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06/18/2013
I look forward to working closely with the new crop of leaders of our flagship student organizations, the Roger Williams Moot Court Board and the Roger Williams Law Review.  It is truly a...

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  • February 26, 2013
    From The Voice of Russia Radio: "BP Deepwater Trial Begins" by Victoria Mashkova    WASHINGTON, Feb 25, 2013 09:10 Moscow Time: BP's trial for the Deepwater Horizon explosion begins in New Orleans today. Voice of Russia's Victoria Mashkova talks with David A. Logan, the Dean of Roger Williams University School of Law: Logan calls the Deepwater trial "one of the most complicated cases that the United States courts have ever seen." There are actions being brought against BP by...
  • October 19, 2011
    FROM REUTERS: "RIM could face lawsuits for BlackBerry problems: Some law firms are considering breach-of-contract or consumer-fraud claims over the recent BlackBerry outage" by Moira Herbst and Alastair Sharp Outlets picking up the story include MS-NBC, NPR, the Baltimore Sun, and others. October 19, 2011: Law firms in the United States and Canada are exploring possible consumer lawsuits against Research In Motion for last week's BlackBerry outages, which for three days crippled email and...
  • August 08, 2011
    From BLOOMBERG: "Artificial-Knee Suits Targeting Zimmer Now Haunt Lawyers" by Alex Nussbaum and David Voreacos The story was also picked up by the ABA JOURNAL, Indianapolis Business Journal, and others. August 8, 2011: Zimmer Holdings Inc. (ZMH), facing 78 product-liability lawsuits over its NexGen Flex artificial knees, has a rare strategy to defend the product: target lawyers representing the patients. Attorney Brett Emison, who wrote a blog post about failures in NexGen knees, got a letter...