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Mark Lanier Named Among Nation’s Top 100 Trial Lawyers by Benchmark Litigation in 2020

HOUSTON – Mark Lanier, founder of The Lanier Law Firm, has been recognized as one of the “Top 100 Trial Lawyers in America” in the Benchmark Litigation guide to the nation’s finest litigators.    This marks the fifth consecutive year that Mr. Lanier has been honored by the publication for his commercial litigation practice as well as his success in the area […]

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Jury Returns $2 Million Verdict for Worker Injured on Construction Site

Jury trial among first conducted in Texas since onset of pandemic  BROWNWOOD, Texas – In one of the state’s first in-person jury trials in the past seven months, a Brown County jury on Friday awarded $1.95 million for injuries suffered by a worker who fell 11 feet through an unmarked opening onto a concrete floor.   The 67-year-old worker was performing an asbestos inspection on the first floor of the Texas Department

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Nine Lanier Law Firm Attorneys Recognized on List of Texas Super Lawyers

HOUSTON – Nine attorneys from The Lanier Law Firm have earned spots on the 2020 Texas Super Lawyers list.    Firm founder W. Mark Lanier was again named one of the Top 10 attorneys in the state based on his work in class actions and mass torts. In July 2018, Mr. Lanier secured one of the largest verdicts in plaintiffs’ personal injury history, a nearly $4.7 billion

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Judge Rules Tamiflu-Maker Hoffman-La Roche Must Answer Whistleblower Fraud Claims

Lawsuit seeks more than $4B taxpayer recovery for Tamiflu false claims BALTIMORE – Tamiflu-maker Hoffman-La Roche (OTCMKTS – RHHBY) must answer to whistleblower charges that it falsified claims of Tamiflu’s effectiveness in fighting influenza and fraudulently induced the federal government to stockpile millions of doses for a feared flu pandemic, a federal judge in Maryland ruled

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Four Lanier Law Firm Verdicts Named to NLJ’s Hall of Fame

HOUSTON — The Lanier Law Firm achieved four of the nation’s largest jury verdicts in the past five years, as reported in the National Law Journal’s new publication of the “Top Hall of Fame Verdicts.”  The firm garnered the largest jury award on the prestigious list for a $4.69 billion verdict in Missouri state court in July 2018 on behalf of 22 women alleging that their frequent use

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Federal Lawsuit Claims Yahoo Management’s Secret Pact with China Supported Torture, Imprisonment of Pro-Democracy Activists

SAN JOSE, Calif. – Attorneys for renowned Chinese activist Ning Xianhua have filed a federal lawsuit alleging that Yahoo Inc. founder Jerry Yang and CEO Terry Semel provided Mr. Ning’s Yahoo emails to Chinese authorities in a joint effort to silence pro-democracy dissidents in China and to aid Mr. Ning’s capture, imprisonment, and torture by Chinese government officials. Yahoo’s successor companies, Oath Holdings, a division of Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) and Altaba Inc. (NASDAQ:

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Mark Lanier Leading Efforts to Consolidate Business-Related COVID-19 Coverage Claims In Federal MDL

In a 90-minute video hearing before the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation, the firm’s Mark Lanier advocated for a national consolidation of the growing number of COVID-19-related business interruption claims against insurers. Mr. Lanier told the seven-member panel that centralizing those cases in federal court would create a consistency among any differing interpretations of policy

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