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The Taxpayers Against Fraud Education Fund is holding an SEC Whistleblower Boot Camp from Wednesday, Nov. 16 to Thursday, Nov. 17, 2011

Motley Rice member Fred Thompson III and transvaginal mesh lawyer Jon Orent will speak at HarrisMartin's upcoming Transvaginal Mesh and Actos Litigation Conference 2011

Motley Rice attorney Gregg Levin served as a featured panelist for the Infovest21 Morning Investor Seminar: "Regulatory Changes in a Post- Credit Crisis, Post-Madoff Environment."

Through the years, Motley Rice has enjoyed working with YEScarolina to help support the organization's mission to teach business skills and foster the principles of entrepreneurship among students throughout South Carolina.

For the past ten years, it has been my great privilege to represent the 9/11 Families United to Bankrupt Terrorism, more than 6,600 survivors and family members of those killed on Sept. 11, 2001, in the MDL In re Terrorist Attacks on September 11, 2001 (S.D.N.Y.).

U.S. District Judge Barbier has granted preliminary approval of two class action settlements that were reached between BP and the BP MDL Plaintiffs' Steering Committee (PSC). One of the settlements deals with economic and property damages claims, and the other deals with medical claims.

Judge Barbier granted preliminary approval of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill settlements, and the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana has now issued a press release announcing the start of the court-ordered Notice Program to inform people, businesses and other entities about the settlements.

The British Medical Journal (BMJ) published findings earlier this week indicating that women who use contraceptive transdermal patches or vaginal rings may have an approximate 7.9 and 6.5 times greater risk, respectively, of developing venous thrombosis when compared to women in the same age group who do not use such…

On Monday afternoon, an Air Canada Boeing 777 jet was forced to make an emergency landing after one of its engines failed shortly after takeoff.

On June 4, 2012, the judges overseeing the pelvic mesh multidistrict litigation in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia were notified that Johnson & Johnson subsidiary and pelvic mesh manufacturer Ethicon, Inc., advised the FDA of its plans to recall four of its transvaginal/pelvic…