Seven Philadelphians who would make a better mayor
Too short a list, I know.
Ajay Raju
The former Dilworth Paxson CEO has flirted with the top job since as far back as 2014 but never formally thrown his hat into the ring. Yet, he possesses many of the qualities a good mayor makes – having a strong business acumen and ability to lure investors; he’s been the leader of a massive law firm, so he knows how to problem-solve, delegate and negotiate, and he’s made many philanthropic efforts in the fields of media and technology. Then, of course, there’s his style – which could serve to either help or hinder him in a mayoral campaign – coming off as media-savvy or out of touch with the common man (or woman).
Zappala
PITTSBURGH – Through an alliance of District Attorney Stephen Zappala and private lawyers, Allegheny County has filed suit against 10 different drug manufacturers, for damages connected to both the companies’ alleged false marketing of opioid drugs and the county’s combating the use and abuse of opioids.
Allegheny County filed suit in the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas on Feb. 3 versus Allergan, Cephalon, Inc., Teva Pharmaceuticals, Endo, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Johnson & Johnson, AmerisourceBergen Drug Corp., Cardinal Health and McKesson Corp.
“Fueled by dangerous prescription opioid drugs, Allegheny County, like many other cities, counties and states across the country, is now engulfed in an opioid epidemic, which has led to a public health and safety crisis of an unprecedented and disastrous nature,” the suit says.
By Adrian Cruz
California-based Procopio Cory Hargreaves & Savitch LLP continued the expansion of its office in Orange County with a pair of experienced attorneys as partners in its trusts and estates group, the firm announced.
By Emma Cueto
After more than two decades of litigation, Best Best & Krieger LLP last week won an appellate decision for a waterworks district in Los Angeles County in a high-stakes case over water rights in an area with around 400,000 people, several agricultural interests and a federal air base.
By Adrian Cruz
In a first-of-its-kind jury trial involving a university s student disciplinary process, Burr & Forman LLP partners Jim Gilliam and Hunter Freeman convinced a South Carolina federal jury that Coastal Carolina University didn t discriminate against a male student by expelling him from the school following a sexual assault investigation.
An attorney representing the East Whiteland biotechnology firm sued by Chester County last week to recover more than $11 million in taxpayer funds spent on test kits that would identify the presence or absence of COVID-19 antibodies has fired back, blaming the county for the failed business deal.
And, attorney Michael Scott said in an email Sunday the firm still wants the $7 million it claims it is owed for the 1 million kits.
Scott, a contract attorney and pharmaceutical litigator with his own firm, said that he and former Dilworth Paxson chairman Ajay Raju of Philadelphia, representing the firm, Advaite, and its founder and chairman, Karthik Musunuri, in the lawsuit had not seen the countyâs complaint, which was filed late Friday. Thus, he could not address the specific claims the county made in its litigation.
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