Hello from the law firm. It’s time for another quarterly “newsletter” which we send to all of our clients as a general update on all of our cases that are in consolidations with many other similar cases, usually referred to in the legal system as MDLs (short for Multi-District Litigation). As mentioned before, our judiciary usually takes all the cases from product recalls, refinery explosions, oil spills, hurricane insurance claims and other “mass tort” dockets and send them all to one judge to handle all the discovery and motion practice, primarily to reduce the case load demands if they were all filed one at a time and handled by many judges all having to hear the same issues over and over. Likewise, some companies tend to jump over to bankruptcy court for legal relief if they have a major disaster and have to fend off many lawsuits at once. We saw this decades ago with the asbestos industry and now it is something that is frequently utilized as an escape hatch for companies who have messed up and have a great deal of negligence claims or other civil cases to defend. We are presently having to deal with the bankruptcy courts with the Boy Scout Litigation, the TPC refinery explosion, and the opioid litigation, including Purdue Pharma and Mallinckrodt.
As we have mentioned before, we continue to pursue new and better ways of handling our responsibilities and stay in touch with our clients from all over the country. I previously mentioned some of these steps in prior newsletters including our role in working with the judiciary 20 years ago to help create the first electronic filing and storage processes to significantly improve efficiency of handling cases and communicating with other parties.
In addition to dedicated websites with updated topical information on various dockets and case activities, we incorporate these newsletters, eblast and text blast communiqués with links to updated and current case specific information, and most recently even occasional audio/video messaging and remote on line “town hall” messaging to keep clients abreast of the most recent developments on the national dockets.
These various updates tend to remain well received by our clients as a supplement of information on their claims so we are definitely going to continue utilizing this additional communication tool in the future and incorporate some additional video content to the newsletters as well. If you need to contact with our firm, please continue using the email addresses and phone numbers we provided before, so you can reach the litigation group working on your case, or you may contact us through our website www.bcoonlaw.com. We will respond as soon as we can.
As stated before, these have been trying times for everyone, but it looks like we are getting past the worst of it. And again, thank you for entrusting your legal matter with our firm.
As we have mentioned before, we continue to pursue new and better ways of handling our responsibilities and stay in touch with our clients from all over the country. I previously mentioned some of these steps in prior newsletters including our role in working with the judiciary 20 years ago to help create the first electronic filing and storage processes to significantly improve efficiency of handling cases and communicating with other parties.
In addition to dedicated websites with updated topical information on various dockets and case activities, we incorporate these newsletters, eblast and text blast communiqués with links to updated and current case specific information, and most recently even occasional audio/video messaging and remote on line “town hall” messaging to keep clients abreast of the most recent developments on the national dockets.
These various updates tend to remain well received by our clients as a supplement of information on their claims so we are definitely going to continue utilizing this additional communication tool in the future and incorporate some additional video content to the newsletters as well. If you need to contact with our firm, please continue using the email addresses and phone numbers we provided before, so you can reach the litigation group working on your case, or you may contact us through our website www.bcoonlaw.com. We will respond as soon as we can.
As stated before, these have been trying times for everyone, but it looks like we are getting past the worst of it. And again, thank you for entrusting your legal matter with our firm.