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Two private law firms with a pattern of heavy donations to state and local politicians will collect up to $27 million of the $260 million Johnson & Johnson is paying the State of New York and county governments to settle opioid litigation.
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (Legal Newsline) – Prominent personal injury firms should lose their leadership positions in the Flint, Mich., water crisis litigation, a lawyer involved in the litigation is arguing as he complains they are trying to "corner the market" on compensation to boost their fees.
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CHARLESTON, S.C. (Legal Newsline) – It’s just a fact of life that companies can get tangled up in expensive litigation that goes on for years before they can start defending themselves.
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MIAMI (Legal Newsline) – A memo from Miami-Dade County shows that the nation’s prominent plaintiffs firms are competing with and aligning to each other in the hopes of grabbing the most important clients – local governments.
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LANSING, Mich. (Legal Newsline) - Michigan’s agreement to pay $600 million to settle claims over its handling of the Flint water crisis marks a profitable end to litigation that had such potential from the start that plaintiff attorneys engaged in a loud public battle for control.
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Law firms leading multidistrict litigation against the opioid industry have borrowed as much as $102 million under the federal Paycheck Protection Program designed to preserve jobs amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The law firms said the loans were needed to pay some 3,000 employees.
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CLEVELAND (Legal Newsline) - More than 500 cities and counties opted out of the unprecedented “negotiation class” proposed by plaintiff lawyers to settle sprawling opioid litigation, leaving 98% of the 34,458 U.S. cities and counties technically still in the class.
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JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) – Plaintiffs lawyers have pegged a Republican candidate as their favorite to replace Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood, a Democrat noted for his close ties to the trial bar during his years in office, as they fight another Republican who has vowed to stop giving them lucrative contracts.
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LANSING, Mich. (Legal Newsline) – Plaintiffs lawyers likely have their eyes on Michigan, as the new attorney general there wants to sue companies over chemicals known as PFAS but doesn’t think her staff will be able to handle it.
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When it hired outside lawyers to represent it in lawsuits against the opioid industry, Harris County agreed to pay a contingency fee of 35%, more than double the rate in Dallas County and equal to the highest in the state.
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. (Legal Newsline) – In the litigation over the water crisis in Flint, Mich., a nasty battle has broken out between nationally known plaintiffs firms that are each accusing the other of greedy behavior during the fight for clients.
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RIVERHEAD, N.Y. (Legal Newsline) - A New York judge has refused to stay lawsuits by a number of New York counties against opioid manufacturers and distributors, rejecting arguments that the Food and Drug Administration hasn’t yet determined whether narcotic painkillers are unnecessarily dangerous - a central question in any litigation.
