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Depositions - when can you talk to your own witness?

Dechert LLP
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USA
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February 10 2011

We had the issue of when a lawyer can, and can't, confer with hisher own witness during a deposition come up recently in one of our cases

Uncommon funds

Dechert LLP
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USA
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January 5 2012

In MDLs, federal courts have on an unconscionable number of occasions set up “common benefit funds” to ensure that the other side gets paid even from the settlement of cases not before them

Reasonable certainty and defense experts

Dechert LLP
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USA
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August 4 2011

The other day we saw the Nevada Supreme Court’s decision in Williams v. Eight Judicial District Court, ___ P.3d ___, 2011 WL 3206963 (Nev. July 28, 2011

Guest post - never odd or even, just preempted

Dechert LLP
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USA
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January 31 2012

Oh wait a minute

After further (careful) review

Dechert LLP
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USA
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January 23 2012

In football the referees will occasionally change bad calls

Oklahoma Supreme Court OKs federal takeover of state tort law

Dechert LLP
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USA
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March 21 2013

We were planning to write about the Bartlett oral argument today (we still might) when we learned about Howard v. Zimmer, Inc., ___ P.3d ___, 2013 WL

Thinking about compliance presumptions

Dechert LLP
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USA
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February 16 2011

A couple of weeks ago we posted about the recently enacted Wisconsin tort reform statute, which, among a bunch of other things, included a "rebuttable" presumption that a product compliant with federal or state standards isn't defective

The birdsong remains the same consumer fraud statutes & personal injury plaintiffs lousy together

Dechert LLP
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USA
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April 15 2011

We took a look at a case called Birdsong v. Eli Lilly & Co., 2011 WL 1259650 (W.D. Tenn. Mar. 31, 2011), the other day because we were interested in the grounds that the court used to dismiss the by now more-or-less-standard consumer fraud claim that so many plaintiffs indiscriminately throw into their complaints