Litigation

Career Development

Jeffrey Huron, Phu Nguyen | Dykema Gossett PLLC

Serving as second chair on a jury trial is one of the most exciting opportunities for an aspiring trial attorney. As second chair, an attorney is responsible for ensuring that everything runs smoothly during trial. That means keeping track of everything that needs to happen behind the scenes,...

Appellate Law

Beth S. Rose, Vincent Lodato | Sills Cummis & Gross P.C.

In Pliva, Inc. v. Mensing, 131 S. Ct. 2567 (2011), the United States Supreme Court held that state law failure to warn claims against manufacturers of generic pharmaceutical products were impliedly pre-empted by federal law because FDA regulations preclude generic manufacturers from including...

Intellectual Property

Audrey Jing Faber | Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

Editor: Please summarize the legal issues pertaining to copyright infringement claims arising from work that a plaintiff alleges was accessed via the Internet. Faber: In order to prevail on a claim for copyright infringement, a plaintiff must establish both ownership of a valid copyright and...