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Where genetics meets litigation.

Short, practical pieces on the science behind product liability and life sciences cases — written in plain terms for lawyers. New writing is on the way.

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Published · Aug 2026

The Duty to Warn in the Age of Pharmacogenomics

How the Plavix litigation brings genetic susceptibility, pharmacogenomics, and the pharmaceutical duty to warn into product liability strategy.

Forthcoming

Foreign companies in U.S. discovery

What to prepare, what surprises Japanese companies most, and what AI is beginning to change about review and translation.

Forthcoming

Reading the genome as evidence

A plain-language primer for litigators on what genomic data can and cannot establish in court.

Forthcoming

IPR vs. PGR: a scientist's view

How the underlying science should shape the choice of proceeding before the USPTO.

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