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What’s Next: The Bulletproof Blog - The Grandaddy of All Derivatives Suits

Posted by: Larry Smith | Jul 1, 2009

What’s Next: The Bulletproof Blog - The Grandaddy of All Derivatives Suits

In this regular feature, Bulletproof interviews top plaintiffs’ attorneys for their perspective on the crises likely to affect businesses in the near future. Today we talk to Frank P. DiPrima of the Law Office of Frank DiPrima in Morristown, NJ. Mr. DiPrima has been co-counsel in the derivative law suit against Richard Scrushy, founder of HealthSouth Corporation. In its June, 2009, decision in Wade Tucker v Richard Scrushy et al., an Alabama court awarded plaintiffs $2.876 ... Read More

Another Blow to Preemption Empowers State Attorneys General

Posted by: David Bartlett | Jun 30, 2009

Another Blow to Preemption Empowers State Attorneys General

Yesterday's Supreme Court ruling that state regulators can take national banks to court in order to enforce state consumer protection laws is yet another blow to the principle of “preemption.” For those non-constitutional law scholars out there, preemption is the means by which federal law supersedes state law when contradictions between the two arise. In this case, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo and his predecessor Eliot Spitzer sought to enforce state consumer protection laws against ... Read More

What’s Next: The Plaintiff’s Perspective - 30 Years of Reaganomics Have Ended

Posted by: Larry Smith | Jun 24, 2009

What’s Next: The Plaintiff’s Perspective - 30 Years of Reaganomics Have Ended

In this regular feature, Bulletproof interviews top plaintiffs’ attorneys for their perspective on the crises likely to affect businesses in the near future. Today we talk to Stephen D. Susman of Houston’s Susman & Godfrey LLP. In the decades since his landmark 1980 victory, in which he won an award in excess of $550 million for victims of a nationwide price-fixing conspiracy, Mr. Susman has commanded the respect of business leaders and lawyers alike, on ... Read More

What’s Next: The Plaintiff’s Perspective - Courtroom Sea Change

Posted by: Larry Smith | Jun 17, 2009

What’s Next: The Plaintiff’s Perspective - Courtroom Sea Change

In this regular feature, Bulletproof interviews top plaintiffs’ attorneys for their perspective on the crises likely to affect businesses in the near future. Today we talk to Thomas Demetrio, partner at Chicago’s fabled Corboy & Demetrio, who has won over $130 million in jury verdicts, including the largest personal injury verdict ever upheld by the Illinois Supreme Court, along with over $1 billion in settlements. You’ve seen the civil justice system undergo a number of transformations. ... Read More

What’s Next: The Plaintiff’s Perspective - Tracking the IP Pendulum

Posted by: Larry Smith | Jun 10, 2009

What’s Next: The Plaintiff’s Perspective - Tracking the IP Pendulum

In this regular feature, Bulletproof interviews top plaintiffs’ attorneys for their perspective on the crises likely to affect businesses in the near future. Today we talk to Doug Cawley, a principal in the Dallas office of intellectual property powerhouse McKool Smith. Mr. Cawley was in the news lately when an Eastern District of Texas jury awarded $200 million to his client, the Canadian software company i4i, in a patent infringement dispute over Microsoft Word's use ... Read More

What’s Next: The Bulletproof Interview - Brett Berty and Mike Rozembajgier of Stericycle Expert RECALL on Recall Communications

Posted by: Larry Smith | Jun 8, 2009

What’s Next: The Bulletproof Interview - Brett Berty and Mike Rozembajgier of Stericycle Expert RECALL on Recall Communications

Each week, Bulletproof Blog features exclusive interviews with thought leaders on issues of critical importance to companies and countries. This week, with high-profile recalls of peanuts, pistachios, and countless other food and consumer products making headlines, we interview Brett Berty and Mike Rozembajgier, the Senior Recall Strategist and Director of Recalls, respectively, for Stericycle Expert RECALL services. Together, Mr. Berty and Mr. Rozembajgier, who lead Stericycle’s industry-leading Expert RECALL team, have guided companies through the complex ... Read More