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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

Fucile In the course of a case, litigators typically make all sorts of statements to courts on the facts and the law. 2 Some are in briefs, while others are made in open court. 9 Here, however, well focus on the ethics rule. on meritorious claims and contentions, and court rules, such as CR 11(a) governing pleading standards.