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In a Tuesday motion, Johnson & Johnson said that Beasley Allen principal Andy Birchfield had struck an alliance with one of its former lawyers, James Conlan, at Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath.        

The verdict marks the fifth consecutive trial win for Roundup plaintiffs in the last month and a half.        

“Allowing the[c]ounty to forsake its duty because Mr. Batton acted in a manner that the jail was required to protect him from is ‘unsupportable from a policy perspective,’” the opinion said. “Anything short of requiring a jail to protect its inmates from a reasonably foreseeable self-injury would render a jail’s duty meaningless.”        

“Some clients are super loyal to their firms that they work with, sometimes blindingly so,” said Joan MacLeod Heminway, a University of Tennessee law professor.        

Ulmer & Berne LLP and Greensfelder Hemker & Gale will be merging, effective Feb. 1, 2024. The new firm, UB Greensfelder, will have an estimated 275 attorneys across nine offices and an annual gross revenue of approximately $150 million, according to leaders.