A West Coast-based litigator who defended BP, Johnson & Johnson and General Motors in some of the highest profile civil trials of the 21st century has left Dechert, where she co-led the products liability and mass torts practice, to join Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. Partner Kimberly Branscome joined…

A federal judge in New York has dismissed an antitrust lawsuit that alleged four drug manufacturers manipulated the pricing of insulin products under a program intended to deliver low-cost medications to underserved patients. In a 23-page opinion last week, Chief Judge Elizabeth Wolford of U.S. District Court, Western District in Rochester wrote…

Opening statements were given Monday in Delaware’s first Roundup trial, kicking off what’s scheduled to be a four-week proceeding in the Superior Court case involving a South Carolina man who claimed the Monsanto herbicide caused him to develop non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Bart Rankin of the Dallas-based Forrest Weldon Law Group said…

The Georgia Court of Appeals sided with a group of plaintiffs trying to get a court injunction to halt the construction of the Rivian electric vehicle plant in Morgan and Walton counties, just east of the metro Atlanta area in a bond dispute. The plaintiffs, a group of Morgan and…

The National Football League and industry groups have told the Federal Trade Commission to be even-handed in its proposed rule to prohibit businesses across the economy from imposing hidden fees on consumer goods and services, lest those companies who comply with the regulation fall victim to competitors who either do…

After a corporate client stopped paying legal bills and refused to allow its own law firm, Ackerman, to engage in discovery, a magistrate judge in New Jersey allowed the firm to withdraw as counsel for the plaintiff. The case, Green Star Energy Solutions v. Edison Properties, was originally filed in the…