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  1. March 14, 2017

    GSK Owes $12M To Widow of Reed Smith Atty, Jury Hears

    The widow of a Reed Smith LLP partner who took his own life in 2010 says pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline owes her $12 million for the role that a generic Paxil prescription played in the attorney's death, a role that the company strenuously denied at the opening of a federal jury trial Tuesday.

  2. March 09, 2017

    GSK, Reed Smith Partner's Widow Preview Paxil Jury Trial

    An FDA-endorsed label change for antidepressants in 2007 didn't go far enough to alert doctors about the increased risk of suicidality in patients taking GlaxoSmithKline's Paxil, the widow of a deceased Reed Smith partner told an Illinois federal judge Thursday, offering a brief glance of what is to come at a jury trial next week.

  3. March 07, 2017

    GSK Wants Paxil Study Testimony Nixed In Suicide Case

    GlaxoSmithKline asked an Illinois federal judge on Monday to toss a deposition that calls GSK studies on the drug Paxil's relationship to suicide "scientifically illegitimate," saying it would unfairly prejudice jurors ahead of the March 14 trial for a case implicating the drugmaker in a Reed Smith LLP partner's 2010 suicide. 

  4. March 01, 2017

    GSK Says Reed Smith Atty's Job Anxieties Led To Suicide

    GlaxoSmithKline PLC won a ruling Wednesday that will allow it to present a performance review at an upcoming Illinois federal trial the company says demonstrates that the 2010 suicide of a Reed Smith LLP partner was linked to difficulties he was experiencing at the firm and had nothing to do with a generic form of Paxil he was taking at the time.

  5. February 16, 2017

    Atty's Widow Can't Prove GSK Meant To Harm, Judge Says

    The Illinois federal judge overseeing a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the widow of a Reed Smith LLP partner said Thursday her complaint couldn't move forward on its claim that GlaxoSmithKline PLC had intended to harm its customers by failing to warn them about Paxil's ties to suicide.

  6. February 10, 2017

    GSK Moves To Cut Willfulness From Reed Smith Suicide Trial

    GlaxoSmithKline PLC pressed an Illinois federal judge to cut claims of wanton and willful conduct from a case implicating the drugmaker in a former Reed Smith LLP partner's suicide, saying Thursday that GSK had no time to prepare a defense against the last-minute allegations before trial next month.

  7. February 03, 2017

    GSK Refuses Judge's Order In Reed Smith Suicide Trial

    GlaxoSmithKline LLC told an Illinois federal judge Thursday it won't comply with his request that it draft a jury instruction on its liability for a generic version of antidepressant Paxil in a wrongful death suit brought against GSK by the widow of a Reed Smith LLP partner.

  8. December 22, 2016

    Judge Backs Widow's Objection To GSK Trial Documents

    An Illinois federal judge has sustained an objection by the widow of a Reed Smith partner who committed suicide after allegedly taking an antidepressant to the volume of documents drug company GlaxoSmithKline plans to present jurors at trial.

  9. December 16, 2016

    Reed Smith Widow Slams GSK's 'Mountain' Of Trial Exhibits

    Despite an Illinois federal judge's admonishments not to overwhelm a jury in a trial over a Reed Smith partner's suicide after allegedly taking a GlaxoSmithKline antidepressant, his widow on Thursday told the judge that the company is proposing to show the jurors mountains of exhibits.

  10. November 22, 2016

    Expert OK To Testify In GSK Suit By Reed Smith Atty's Widow

    An Illinois federal judge on Monday canceled a pretrial hearing scheduled to vet an expert witness for the widow of a former Reed Smith LLP partner who killed himself allegedly as a result of taking GlaxoSmithKline PLC's antidepressant drug, finding that the expert's past issues had already been settled.

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