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>> NATIONS: Your natural inclination may be when you have a transvaginal mesh or any other type of litigation, may be to go to your local lawyer.
There is a very good reason why your local lawyer may not be able to handle this type of litigation. First of all, this is part of multi-district
litigation. And when you have cases like this where there are literally tens of thousands of cases, tens of thousands of people who have the same
claims against the same defendants for the same reason, the courts have devised a system where all of those cases are taken together and they are
moved into the same lawsuit, and they are put in front of one judge, and a panel of attorneys handle the cases for all the plaintiffs. And your local
lawyer will not be able to handle that type of litigation. If he files the case locally in your state court, it will be removed to the multi-district
litigation. In the case of transvaginal mesh it will be moved to West Virginia. So your local lawyer will be completely lost if he's not privy to
and experienced in handling multi-district litigation. He will have to find a lawyer to refer it to who is involved in multi-district litigation
because if he goes into West Virginia and tries to handle your case there, he will be completely lost and the people who get the attention when you
get into litigation like this - the people who get the attention from the defense lawyers and from the defendants will be those people who have
hundreds of cases and thousands of cases. Not the people who have one case.
>> TALLON: We work with local attorneys day-to-day that refer all those cases to us once they realize what is going on on a day-to-day basis and what is
entailed in the mass tort arena.
NATIONS: In mass torts, more than in any other type of litigation, there is strength in numbers. The more cases you have, the more clients you
represent, the more you are paid attention to by the opposing counsel and by the pharmaceutical companies.