January 2018

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This post is from the non-Reed Smith side of the blog.

Be specific. Be focused. Be detailed. All good things to keep in mind when requesting just about anything, including relief from a court. That is what today’s decision got us thinking about. It’s a Daubert ruling from the Bard IVC Filters MDL and it’s

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When we described for you (here and here) the briefing on the appeal of the half-billion-dollar verdict in the Pinnacle Hip Implant MDL’s second bellwether trial, we left out maybe the most intriguing issue. This is one the likes of which we have not seen before: the case of the unpaid experts who

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We’re now into the New Year but aren’t completely done with the old one.  The name of the first month of the year, January, is conventionally attributed to Janus, the Roman god of beginnings, gates, transitions, and doorways.  (We say “conventionally” because some sources report that January is actually named after its tutelary deity, Juno.)

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Happy New Year!

It’s been 3 ½ years since we last updated our index to our online research resources.  That’s almost ⅓ of the total life of the blog, which started in way back in 2006.  We’ve been blogging now for well over ten years.  Our first substantive research post, on the presumption against