While suits targeting food and beverage companies isn't anything new, legal experts have opined that they have seen an increase in litigation in recent years as conversations around ingredients and additives increase at the federal level and within food and beverage companies themselves.

       

Redefining legal risk in the Middle East: Navigate change, compliance, and cross-border exposure.

       

As the expiration date on Alexion Pharmaceuticals' patent protections grew closer and competitors began developing their own medications, Alexion started filing patent infringement claims against those companies.

       

Many lawyers will be focused on bellwether trials in 2026 that feature the novel legal theory about social media's addictive nature.

       

“This matter highlights an all-too-common form of investment scam that is being used to target U.S. retail investors with devastating consequences, Laura D'Allaird, chief of the SEC's Cyber and Emerging Technologies Unit, said in a statement.

       

“This matter highlights an all-too-common form of investment scam that is being used to target U.S. retail investors with devastating consequences, Laura D'Allaird, chief of the SEC's Cyber and Emerging Technologies Unit, said in a statement.

       

A jury in Baltimore City Circuit Court awarded $59.84 million to plaintiff Cherie Craft, then added $1.5 billion in punitive damages against Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiary, Pecos River.

       

When the Standards committee met in November, it “engaged in a comprehensive view of the Standards with the goal of looking for the standards to be discussed by the advisory committee.

       

The firm's 149,000 square feet in New York across four floors is an increase of about 6,000 from the prior location.

       

The Texas Supreme Court has proposed ending the central docket system in Bexar and Travis counties, where any available judge can currently hear a case. Instead, under the proposed new rules, cases would be randomly assigned to one judge who would handle the case from start to finish.

       

Pennsylvania's Superior Court judges ruled in Monday's opinion that a trial judge had previously instructed the jury with the wrong legal standard.

       

The Wall Street law firm and its chair, Neil Barr, have advised on at least five law firm mergers in the last couple of years.

       

Harvard University secured a court victory against the Trump administration in early September when District Court Judge Allison Burroughs blocked the government from enforcing past or future freeze orders.

       

The legislation, which will set a 25% cap on a third-party consumer litigation financing company's gross recovery from a lawsuit, had been eight years in the works.