Texas firms will have cases on 2011 Philadelphia asbestos docket
12/6/2010 1:22 PM By John O'Brien
Coon
PHILADELPHIA (Legal Newsline) - Texas law firms including Baron & Budd and Brent Coon & Associates make up some of the firms with cases next year on Philadelphia's asbestos docket at the Complex Litigation Center.
A list of all trials scheduled for 2011 shows only 10 different law firms will be trying cases in Philadelphia, where a process called "reverse bifurcation" is used. A jury decides damages in the first phase of the trial, and then determines if the defendant is liable in the second part.
Read more ...