Big Tobacco's Lawyers Need Help

John Hopkins

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Over 8000 lawsuits and so little time. Florida Big Tobacco lawyers want to call in fellow Big Tobacco lawyers from other states to assist in defending the lawsuits filed by injured victims in the "Engle" tobacco litigation. Apparently, Big Tobacco has told their lawyers to call off the vacations and forget the holidays.

There is a practical reason that Big Tobacco wants to use out of state lawyers. They need to wear down the attorneys who are representing injured victims. Big Tobacco's "scorched earth" approach to defending cases only works if they can throw legions of lawyers at one case and run the costs up for the plaintiff. Big Tobacco's defense strategy only works where they can have 10, 20, or 30 lawyers working against 1 or 2 plaintiffs; generating tons of paper and eating up thousands of hours of time.

Unfortunately, Big Tobacco faces thousands of injured victims and their attorneys. Delay, "throwing money at defense" and hard headed tactics may not work for them this time.