Mark Lanier
Mark Lanier
William Mark Lanieris an American trial lawyer. In October 2012, Mr. Lanier was awarded the coveted Clarence Darrow Award. In 2015, Mark Lanier was named the 2015 Trial Lawyer of the Year by The National Trial Lawyers and The Trial Lawyer magazine during the Trial Lawyers Summit in Miami...
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I don't mince words. I speak bluntly, and I'll continue to do that.
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You've got to punish them. You can choose to speak as loud as you want. If you speak loudly enough, it registers. You can make the whole pharmaceutical industry hear.
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The clock is great! We will have 40 hours to present our evidence. The bad guys have 35. We will speak in clear, simple sentences.
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I'm going to get more damages in the Guerra case than they did in the Ernst case. I want Merck to see that Ernst was a conservative verdict. I'm going to spank them hard.
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It will at least preclude lawyers like me from saying they've resolved to never settle any,
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We've had an incredibly attentive jury. They're sharp, they understand the case and that bodes well for us.
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We want to pick a jury that will pay attention to the evidence and hold Merck to the truth. This case is really about whether drug companies have to tell the truth to the public, and Merck failed to do that.
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This case is about folks trying to make money off of people in a desperate situation. That's not right. You come to people's rescue when they are in a desperate situation. You don't target them as something you can make money off of.
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I felt like we had truth and the jury was paying attention. They had a very tough case to defend. The documents are very difficult for Merck.
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It's gonna be 4:30 on a Friday. That gives the wet cement of what they've listened to time to dry.
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There was no evidence he had a sample box.
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This lawyer didn't make marketing and Merck's deceptions on science the center of the case, ... And that was a mistake because that's the most compelling part.
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What a jury is going to get is A, Merck fudged on the details. B, the fudge was in their favor. C, it was on purpose. D, Merck lied about fudging, or at least covered it up. And E, the most prestigious medical journal in the United States of America has called their hand on it and said this is unethical and wrong.
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We have a right to know. They ought to tell us the good, the bad and the ugly.