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Foley Mansfield is pleased to announce that Minneapolis-based Partner Elizabeth Sorenson Brotten has been elected President of the Minnesota Defense Lawyers Association (MDLA). Liz has previously chaired MDLA’s Products Liability committee, and co-founded its Women in the Law Committee. For over 60 years, MDLA has been dedicated to serving the…

Foley Mansfield is pleased to announce the inclusion of 14 of the firm’s attorneys in this year’s edition of Best Lawyers in America, with three attorneys named to the 2025 Best Lawyers list and eleven named to the 2025 Ones to Watch List. Best Lawyers, one of the oldest and…

On July 25, 2024 Judge Rebekah Evenson of the Alameda County Superior Court issued her final statement of decision finding Langbord’s client did not commit financial elder abuse against an 86 year old plaintiff when it acquired in 2020 residential real property in Oakland from one of plaintiff’s lenders who…

With lawsuits concerning Ozempic and similar weight-loss drugs potentially becoming the next major mass tort in the U.S., companies should consider key defense strategies ranging from alternate dispute resolution to enhanced drug safety.   By C. Dino Haloulos and Jarif Khan, as published in Law360, July 26, 2024   What…

July 15, 2024, New York, NY – Foley Mansfield is pleased to announce that Dennis Vega has joined as a litigation partner in New York. Dennis defends equipment manufacturers, product manufacturers, premises owners and municipalities in product liability, environmental and toxic tort, maritime law and general liability litigation in state…

The Minnesota legislature recently wrapped up its latest session with a bevy of revised laws (and some new ones too) impacting employers. This article examines some of the biggest changes that employers should know about. Amendments to Earned Sick and Safe Time Law (“ESST”) ESST is paid leave that an…

The Florida Supreme Court has upended a longstanding common law understanding of spousal recovery in wrongful death cases. In a recent decision, the Florida Supreme Court held that a spouse who married a decedent after the onset of the injury that caused decedent’s death is in fact a “surviving spouse”…

Marathon Strategies published a study regarding the rise in the number of “nuclear verdicts”—those with verdicts surpassing $10 million in damages—in the United States in 2023 and termed a new phrase– “thermonuclear verdicts.” The number of cases with nuclear verdicts has increased in 2023 by 27% from 2022, a 15-year…

In November 2021, pursuant to the Biden Administration’s “U.S. Methane Emissions Reduction Plan” and under the terms of the Inflation Reduction Act, the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) published a proposed rule intended to mitigate climate-destabilizing pollution and protect human health by reducing greenhouse gases, including methane, and volatile organic compound…

The New Jersey Supreme Court (4-3 split decision) held on March 25, 2024, that while a retailer may violate the Consumer Fraud Act, if there is no ascertainable loss, there are no real consequences (except potentially being court ordered to cease such practices). In Robey v. SPARC Grp. LLC, (2024…

On April 12, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision in the Bissonnette v. Lepage Bakeries Park St., LLC case, finding that plaintiffs may qualify for an exemption from the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) to allow their wage-and-hour suit to proceed federal court. Facts and Procedural History The…

UPDATE (5/7/24): The final rule has been published in the Federal Register and is effective as of September 4, 2024. You may have seen the headlines announcing that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is banning noncompete clauses, but what actually happened, and what does it mean for your business? On…

The New York State Bar Association Task Force on Artificial Intelligence recently issued a report to the NYSBA House of Delegates regarding artificial intelligence. The report provides recommendations and guidelines regarding the legal, social, and ethical implications of artificial intelligence and generative AI on the legal profession (“AI”). The report…

In a recent legal decision, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals addressed the application of Section 5 of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) to Inhance Technologies’ long-standing fluorination process, a process deployed for over four decades. The court ruled that Section 5 does not extend to Inhance Technology, LLC’s…

New regulations from the Environmental Protection Agency and the White House will not be watering down toxic tort litigation any time soon. On April 10, 2024, the Biden-Harris administration issued a national first —a federal standard that seeks to regulate per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), also known as “forever chemicals”, in…