Current Events and Litigation Handled by The Edward A. Williamson Law Firm
The Mississippi injury lawyers at Edward A. Williamson Law Firm are currently conducting litigation in various geographical locations throughout the State of Mississippi in both Federal and State Courts, while continuing to promote the rights of all citizens to full access of the court's legal services.
Current Litigation
The Edward A. Williamson Law Firm is currently pursuing the rights of clients injured by hormone replacement therapy (HRT), primarily Prempro, in the federal courts of Mississippi and Arkansas. Numerous studies have linked HRT to causing an increased risk of breast cancer among users, and our firm has been active in supporting this litigation nationwide, since its early stagesm hrough service on the Plaintiff's Governing Committee for the Prempro Multi-District Litigation (MDL) 1507. The firm is also pursuing litigation against a variety of manufacturers of drugs which contained the stroke producing chemical phenylpropanolamine (PPA) in Mississippi and in the MDL in Seattle, WA. Additionally, the firm is involved in a variety of birth trauma, ne urological and internal medicine, medical malpractice cases throughout the state of Mississippi. These cases involved such extreme and profound injuries as permanent brain injury, physical incapacity, death, permanent physical impairment and life threatening cancers.
For a more detailed look at The Edward A. Williamson Law Firm's current areas of practice, please visit our Practice Overview page.
The Edward A. Williamson law firm is currently consulting potential clients regarding injuries resulting from the following pharmaceutical drugs: zyprexa, Seroquel, Ortho Evra contraceptive patch, Fosamax, Trasylol, and other dangerous pharmaceutical drugs.
Professional Associations and Continuing Legal Education
The Mississippi personal injury lawyers at Edward A. Williamson Law Firm also takes an active role in seeking professional advancement in excellence through attendance and participation in high level conventions and seminars through the American Association of Justice (AAJ), formerly known as Association of Trial Lawyers of America and the Mississippi Association of Justice, formerly known as, Mississippi Trial Lawyers Association.
Participation and Attendance at Seminars and Conventions
The Edward A. Williamson Law Firm has continued its quest to maintain its position on the cutting edge of trial technique and office technology by attending and/or conducting seminars and lectures by one or more of its attorney's in the following:
- Mississippi Association for Justice - Big Trucks gone Wild (March 27, 2009)
- Ineractive Demonstration with Commerical Motor Vehicle
- Deposing the Defendant Truck Driver
- Breathing Life Into Your Client's Wrongful Death Claim
- Unlocking Black Box & ECM Data
- AAJ's 2009 Winter Convention, New Orleans, LA (February 7-11, 2009):
- Attending Hormone Replacement Therapy, trasylol and Fosamax litigation meetings in addition to a wide variety of lectures
- Taking Exceptional Depositions
- How Trucking Cases Differ from Motor Vehicle Cases
- Increasing Automobile Collision Settlements
- Ghostwritten Medical Literature: Deceit That Harms Patients and Rightly Infuriates Juries
- HRT Deposition Workshop, Phoenix, Arizona (January 22-23, 2009)
- AAJ's 2008 David v. Goliath: How the Plaintiff's Bar is Holding Big Pharma Accountable Seminar, Las Vegas, NV (February 15-16, 2008)
- Expert Selection and Examination
- HRT Litigation Group Meetings
- Winning in Settlement Negotiations:The How and When for Success
- AAJ Trial Masters in Action, Jackson, MS (February 1, 2008)
- AAJ 2008 Winter Convention, San Juan, Puerto Rico (January 26-30, 2008)
- Motivating the Jury to Award Full Damages
- Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Cases: Proof of the Invisible
- Representing Veterans: Fighting for our Troops on the Home Front
- National Issues in Products Liability and Medical Negligence cases
- AAJ's Jazz Fest Seminar Litigating Auto Collision Cases: (May 3-5, 2007)
- Slaying the Insurance Beast
- HOw Insurance Companies Try to Avoid Their Responsibility: Coverage Disputes
- Overcoming Insurance Defense Tactics
- Railroad Crossing Cases
- MTLA's Define & Conquer: Understanding Little Things that Make a Big Difference in Comp (May 4, 2007)
- Defining Workers' Comp
- Mississippi Case Law Updates in Workers' Compensation
If you would like to speak with a Mississippi accident lawyer about our recent events and current litigation, please call our law firm today.