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Drug Litigation Case Load May Taper And Strategies Change, But Insiders Don't See It Going Away, A LexisNexis Study Concludes
Wednesday, January 31, 2007

The convergence over the past five years of litigation involving drugs such as Baycol, Propulsid and Rezulin has resulted in a steady increase in the amount of drug cases reported by major drug companies, according to statistics compiled by LexisNexis. But the increase has slowed slightly as litigation matures and as drug companies begin to settle, the figures indicate.


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US Marines to investigate Haditha report leak
[JURIST] The US Marine Corps [official website] said Monday that it will launch an investigation into the leak of a Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) [official website] report on the killing of Iraqi civilians in Haditha [USMC timeline; JURIST
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Cop killer gets federal death sentence
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Woman reports rape, goes to jail
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Man guilty of necktie murder of mail-order bride
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Patent Lawsuits Continue To Increase At Faster Pace Than Civil Suits, Report By LexisNexis Finds
New patent case filings in federal court increased by 4.2 percent between 2002 and 2003, continuing the upward trend that has resulted in a 130 percent increase in patent case filings from 1988 to 2003, according to a report released by LexisNexis.


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Law Soc slams Revenue as strike threatens thousands of lawyers

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NEW YORK, NY Meredith Corporation 2007-01-31
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Novell GC Reaps Bonus Amid Options Whirlwind
General counsel have taken serious hits over backdating issues -- several have been fired or otherwise jettisoned by big-name companies. But Novell GC Joseph LaSala has bucked the trend. Last month, even as the company remained in the middle of an internal probe into backdating launched in August, it awarded LaSala a $350,000 bonus for "exceptional contributions" to the business. Why? Possibly because Novell has enjoyed two major legal successes involving Microsoft, with LaSala at the helm.
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Mistrial Declared After Lawyer Failed to Finish Closing Argument
A Virginia judge declared a mistrial in an attempted-murder case and suggested the defense lawyer seek medical help after the attorney said he couldn't continue his closing statement because he had lost his train of thought. The defendant, charged with attempted capital murder, malicious wounding and use of a firearm, offered to finish the job himself.
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Director of Planned Giving
NEW YORK, NY UNITED STATES American Museum of Natural History 2007-01-05
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QC deadline day prompts bar complaints

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Davies recommended for Linklaters' top job

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Fewer Insurance Lawsuits Being Filed In Federal Court In 2004, Study Released By LexisNexis Concludes
If the current trend continues, there will again be fewer insurance cases filed in federal court this year than in 2003 and 2002, according to a report by LexisNexis. There were 3,991 cases in which "insurance" is the nature of suit filed in federal courts in the first half of 2004. That compares with 4,298 for the first half of last year and 4,463 in the first half of 2002.


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DNA tests OK'd in Atlanta child murders case
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