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In the late 1990s and early 2000s, BDO Seidman, LLP (“BDO”) allegedly engaged in a multibillion-dollar fraudulent tax scheme that negatively affected thousands of its clients. Filipowski v. Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP, 2022 IL App (1st) 211352-U, ¶ 2, appeal pending (Mar Term 2023). During this time, BDO retained the law firm of Morgan,…

On April 12, 2023, Unlimited Care, Inc. (“UCI”) filed a notice of data breach with the Maine Attorney General after learning that a “network disruption” resulted in confidential employee information being compromised. Based on the company’s official filing, the incident resulted in an unauthorized party gaining access to consumers’ names, addresses, dates of birth, and…

Every premises liability case is defendable if the commercial business has procedures in place for inspections, cleaning and maintenance, and those procedures are carried out. Most commonly, businesses are sued due to a slip and fall or a trip and fall accident. And most commonly, people are caused to slip or trip and fall due…

In a past blog post, we predicted that data is arguably the products liability issue of the future, and we also explored some ways in which data can be used as a sword and a shield in products liability cases. However, arguably the most pressing, and most practically limiting issue surrounding the use of data…

Topics for Discussion Include: – Filing trends by disease, jurisdiction, plaintiff firm – Defendant naming trends – Analyses of plaintiff attributes including gender and age – Exposure analyses including: – Primary, secondary, and combination exposures – Occupational vs. non-occupational exposures – Talc exposures being alleged in traditional asbestos complaints……By: Perrin Conferences, LLC