Firm News & Updates
Simmons Hanly Conroy Receives Bruce Vento Hope Builder Award
Mesothelioma Foundation hails firm’s commitment to curing Mesothelioma October, 2006: At the Mesothelioma Foundation’s International Symposium in Chicago, Simmons Hanly Conroy and Managing Shareholder Jeff Cooper received the Bruce Vento Hope Builder… Read More
Merck Gets a Double Dose of Bad News in Vioxx Cases
Los Angeles Times Merck & Co. suffered two setbacks Thursday in litigation over its withdrawn painkiller Vioxx, with a Newport Beach product-safety lawyer playing a lead role in one of those losses.… Read More
Inventor of Electronic Voting Verification System Takes Industry Giants to Court for Patent Infringement
The Simmons Hanly Conroy has filed a lawsuit against the three largest voting machine manufacturers for infringing the AVANTE International Technology Corporation’s Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) and optical scan patents.… Read More
Contingency Fees Driving Trend in Commercial Litigation
Article from Missouri Lawyers Weekly that quotes The Simmons Hanly Conroy’s Paul Lesko. 2006 Lawyers respond to small-business clients’ limited budgets Paul Lesko practices intellectual property litigation at Simmons Hanly Conroy in… Read More
Law Firms Court Small Businesses Suing Corporate Giants on Contingency Basis
Recent findings, released in May from Washington, D.C.-based The Polling Co. Inc., support the assumption that businesses of all sizes are looking to those they normally face across the aisle in a… Read More
Court OKs Use of Challenged Expert in Asbestos Trial
In a decision likely to be cited in many toxic tort cases, the Delaware Superior Court for New Castle County denied a motion in limine, by the DaimlerChrysler Corp., to exclude expert… Read More
Pathologist Heads Effort to Get Compensation for Ex-Plant Workers
A pathologist who helped some Mallinckrodt workers and their families get compensation for radiation-induced cancers is spearheading a similar effort for former workers at two Metro-East plants once involved in the nation’s… Read More
Delaware Judge Finds Opinions Linking Chrysotile To Mesothelioma Reliable
Medical and scientific general causation experts presented by plaintiffs alleging that their exposure to friction products in DaimlerChrysler vehicles has caused or will cause asbestos-related disease are sufficiently reliable to pass muster… Read More
Analysts Unsettled by Marketing of Vioxx
Although a New Jersey jury spared Merck & Co. a double hit to the pocketbook, analysts are concerned that its negative findings on the marketing of Vioxx could continue to hurt the… Read More
Legal Profession Goes Global
STEVE INSKEEP, host: No amount of security will protect American lawyers from an import that comes along with globalization. Lawyers and judges have to deal with laws from other countries. NPR’s Ari… Read More
