit Allows Hilton Suit Against Hallmark To Move Forward
The Ninth Circuit has ruled that Paris Hilton's lawsuit against Hallmark Cards can proceed. Ms. Hilton alleges that the card, which depicts a waitress with Ms. Hilton's face, infringes her…
Arbitration and ADR
Mediation on the rise?
By Patrick Lamb
Last week, I wrote about corporate America instructing its counsel to make litigation go away rather than spending money defending lawsuits. Perhaps one way it is doing this is by…
San Antonio Employment Law Blog
Splitting Hairs is not a Strong Defense
As often happens in trials, there is substantial dispute over what happened when lawyers for Michael Richard seeking more time. The call went to Ed Marty, general counsel for the…
The Right Coast
What’s going on with Ted Olson? Tom Smith
I don't know. But I think it's worth considering litigators are in the business of making cases, not developing consistent juriprudence. I think some people just really like to be…
Real Lawyers Have Blogs
LexBlog Law Network Roundup – 8/17/2009
The weekend is over and summer is coming to a close, but our bloggers show no signs of slowing. Max Kennerly is trying to keep his mind "limber" during these…
San Antonio Employment Law Blog
Lawsuits are a Very Personal Business
I have talked about this before. Reasonable settlement offers lead to reasonable, or halfway reasonable responses. When you are in the midst of a lawsuit, both sides have their "dander…
Business and Commercial
“Make this go away”: Corporate America’s New Take On Litigation
By Patrick Lamb
The online version of National Law Journal contains an interesting analysis of the impact the recession is having on how corporate America looks at litigation. In For Litigators, A Different…
Mass Tort Litigation Blog
Lawsuit Growth in 2008
By joetort
Articles in the ABA Section of Litigation's Litigation News and the Baltimore Business Journal summarize the 2009 Law360 Litigation Almanac. Among the federal-court findings: class actions rose 8% (reaching an…