“It’s a signal to judges, and it’s a signal therefore to litigants as well, that you might as well just start bringing these cases,” Alan Rozenshtein, an associate law professor at the University of Minnesota. “You might win.”        

The federal gun industry shield law should not keep the suit from moving forward, U.S. District Court Judge Rosemary Márquez ruled.        

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Johnson & Johnson’s worldwide vice president of litigation, Erik Haas, and Jim Murdica, outside counsel at Barnes & Thornburg, testified on Monday that they were shocked to find out a former member of their team had been working with plaintiffs’ lawyer Andy Birchfield as early as April 2023.        

Several Am Law 100 firms grew their income partner ranks by double-digit percentages in 2023. Multiple factors are pushing firms to rapidly expand this tier of partners, observers say.        

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Terraform’s attorneys at Denton and founder Do Kwon’s attorneys at Kaplan Hecker & Fink maintained, during their own opening statements, that their clients did not lie.        

The parties have been in litigation for nearly a decade.        

When courts have made important exceptions in the past year, they have either added a gloss on the Judicial Code, corrected lawyers’ errors, filled in statutory gaps, or clarified the relevant statutory language.