Judge Won't Stop Suit Against Clinical Lab
October 05, 2005
In a ruling that breaks new ground in the area of drug products liability, a federal judge has refused to dismiss negligence and fraud claims against a clinical laboratory for allegedly conspiring with a drug manufacturer to mislead the FDA.
Company Agrees to Pay $74 Million to Resolve Allegations
October 05, 2005
Natick, MA-based Boston Scientific Corp. has agreed to pay $74 million to the United States to resolve an ongoing investigation concerning its 1998 distribution and subsequent recall of one of its coronary stent delivery systems. In agreeing to the settlement, the company did not admit to any wrongdoing.
Dangerous Drug Trials
October 05, 2005
A federal judge in Manhattan has dismissed for a second time class action claims against drug maker Pfizer Inc. by Nigerian families who claim the company put their children in dangerous drug trials without consent.
<b>Product Review:</b> Equitrac Professional Enterprise Edition v4.63
October 05, 2005
At a firm the size of Becker & Poliakoff, with more than 110 attorneys dispersed among 15 different offices throughout Florida, plus international and affiliate offices in Europe, the Middle East and China, the willingness to embrace technology and technological innovations has been a proven key to our ability to provide cost effective, high quality legal services to our clients. That's why we were very pleased when Equitrac introduced the latest version (v4.63) of its Equitrac Professional Enterprise Edition. Its ability to automatically synchronize Equitrac's cost-recovery solution with our time-and-billing software made integration seamless and has dramatically improved cost recovery at our firm.
Intelligent e-Discovery Search Practices
October 05, 2005
As more documentation finds its way into an electronic format, companies must take into account the cost of producing and analyzing them in the discovery process. In particular, firms must address fundamental ways they conduct their pre-trial deliberations to remain in-step with recent judicial rulings and technological advances. <br>Ballooning sets of electronic files bring escalating costs as well as new priorities for managing them.
Methods of Effective Document Selection in Law Firms
October 05, 2005
The saying "garbage in, garbage out" is often familiar to computer users. It means that computer systems are only as good as the information provided to them. The saying is a reminder of how important proper document selection is for any document retrieval system a firm chooses to deploy.
'Mod' to 'SOX' to 'ISA'
October 05, 2005
Almost 10 years before the enactment of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (hereinafter SOX), the U.S. Customs Service, now U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), persuaded Congress to enact legislation to mandate many of the same corporate compliance guidelines that are now prevalent under SOX. That law, the Customs Modernization and Informed Compliance Act (Mod Act), Pub. L. 103-182, became effective Dec. 8, 1993.
