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Trial Tactics in Psychiatrist Liability Cases

Joshua D. Koskoff

The average juror may not be aware of the extent of mental-health professionals' duty to protect innocent third parties from their dangerous patients, and they may be reluctant to hold these professionals responsible. Following are some strategies that will help to get the plaintiff's point of view across to the fact finder.

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Experimental Drugs and the Compassionate Use Doctrine

Janice G. Inman

While gaining access to drugs not yet approved by the FDA can be a difficult task, many people will go to nearly any lengths to get them, even suing a drug manufacturer to force it to provide them the drug. That's what happened in the case of <i>Gunvalson v. PTC Therapeutics Inc.</i>, a case recently overturned on appeal.

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Spoliation in a Medical Malpractice Case

Kim M. Ruder

Spoliation in the context of a medical malpractice case can raise many issues for lawyers representing doctors and hospitals. These issues can often be overlooked until it is too late to repair the damage done.

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Stan Soocher

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Recent rulings of interest to you and your practice.

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Activision/Blizzard Merger Shows Video Game Industry Challenges

Theodora Blanchfield

In late 2007, Activision CEO Robert Kotick, the jolly-looking entrepreneur known as one of the smartest and toughest in the business, approached Vivendi Games, which published World of Warcraft through its subsidiary Blizzard Entertainment Inc. Kotick made an offer for Blizzard, but Vivendi countered by suggesting that the two companies merge ' with Kotick at the helm. The merger, which was completed in July 2008, created a publicly traded company, Activision Blizzard Inc., that is the most impressive video game business in the world ' running neck-and-neck in revenues with longtime leader Electronic Arts Inc. ' and surpassing it in profits.

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Arbitrate or Litigate? Choose Your Poison

Ralph A. Morris

With the costs of defending employment discrimination lawsuits continuing to escalate, employers continue to search for alternatives. One alternative is a method of resolving disputes without involving the judicial system: arbitration.

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