The Reed Smith Life Sciences Health Industry Group will be hosting an upcoming CLE webinar “Personal Jurisdiction: What Bauman Does and Doesn’t Mean, the Other Side’s Response, and Why Corporations Should Care” on June 14, 2016 at 12 p.m. ET. Reed Smith presenters Jim Beck and Steve McConnell will be discussing how plaintiffs’ lawyers are … Continue Reading
A friendly reminder that the Reed Smith LSHI (Life Sciences Health Industry) Group will be hosting an upcoming November 18, 2015 Life Sciences 1/2 day CLE from 9:00 a.m. ET until 1:30 p.m. ET at their Philadelphia Office. All the details can be found in our previous post here. Registration and breakfast begin at 8:30 … Continue Reading
The Reed Smith Life Sciences Health Industry (LSHI) Group will be hosting an upcoming Life Sciences 1/2 day CLE on November 18, 2015 from 9:00 a.m. ET until 1:30 p.m. ET at their Philadelphia Office. Reed Smith presenters Stephen J. McConnell, James M. Beck, Michael T. Scott, Thomas H. Suddath, Jr., Amy M. Vanni and Rachel B. … Continue Reading
Last year, the Supreme Court sent a resounding message regarding personal jurisdiction when it decided Daimler AG v. Bauman, 134 S.Ct. 746, 752 (2014). Bauman announced a significantly more stringent standard for finding a corporation to be “essentially at home” in a foreign jurisdiction and, as a result, made personal jurisdiction harder to establish in … Continue Reading
Reed Smith attorneys Jim Beck and Michelle Cheng explain in a recent Washington Legal Foundation Legal Backgrounder that the Supreme Court's decisions in Goodyear Dunlop Tires Operations, S.A. v. Brown (2011) and Daimler AG v. Bauman (2014) have narrowed the permitted scope of "general" personal jurisdiction against corporations. As a result, corporate defendants might want to think twice before making a general appearance in new cases filed in states other than the states in which they have incorporated or have located their principal place of business.… Continue Reading
