How aggressive and petty are lawyers who represent big drug companies? There's a delightful item on Ed Silverman's Pharmalot today that provides a snapshot on that issue:
"A funny thing happened on the way to the courthouse last week in New Brunswick, NJ. A large number of Wyeth lawyers and their opponents, who were representing a woman suing the drugmaker over its hormone replacement therapy, were staying in the same hotel. But then the lawyers for the plaintiff, Ellen Deutsch, were suddenly asked to leave their handful of rooms."
The plaintiffs' lawyers said the hotel told them that Wyeth wanted them out -- and as Wyeth had paid for about 40 rooms for its lawyers and staff, they were using their leverage.
Wyeth denied it:
“The hotel booking for these trials is done by a travel logistics firm. Without our knowledge, this firm took it upon themselves to ask the hotel to move the plaintiff’s team when they found out they were staying at the same hotel as our lawyers. Wyeth did NOT know they were doing this, nor did we authorize it. When our lawyers found out, they immediately put a stop to it and apologized to the plaintiff’s lawyers. This was a case of an overzealous vendor - nothing more.”
Regular readers may recognize this statement as yet another version of the Cephalon defense (ie, it wasn't us wot did it, it was someone else).
And Ed wisely notes:
"A Wyeth spokesman didn’t provide any info about the ‘travel logistics firm,’ how it suddenly learned that both teams of lawyers were staying at the same hotel, why such a move was made on the eve of the trial, or what, if any action was taken by the drugmaker against this mysterious firm."
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Posted by: bridesmaiddresses | April 07, 2011 at 10:40 PM