For the NRA, litigation is only one piece of an overall plan, Klukowski explained, one in which "legislative efforts, administrative efforts, grassroots communication, and participation in the electoral process all operate in tandem [with litigation], to create a synergistic effect".
Donziger told VICE News he believes that "efforts by [Chevron's lawyers] to suppress these stunning tapes is part of a much larger litigation strategy designed to create a smokescreen around the company's criminal acts in Ecuador with the goal of distracting shareholders, the financial markets, regulators, and ultimately courts from learning the truth".
"We think that this bill is primarily designed to create a massive amount of new litigation in our country," said Mr. McConnell, the minority leader.
But the litigation involving BP has become especially bitter because of a request to the judge last month by the 17-member leadership asking to create a fund that could be used to cover litigation costs.
"It was not inevitable, but it would have been very difficult to create a new government and conduct this litigation, particularly if Trump had to testify.
In "Learning From Litigation" (Op-Ed, May 17), Prof. Joanna C. Schwartz takes a useful development — that hospitals are starting to be more open about their mistakes — and leaps to the conclusion that there's no reason to create a more reliable system of malpractice litigation.
Midsize litigation and construction law firm Gadsby Hannah of Boston has agreed to merge with McCarter & English to create a 430-lawyer firm with eight offices in the Northeast.
In June, BP sized up this onslaught of litigation as well as its sagging stock price and, under pressure from the Obama administration, struck an unprecedented deal to create a $20 billion trust fund to compensate those damaged by the spill.
His task is to create a practical way to assess and pay claims, promptly and fairly, and in that way spare everyone the torture of endless litigation.
It's impossible to create a modern series about high-powered lawyers without citing Steven Bochco's "L.A. Law," a landmark series that was to sex and litigation what Brown v. Board of Education was to discrimination.
Another option would be to create a product-liability fund for drug makers along similar lines to the one for vaccine makers.As for Merck, Dick Clark, its new boss, faces many other challenges aside from litigation.
