Our clients, particularly the most vulnerable (the elderly, the stay-at-home mothers, the infants and children), face a serious and immediate threat to their rights. The nursing home industry is gathering signatures to place an initiated act on the ballot this fall. This act will place a $250,000.00 cap on noneconomic damages in medical malpractice cases. Arguments in favor of damage caps are based on myths and misinformation.
OPINION: If duplicated, billionaire's strategy could threaten an independent media.
Murray Energy Corp. made a $250,000 donation to the Republican Attorneys General Association last year and, in return, the coal mining company’s chief executive got a closed-door meeting with state prosecutors to discuss the Obama administration’s regulation of power plants.
An impressive 84 percent of the work GSK assigned to law firms in 2015 was done through an alternative fee arrangement, Bob Harchut, associate general counsel at the pharmaceutical company, said in an interview. In 2011, the number was 68 percent. In 2008, it was just 3 percent.
"Firms need to invest the time necessary to do this with quality, transparency and timeliness," he says. "In a world where there are so many lawyers competing for business, when a law firm isn't as transparent as it should be and isn't as timely as it should be, there are a lot of other firms to choose from."
The large volume of data Tesla Motors Inc collects from its cars on the road has armed it with information to publicly counter, and possibly legally defend, claims about the safety of its Autopilot driving-assist software, according to lawyers familiar with such cases.
Roger Ailes resigned as chairman and chief executive of Fox News Channel following allegations of sexual harassment, an abrupt end to his 20-year rein over America's most lucrative and powerful cable news channel for conservatives.
