Individual Justice in Mass Tort Litigation: The Effect of Class Actions, Consolidations, and Other Multiparty DevicesNorthwestern University Press, 1995 - 367 من الصفحات One of the most prominent of contemporary jurists, Judge Jack B. Weinstein has influenced substantive and procedural aspects of the law of mass tort litigation. He has helped create efficient yet compassionate solutions to problems resulting from Vietnam veterans' exposure to Agent Orange and to the health hazards associated with asbestos and DES. |
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... lawyers represent more than ten thousand plaintiffs . In other mass torts , such as DES or Dalkon Shield or toxic dump pollutions , lawyers routinely have carried many hundreds of clients at a time . " The efficiency advantages due to ...
... lawyers represent more than ten thousand plaintiffs . In other mass torts , such as DES or Dalkon Shield or toxic dump pollutions , lawyers routinely have carried many hundreds of clients at a time . " The efficiency advantages due to ...
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... lawyer's relationship to a client . " ) . 2. The duty of undivided loyalty has been described as follows : The ideal of the Code [ governing lawyers ] is that the lawyer's princi- pal duty ( or set of duties ) runs hard and straight to ...
... lawyer's relationship to a client . " ) . 2. The duty of undivided loyalty has been described as follows : The ideal of the Code [ governing lawyers ] is that the lawyer's princi- pal duty ( or set of duties ) runs hard and straight to ...
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... lawyer " who rushes to the scene of an accident . These stories , he points out , fail to reveal that often it is only the lawyers who remain to serve the poor and uneducated . " [ S ] ome of the best lawyers in the world travel ...
... lawyer " who rushes to the scene of an accident . These stories , he points out , fail to reveal that often it is only the lawyers who remain to serve the poor and uneducated . " [ S ] ome of the best lawyers in the world travel ...
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