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Amanda Bronstad is the ALM staff reporter covering class actions and mass torts nationwide. She writes the email dispatch Law.com Class Actions: Critical Mass. She is based in Los Angeles.
April 21, 2022 | Law.com
About 16% of attorneys appointed to leadership roles in multidistrict litigation created in 2021 identified as nonwhite, up slightly from 14% in 2020. In 2016, only 4% went to nonwhite attorneys.
By Amanda Bronstad
11 minute read
April 19, 2022 | Law.com
A growing list of consumer products are now being targeted in lawsuits for containing PFAS, or polyfluoroalkyl substances, also known as "forever chemicals."
By Amanda Bronstad
7 minute read
April 11, 2022 | Daily Business Review
In an opening statement on Monday, Walgreens attorney Steven Derringer cited statements on the attorney general's office website in 2018 and 2019 that drug manufacturers, such as Purdue Pharma, misrepresented the risks of opioids to pharmacies. "We agree with the attorney general about this," he told jurors, according to a broadcast by Courtroom View Network.
By Amanda Bronstad
3 minute read
April 8, 2022 | Daily Business Review
3M, represented by Kirkland & Ellis at this month's trial, has now won six of the 14 bellwether trials in the multidistrict litigation over its dual-ended combat earplugs.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
April 7, 2022 | Daily Business Review
Matt Leckman, a partner at Littlepage Booth Leckman, represents the wife of a pilot allegedly sickened from toxic cabin air, which is caused when engine fumes seep into the cabin. Trial begins on April 18 in Chicago.
By Amanda Bronstad
7 minute read
March 11, 2022 | Law.com
The fees and costs outlined in the $26 billion opioid deal with Johnson & Johnson's Janssen Pharmaceuticals and three distributors are a mix of common benefit fees, contingency fees and payments to the states for outside counsel. One law professor said, "it's not like the lawyers are going to be impoverished."
By Amanda Bronstad
9 minute read
March 10, 2022 | Daily Business Review
U.S. District Judge Robin Rosenberg has added 12 more lawyers in the Zantac multidistrict litigation to a leadership development committee aimed at promoting younger attorneys.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
March 7, 2022 | Law.com
In a pair of orders on Monday, U.S. District Judge Dan Polster, among other findings, upheld his decision to excuse three unvaccinated jurors from the trial, concluding there was "no doubt that trial would have been disrupted."
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
March 3, 2022 | Daily Business Review
At least four class actions and one pre-suit petition have been filed over a Feb. 17 recall that Abbott announced after three babies were hospitalized and one died after ingesting its Similac, Alimentum and EleCare brands of infant formula.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
February 28, 2022 | Law.com
Prominent plaintiffs attorneys Ben Crump and Diandra "Fu" Debrosse Zimmermann announced on Monday a new organization called Shades of Mass.
By Amanda Bronstad
3 minute read
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