Civil Litigation,
Alternative Dispute Resolution
May 24, 2019
Ruling shows importance for early discovery into arbitration
Any lawyer who represents plaintiffs in complex cases knows the difference between defenses raised on the pleadings versus defenses raised at later stages of the litigation. Often the story told in the motion to dismiss fades away — having been dismantled by later-produced evidence. This applies to arbitration motions as well.
Dena C. Sharp
Partner
Girard Sharp LLP
Phone: (415) 981-4800
Email: dsharp@girardsharp.com
Dena is currently challenging pharmaceutical companies' pricing practices and serving as lead counsel for IVF clients whose frozen eggs and embryos were compromised when a storage tank at a fertility center failed. Outside the courtroom, Dena is a member of the American Law Institute, sits on the board of directors of the Impact Fund, and serves as a Lawyer Representative for the Ninth Circuit Judicial Council.
In March 2018, a long-term storage freezer holding invaluable reproductive tissue failed: A lab technician at the cryogenic storage facilities at Pacific Fertility Center in San Francisco noticed liquid on the floor under a storage tank that housed thousands of frozen eggs and embryos belonging to hundreds of individuals and families. The liquid nitrogen levels in "Tank 4" had dropped to unsafe levels, destroying or jeopardizing the eggs and embryos stored in the tank...
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