Law Firms

Anheuser-Busch Cos Inc. said on Wednesday it agreed to pay $120 million to settle lawsuits brought by the family of former Major League Baseball star Roger Maris. The brewer said in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that it would take a pretax charge of $105 million in the third quarter. The […]

Los Angeles County prosecutors today filed five felony charges of welfare fraud and perjury against the mother of Michael Jackson’s teenage accuser, the woman whose credibility was at the center of the pop star’s acquittal on child molestation charges. Prosecutors allege that Janet Arvizo received more than $18,000 in welfare benefits illegally by failing to

A host of UK law firms are preparing to fight pharmaceutical giant Merck over its controversial painkiller Vioxx, following Friday’s US ruling against the company. Several firms, including Alexander Harris, Freethcartwright, Hugh James and Liverpool firm MSB Solicitors, are taking cases to the US on behalf of patients and families who have suffered cardiovascular diseases

The public’s attitude to the world’s leading drug companies has always been somewhat ambivalent. On the one hand they expect “Big Pharma” to deliver ever more effective cures for the ills that beset them; on the other they decry the vast profits that the industry makes as in some way exploitative. On Friday August 19th

Partners at the law firm have voted to disband the legal network, founded by Frederic Rene Coudert in New York in 1853. “After exploring various options, the partners of Coudert have authorized the firm to enter into combinations of offices and practice groups with other firms to reflect the strengths of the firm,” Coudert management

Last Wednesday, W. Mark Lanier preached to a jury in Angleton, Tex., telling seven men and five women to remember the story of David and Goliath and smite the drug maker Merck with a verdict that would be heard around the world. On Friday, the jury fulfilled Mr. Lanier’s wishes, finding Merck liable for the

London insurers Hiscox Plc, Axa Art Insurance Ltd. and Ascot Underwriting Ltd. are filing lawsuits against art handler Momart, whose warehouse fire last year consumed art valued at as much as 40 million pounds ($72.4 million). Their allies in the case include artists such as Damien Hirst. The May 2004 fire in east London destroyed

Merck & Co. must pay more than $253 million to the family of a Texas man who died after taking the company’s Vioxx painkiller, a jury ruled in the first personal-injury case over the drug to come to trial. Jurors deliberated more than 10 hours in Angleton, Texas, before awarding $24.4 million in actual damages

A federal grand jury yesterday indicted the former publisher of the Chicago Sun-Times and prosecutors signaled that he is cooperating with a criminal investigation into alleged improper dealings by media tycoon Conrad M. Black. F. David Radler, who was Black’s second in command at Hollinger International Inc., is assisting the authorities and is expected to

Partners at pioneering international law firm Coudert Brothers have voted to let the firm break up after failing to reach a merger agreement with another firm. “After exploring various options, the partners of Coudert have authorized the Firm to enter into combinations of offices and practice groups with other firms to reflect the strengths of