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A bomb scare Thursday night led to the grounding of three cargo planes in the Northeast United States. The first suspicious package was reportedly a "manipulated" ink toner cartridge with wires attached on a flight thought to be traveling from Yemen to Chicago. Another suspicious package was found on a flight in Dubai. Both packages were sent from Yemen.

Motley Rice co-founder Joe Rice will serve as a guest speaker for HB Litigation Conference LLC's DePuy Hip Recall & Avandia Updates Conference being held Wednesday, November 3, 2010, at the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach, FL.

Motley Rice LLC is proud to sponsor the 2010 MUSC Children's Hospital "Kids Helping Kids" Holiday Card Project, an annual fundraiser to help raise money for various programs, education and research efforts at the MUSC Children's Hospital.

On October 20, 2010, the Honorable Alvin K. Hellerstein of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York set a trial date for the case Bavis v. United Airlines, Inc.

Read articles on the judge's decision in <i>The New York Times</i>, the <i>New York Daily News </i> and by the Associated Press.

Motley Rice LLC co-founders, Ron Motley and Joe Rice were among the names on a list of only 75 plaintiffs' trial lawyers based on a survey entitled Trial Lawyer Kingpins by Mark Behrens, product liability and mass torts partner of Shook, Hardy & Bacon, and Of Counsel Cary Silverman.

Motley Rice securities attorneys and co-counsel Sturman LLC filed suit on behalf of one of Germany's largest state-owned banks against Goldman, Sachs & Co. (Goldman Sachs) and TCW Asset Management Company (TCW) on October 5, 2010 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Motley Rice's medical practice group leader Fred Thompson will serve as a guest speaker at the annual Mass Torts Made Perfect Seminar being held at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, Nevada, from Thursday, Oct. 14, 2010, to Friday, Oct. 15, 2010.

Motley Rice is proud to sponsor and participate in the annual Ashley G Charitable Foundation's Invitational Golf Tournament being held October 11, 2010 at the Reserve Golf Club in Pawley's Island, SC.

Motley Rice attorneys continue to work with co-counsel Susan Burke and her firm Burke PLLC in the KBR, Inc., Burn Pit multidistrict litigation to represent clients against multiple defense contractors for allegedly exposing military personnel to toxins generated by open-air burn pits on military bases in Iraq and Afghanistan.