In the latest volley by pharmaceutical defendants seeking alternative forums to Pennsylvania state court, drugmaker Pfizer has asked that almost 50 cases that have been removed to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania be consolidated into one multidistrict litigation.

Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s have lost their latest bid to use a free speech defense based on California’s anti-SLAPP statute to knock out claims over $1.3 billion in investments brought by the nation’s largest pension plan, the California Public Employees’ Retirement System.

The team heading up Credit Suisse’s litigation finance unit has struck out on its own in New York under the name Parabellum Capital, becoming the latest independent outfit to enter the growing field of third-party litigation funding in the United States.

Jerone English, director of e-discovery for Intel, speaks to LTN magazine’s editor-in-chief, Monica Bay, about how rank-and-file lawyers can get up to speed on the latest electronic data discovery policies and procedures.

In the latest in a string of recent developments involving law firms hoping to transfer so-called unfinished business claims out of bankruptcy court, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe has triumphed in its bid to move a claim brought against it in the Coudert Brothers bankruptcy to federal district court.