Stephen D. Feldman Ellis & Winters partner Stephen Feldman presented an appellate-advocacy CLE program on July 30 at the 2015 Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel (FDCC) Annual Meeting in Banff, Alberta. Entitled “Trying Your Case To Win . . . in the Court of Appeals, That Is,” the program offered practice pointers for […]
Leslie C. Packer Leslie Packer and Nora Sullivan recently obtained a dismissal with prejudice of a lawsuit alleging various state law causes of action stemming from a medical device manufacturer’s alleged off-label promotion of its device. Ellis & Winters represented medical device manufacturer Pioneer Surgical Technology, Inc. and its successor, RTI Surgical, Inc. in the […]
Kelly Margolis Dagger By Kelly Margolis Dagger Consider the following two statements: “The company’s business practices are legal.” “We believe the company’s business practices are legal.” From an investor’s perspective, do both statements have the same meaning? The United States Supreme Court thinks not. The former expresses a fact, the latter an opinion. […]
Thomas H. Segars By C. Scott Meyers & Thomas H. Segars In pari delicto is an equitable defense asserted when a defendant claims that a plaintiff is equally at fault for the wrong that has befallen him. The doctrine is “rooted in the common-law notion that a plaintiff’s recovery may be barred by his own wrongful […]