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"Opening arguments begin today in a federal lawsuit brought by the SPLC on behalf of guest workers from India who were lured to a Mississippi shipyard by false promises of permanent U.S. residency only to find themselves forced into servitude and...

Familiarity with the Labor Code and the WCAB/DWC regulations is a fundamental necessity for practicing workers’ compensation law in the State of California. Given this fact, it is surprising how many attorneys show up on the day of trial without...

The Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board (WCAB) has rung in the New Year with new rules, new regulations and new responsibilities for all participants in the workers’ compensation community. It is important to be cognizant of all the changes...

"A federal courtroom in New Hampshire is about to become a laboratory for analyzing the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and whether a Manchester immigrant played a role in it. Prosecutors say 41-year-old Beatrice Munyenyezi of Rwanda lied on applications...

By Eric E. Bensen & Rebecca K. Myers The months (or years) of work Outside Counsel has spent working on the litigation - drafting, reviewing and analyzing the pleadings, collecting, reviewing and producing the documents, drafting, revising and...

Important amendments to Rule 26 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure became effective Dec. 1, 2010. The amendments extend work-product protection to the discovery of draft reports by a testifying expert witness and, with three important exceptions...

MINNEAPOLIS - (Mealey's) A Minnesota federal jury on Dec. 8 awarded a plaintiff in the first Levaquin multidistrict litigation bellwether trial a total of $1,815,000 in compensatory and punitive damages after finding that manufacturer Ortho-McNeil...

Effective Jan. 1, 2011, parties in litigation in California can choose a new trial option: an expedited jury trial, to be completed in one day with a small jury. Pat Cathcart, of AlvardoSmith in Los Angeles, explains this new litigation procedure in a...

By William A. Ruskin | Reptile strategy has taken the plaintiffs' bar by storm. The Reptile theory asserts that you can prevail at trial by speaking to, and scaring, the primitive part of jurors' brains, the part of the brain they share with...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. - (Mealey's) A Virginia federal jury on Dec. 3 found that a woman who claimed to have developed breast cancer from taking Wyeth's Prempro hormone replacement therapy drug did not prove that warnings provided to her doctor were...

By Eric E. Bensen & Rebecca K. Myers The months (or years) of work Outside Counsel has spent working on the litigation - drafting, reviewing and analyzing the pleadings, collecting, reviewing and producing the documents, drafting, revising and...

By William A. Ruskin Yesterday, we published an article titled 'Lawyers' Use Of Internet To Influence Jurors' raising the concern that the fairness of jury trials may be jeopardized if jurors can surf the Internet and read misleading or...

NEW YORK -- (Mealey's) The New York federal judge overseeing the Fosamax multidistrict litigation on Oct. 4 sua sponte found that an $8 million verdict in a bellwether trial is excessive and ordered a remittitur of the verdict to $1.5 million unless...

MINNEAPOLIS – (AP) More than a year after two Minnesota Vikings sued the NFL over its anti-doping procedures, the closely watched case heads to trial Monday with sports leagues worried the outcome will hurt their ability to enforce drug policies...