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Litigation

Jan. 26, 2007

Rounding Up the Big Wins

To hear the state's top trial lawyers tell it, these are hard times for plaintiffs in California.

To hear the state's top trial lawyers tell it, these are hard times for plaintiffs in California.
      The state's mighty consumer attorney lobby has failed to persuade Sacramento lawmakers to ban corporations from reaching secret settlements. And courts increasingly are putting up procedural speed bumps that make it harder for them to present their cases to jurors. The lawyers point to last week's loss of a Vioxx case in Los Angeles' Central C...

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