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By Ryan Boysen | July 29,2019 Larry Webster was being given a second chance. A hulking, self-described “country boy” from a small town in rural Maryland, Webster spent 10 years in the NFL smashing into other players as a defensive tackle and won the 2001 Super Bowl with the Baltimore Ravens just before he retired […]
By Stephen A. Weiss, Seeger Weiss LLP New Jersey has been at the epicenter of a reckoning for the Catholic Church. Last month, Governor Phil Murphy signed into law a bill that gives survivors of sexual abuse more time to hold institutions like the Church accountable, which for decades swept allegations under the rug. Meanwhile, […]
Seeger Weiss founding partner, Chris Seeger, has been appointed to the MDL Executive Committee of pending antitrust litigation against drug maker AbbVie for the company’s action regarding popular immune drug, Humira. A number of lawsuits against AbbVie and other pharmaceutical companies have been brought by insurance clients and other end-payers due to accusations that the […]
By Corky Siemaszko: The money was spent in eight northeastern states where bills to aid victims of clerical sex abuse were in the works. The U.S. Catholic Church spent $10.6 million on lobbyists to prevent victims of clerical sex abuse from suing for damages. According to a new report, the money was doled out from 2011 […]
The Catholic Church has spent more than $10.6 million on lobbying in northeastern states since 2011 — and has poured a significant amount of that money into blocking bills aimed at clergy sexual abuse, a recent study revealed. The analysis of lobbying data, conducted by the Seeger Weiss and Williams Cedar law firms and dubbed […]
Law360 (May 24, 2019, 7:40 PM EDT) — In a move that came as a surprise and left many attorneys furious, the federal judge overseeing the NFL’s landmark concussion settlement terminated all of the deal’s leading lawyers except Chris Seeger on Friday, heightening long-simmering tensions between Seeger and his fellow attorneys and plunging the contentious […]