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Category Archives: Audrey Fried-Grushcow

Jeremy Grushcow Featured in a Globe & Mail Story About Lawyers & Social Media

None other than our very own Jeremy Grushcow is featured in the Law Pages of the Globe & Mail today in a story about lawyers and social media. Go look for yourself – it’s really true. The story was also picked up by @stevematthews on Twitter and by the à l’avant garde blog at lesaffaires.com. Congrats to Jeremy [...]

No Preemption No Problem: State Courts Step Up

For anyone following the U.S. Supreme Court’s emerging case law on FDA approval and preemption (as we have been here, here, here, and here), it looks like the next frontier is going to be state law. With the Supreme Court’s ruling that drug manufacturers are subject to state tort claims even if they have undergone [...]

Supreme Court Hears Oral Arguments in False Claims Act Whistleblower Case

The United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments today in a case we noted in June in which amici curiae PhRMA and BIO urged the Supreme Court to limit whistleblower suits under the False Claims Act (FCA). Feel like you were really there by reading the full transcript of the oral argument (pdf). Out loud. In [...]

Jeremy Grushcow Quoted by Lexpert on Social Media

A Lexpert Magazine article that came out yesterday quotes our illustrious Jeremy Grushcow. The article about law firms and social media cites Jeremy’s experience using social media to facilitate real life connections between people in his network. Also featured were blawging expert Simon Fodden and his co-operative Canadian legal blog Slaw, where Jeremy contributes weekly posts on [...]

Jeremy Grushcow Discusses Comparative Effectiveness and Personalized Medicine in Counsel to Counsel Magazine’s Life Sciences Feature

Check out Jeremy’s blurb on the intersection of comparative effectiveness and personalized medicine in the September/October issue of Counsel to Counsel Magazine. For more on these subjects, visit this blog’s Trends in 2009 page.

Dani Peters Featured in California Healthcare Institute Podcast on Strategies for Government Funding

The California Healthcare Institute has a new podcast up that features Dani Peters (this blog’s government relations expert) talking about “opportunities that now exist to find alternative forms of funding from government sources and tips for navigating the complexities of Washington and the new political landscape to help entrepreneurs find funding sources that were not [...]

Welcome to Richard Chan!

The Cross-Border Biotech Blog welcomes Richard Chan as a regular contributor and our new Science Writer.  Richard has a Ph.D. in molecular biology and biotechnology and has done postdoctoral research on cancer signaling and proteomics at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School in Boston and at the Ontario Cancer Institute in Toronto.  He currently [...]

Corporate Liability Journal Article on Wyeth v. Levine, Reigel v. Medtronic and Medtronic v. Lohr

Check out Jeremy’s latest article, published in the current issue of Corporate Liability Journal. In The Changing Landscape of U.S. State Tort Liability for FDA-Approved Drugs and Medical Devices (pdf), Jeremy and his co-author, Alison Varga, take a more detailed look at this year’s U.S. Supreme Court decisions in Wyeth v. Levine and Reigel v. Medtronic, which Jeremy [...]

PhRMA and BIO in the U.S. Supreme Court: False Claims Act Whistleblowers Beware

As PhRMA and BIO hoped it would, the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear the appeal of a False Claims Act (FCA) case that could determine how easy it is to bring a whistleblower suit under the statute.  Noting the prevalence of healthcare fraud cases brought under the FCA, PhRMA and BIO filed a brief [...]

Jeremy Grushcow Quoted in Nature Biotechnology

Check out the quotes from our fearless leader in Brian Orelli’s piece on the tensions between investors and management at biotech companies.

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Audrey Fried-Grushcow (not no relation) is a U.S.-trained lawyer and mediator.  After law school, Audrey clerked for Judge William J. Bauer on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and practiced in the area of complex commercial litigation for several years at a large Chicago-based law firm before turning her attention to mediation and conflict resolution. She is [...]

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