Bellwether Trial Document Preparation
Search this and you get case management orders. Nine of them, from nine different MDLs, and not one vendor page. The firms that do this work do not advertise it, which tells you something about how it gets staffed. A bellwether is tried like any other case, except that the record behind it was built […]
Common Benefit Document Repository Support
Nine case management orders from nine different MDLs rank for this term. Zero vendors. The repository is a funded, court-ordered role, and nobody is competing for it. In an MDL, the leadership group builds one document depository that every plaintiff’s case draws on. It is established by case management order, its costs are usually recoverable […]
Lone Pine Order Compliance Support
In the Zostavax MDL the court dismissed 1,189 cases for failure to comply with a Lone Pine order. Compliance is a document production exercise with case-dismissal stakes, and it is almost always staffed as an afterthought. A Lone Pine order is, in Faegre Drinker’s description, a case management order that requires all plaintiffs to produce […]