J&J's Third Bankruptcy Gambit Collapses. Now 30,000 Talc Claimants Head Back to the MDL.
Judge Michael Kaplan's ruling ends the two-year Red River Talc detour and reopens a settlement corridor plaintiffs' firms have been shut out of since 2023. Three lead-counsel committee members tell Firm News 360 the per-claim valuation floor is now "meaningfully higher than anything J&J has tabled."
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Inside the AFFF Bellwether Short List: Six Cases, Three Plaintiff Firms, and a $12B Question
Judge Gergel signaled which fact patterns the defendants' coordinating counsel most want to test first. What we learned from the docket and three source conversations this week.
Clio Raised $950M at a $3B Valuation. Here's Who Inside the Funding Round Expects a 2027 IPO.
Two limited partners and a Clio executive on what the Series F means for pricing, competitive pressure on MyCase and Smokeball, and why Filevine is the most mentioned alternative in our 2026 buyer survey.
PI Cost-Per-Lead Jumped 14% in Q1. Here's Where 217 Firms Are Actually Reallocating Spend.
Our quarterly intake-spend benchmark: paid search is flat, Meta is gaining, and three lead vendors are being quietly blacklisted. Full dataset and anonymized spend breakdowns inside.
Third Circuit Affirms NEC Preemption Ruling. What It Means for the 1,800 Cases in State Court.
Chief Judge Chagares' 43-page opinion narrows the defense playbook. Plaintiffs' lead counsel tell us the decision "closes the last meaningful off-ramp" for Abbott and Mead Johnson.
The Quiet TCPA Crackdown: Why Three Mass-Tort Aggregators Just Shut Down Their Call Centers
The $1.54M Prime Marketing judgment was a floor, not a ceiling. A look at which lead-gen operators are restructuring, which are selling, and which are betting on the Seventh Circuit to bail them out.
We Bought 500 Leads From 12 Mass-Tort Vendors. Here's Who Actually Delivered Signed Retainers.
A four-month field test across Roundup, Hair Relaxer, and AFFF. Three vendors hit above 6% sign rate; two were below 1%. Methodology, full rankings, and the one vendor we refuse to name but describe in detail.
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