Litigation

Consumer Products

James E. Tyrrell, Jr. | Sills Cummis & Gross P.C.

Here are five tips from Sills mass tort co-chair James E. Tyrrell, Jr. on anticipating claims, and five more on building a proactive institutional framework.

CCBJ: What does it mean to get ahead of the curve in the context of large-scale litigation?

Jim Tyrrell: There are five factors in-...

Litigation

Jonathan D. Lupkin | Lupkin PLLC

The Commercial Division Advisory Counsel shapes the rules with the times.

There was a time when New York did not offer litigants an adequate forum for resolving complex commercial disputes. As Robert L. Haig wrote in the 4th Edition of Commercial Litigation in New York State Courts:...

Discovery

Jason Harmon, Claire Hillman | Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

The collective book of federal case law is full of quotable one-liners about the broad nature of civil discovery. These pithy passages embolden the plaintiffs’ bar to request almost anything and result in a judiciary hesitant to shut down seemingly relevant but broad discovery requests. As a...