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Legal Turmoil in the Pharmaceutical Industry: AbbVie, Purdue, and Beyond

Complex Discovery

Supreme Court to protect its corporate records from disclosure, citing a lower court ruling that challenges the sanctity of attorney-client privilege. This settlement would have shielded the Sackler family, Purdue’s wealthy owners, from future civil lawsuits in exchange for a $6 billion payout to opioid crisis victims.

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Reckoning: The Duty to Correct Under RPC 3.3

WA Bar News

In addition to triggering a range of human emotions, this uncomfortable discovery may also raise a duty to correct under the Rules of Professional Conduct, specifically RPC 3.3(a)(1): 9 Here, however, well focus on the ethics rule. 7 Fourth, because the duty to correct under RPC 3.3(a)(1) Comment 3 to RPC 3.3