Interested in infectious disease litigation? Before you accept a case, read this
When Davis M. Walsh and Samuel L. Tarry began assembling
Infectious Disease Litigation: Science, Law, and Procedure, they had no idea a pandemic was soon going to make the topic more relevant than ever.
In this new episode of the
Modern Law Library podcast, Walsh and Tarry talk to the ABA Journal’s Lee Rawles about the experience of editing the book, the unique challenges of litigating infectious disease cases, their advice for attorneys looking to get into the expanding field, and how COVID-19 might have changed juries’ points of view in such cases.
Happy anniversary. It’s been about one year now since the world was introduced to the coronavirus pandemic. What else can we say? This is as good a time as any to reflect on the changes to the world, especially to the world of law.
Law Firms
Ex-Boies Schiller lawyer was ousted from new firm in deplorable scheme to keep cryptocurrency fees, suit says
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The former Boies Schiller Flexner partner sued for refusing to leave his new law firm is claiming that his ouster was a pretextual money grab in his own lawsuit filed Tuesday in Miami-Dade County, Florida.
Plaintiff Jason Cyrulnik claims that he was asked to leave the Roche Cyrulnik Freedman law firm in a “deplorable scheme” by Kyle Roche and Devin Freedman to take for themselves his share of the firm.
His share included “an enormously valuable firm asset a fee payable in cryptocurrency by one of the firm’s clients that only days before had suddenly appreciated exponentially to more than $250 million,” according to the March 9 lawsuit.
Afternoon Briefs: Judge orders negotiation on race-norming’ claim in NFL case; judiciary considers amicus disclosure
Judge tosses challenge to ‘race-norming’ in dementia tests
U.S. District Judge Anita Brody of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania has dismissed a lawsuit challenging “race-norming” in dementia tests used to determine which retired NFL players qualify for compensation in a concussion settlement. Brody said the league and the class counsel in the $1 billion settlement should resolve the issue by negotiation. That apparently cuts out the lawyer who sued for Black players, who say the testing assumes that Black athletes have lower cognitive functioning than their white counterparts. That baseline requires Black athletes to show a greater cognitive decline to qualify for compensation. (ABC News, the Associated Press)