The Trial Lawyer Spring 2025 | Page 8

CONTENTS

CONTENTS

departments

DOWN TO BUSINESS 14 High Credit Card Rates Or Predatory
Funding ? Pick Your Poison
FROM THE EXPERTS
18 Bradfield v . Amazon Logistics And How To Establish Agency In Cases Against Amazon , FedEx And Other Last-Mile Logistics Companies
24 Great Vision Without Great People Is Irrelevant
LEGAL BRIEFS
84 Purdue Pharma agrees to $ 7.4B opioid settlement , largest to date • NHTSA to investigate General Motors over engine failure complaints • Blue Ridge Beef issues dog food recall due to salmonella contamination • LinkedIn class action claims company disclosed private messages to train AI • Influencer and content creator commission theft class action lawsuit investigation • Philip Morris settles wrongful death lawsuit over Marlboro cigarettes • Amazon class action alleges Amazon Ads SDK collects customer data • Tesla remote driving feature under NHTSA investigation

features

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The 2025 Trial Lawyers Summit
30
America Fought A Revolution To Stop What ’ s Happening Today
35
Corporate Cannibals Clash Over Profits
39
Google Drops Pledge To Not Use AI To Create Weapons
43
Greenland Taking Painstaking Steps To Protect Themselves
From Trump And American Billionaires
48
America Desperately Needs A Solution To Healthcare Injustice
53
It Is Past Time To Abolish Climate Disasters
56
Ultra-Processed Foods : The Peril On Our Shelves
61
Where Have All The Democrats Gone ?
64
Mike Papantonio Takes On Big Pharma With Latest
Novel The Middleman
69
Trump Thinks He Is Invincible — He ’ s Not
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The Billionaire Coup Is Nearly Complete — And No One
Stopped It
76
The Dangerous Thinking Behind Trump ’ s Effort To Rename
The Gulf Of Mexico
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We Have Entered The Era Of “ Global Boiling ”
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Politicians Are Keeping Us In Denial Of America ’ s Steep Decline