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“I think we expected the large rubrics,” said Shannon Yavorsky, head of Orrick’s global cyber privacy and data innovation practice. “What I didn’t expect was the level of detail around some of the carve-outs and the broad, broad definitions that are drawn in.”        

In a Tuesday motion, Johnson & Johnson said that Beasley Allen principal Andy Birchfield had struck an alliance with one of its former lawyers, James Conlan, at Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath.        

The verdict marks the fifth consecutive trial win for Roundup plaintiffs in the last month and a half.        

“Allowing the[c]ounty to forsake its duty because Mr. Batton acted in a manner that the jail was required to protect him from is ‘unsupportable from a policy perspective,’” the opinion said. “Anything short of requiring a jail to protect its inmates from a reasonably foreseeable self-injury would render a jail’s duty meaningless.”        

“Some clients are super loyal to their firms that they work with, sometimes blindingly so,” said Joan MacLeod Heminway, a University of Tennessee law professor.