John Cord has an interesting blog post in his Drug Recall Lawyer Blog as to how Bayer intends to defend the Yaz lawsuits.

David Payne Law is being recognized in the Missouri Lawyers Weekly Top Verdicts 2009 with the $2 Million settlement of a complex premises liability case involving traumatic head injuries. David Payne Law & Strong-Garner-Bauer represented the Plaintiff. This case settled for policy limits within 5 ...

Segal v. St. John's University, (N.Y.A.D. 2 Dept.) A swim team member could not prevail on negligent hiring and supervision claims regarding her coach's training methods. Allegedly negligent actions of a university swim team coach were within the scope of his employment, thus defeating negligen ...

By Mike Baker, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS RALEIGH, N.C. – A judge wants a security officer to accompany a former John Edwards aide as he goes to retrieve a sex tape of the two-time presidential candidate, increasing the court’s control of the disputed video. Superior Court Judge Abraham P ...

* "Justice Hillary Clinton?" Next up in this traffic-whoring Daily Beast series: "Supreme Court Justice Palin?" [Daily Beast] * Faegre & Benson partner Robert Matthews and his brother died in a small plane crash over the weekend. Matthews had a mid-air collision while piloting a Cirrus SR20 plane, ...

The ACC announced last week that law firms would be given some access to performance feedback being gathered as part of the “index phase” of the Value Challenge initiative. The press release is here; Corporate Counsel has more today here. Part of the CC article gives equal time to a for ...

John Thatcher, formerly a project manager with DeNovo is now with Peak Discovery. Richard Thuemmler has joined the Midtown Group as the Director of Contract Legal Services

How many tort cases are tried in Tennessee in the last year?   The Annual Report of the Tennessee Judiciary gives us the answer.   Here is the data for the year ended June 30, 2009: Total jury trials in all tort cases:   260 Total number of medical malpractice trials:  26 Tot ...

Source: NLJ.com, February 8, 2010. Subscription required for online access: http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/subscribe.jsp Snow Covers Washington Courts "Scenes from around Judiciary Square in downtown Washington today -- in case you are at home and wondering what it looks like." ...

KURT SCHLICHTER: Get Over It: Birtherism Is Not Journalism. Nope, it’s as if somebody who called himself a journalist developed a sick fascination with Sarah Palin’s uterus. And nobody wants to think about what that would represent. Then again, “According to a new book by John ...