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Shook Partner to Moderate Employment Jury Trials Webinar on August 16, 2023
Shook Employment Litigation and Policy Partner Bill Martucci will moderate and present with two other lawyers, “Winning Employment Jury Trials—Strategic and Ethical Considerations,” August 16, noon to 2:12 p.m. CT. -
Shook Hardy Bacon LLP hosts Driving Diversity in Law and Leadership Conference Features Shook Partner on May 18, 2023
Shook Partner Veronica Gromada will deliver the opening remarks and serve as a panelist at the Centerforce Diversity Law Series, Driving Diversity in Law and Leadership Conference. -
'Wacko': Insurance law project puts spotlight on American Law Institute's direction
PHILADELPHIA (Legal Newsline) - The American Law Institute (ALI) is as powerful as any society with a membership of 3,000 of the nation’s leading lawyers could be. And since its founding in 1923, the Philadelphia-based group of judges and academic and practicing lawyers has been as obscure as a group with so much power would want to be. -
Business lawyers: Expect spillover from actions against asbestos trusts, plaintiffs lawyers
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - Business defense lawyers say that the fallout from recent government and private actions against asbestos bankruptcy trusts and plaintiffs lawyers specializing in asbestos exposure cases could extend well beyond the actions themselves. -
Proposed Restatement of consumer contract law could give trial bar new weapon
PHILADELPHIA (Legal Newsline) - American Law Institute (ALI) is cooking up new common law rules covering consumer contracts that would give courts an unprecedented range of reasons to invalidate or rewrite contract terms. -
New ATRA program to tackle ‘deep-pocket jurisprudence’
Victor Schwartz, general counsel for the American Tort Reform Association and an expert on tort law, argues some courts in recent years have stretched tort law to impose liability on an innocent party. -
California federal judge dismisses Dallas asbestos firm’s lawsuit against John Crane Inc.
Judge Consuelo B. Marshall for the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, in an order last week, said the plaintiffs, Simon Greenstone Panatier Bartlett PC, failed to file an amended complaint. -
Lawyers at odds over Restatement of Law covering liability insurance
PHILADELPHIA (Legal Newsline) - Insurance and business defense attorneys are sparring with the drafters of a powerful legal document that will influence the outcome of insurance liability cases. -
Lawyer doesn't expect Best Buy, LG class action to hold up in federal court
MINNEAPOLIS (Legal Newsline) — A Wisconsin couple have filed a class action lawsuit against Best Buy and LG Electronics, alleging misrepresentation in the refresh rates of their televisions - but it could be difficult to certify a class action in federal court under multiple states' consumer protection acts, an attorney says. -
U.S. Senate panel holds hearing on asbestos trust bill
This week, the Senate Judiciary Committee took up the Furthering Asbestos Claim Transparency Act, or FACT Act, portion of a bill that passed the House last month. Opponents argue the legislation’s reporting requirements could violate asbestos victims’ privacy. Those in favor of the bill say it’s a necessary “additional check” on the current system.