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Janet, Jenner & Suggs expanding practice to include business-to-business litigation. “We are frequently tangling with major corporations, whether it’s in the health care industry [or] the pharmaceutical industry,” said Howard Janet, adding that this has provided the firm with “a lot of experience and expertise in going up against formidable opponents.” Kenneth M. Suggs, this year’s president of the American Association for Justice, will head the business litigation practice, the firm announced. The new practice will take on contract and bidding disputes as well as fraud, among other things. And Janet said that businesses will realize many advantages in hiring a “plaintiff firm to represent them.”

“Lawsuits are ordinary Americans’ last resort” Ken Suggs takes The Examiner (Washington) to task for its “frivolous argument” linking the war on terrorism, American values and lawsuits. In his opinion piece, Mr. Suggs says: “The Examiner has a frivolous argument when it somehow manages to work the war on terrorism into a screed against lawsuits and the civil justice system. The civil justice system is the embodiment of American values such as responsibility, fairness and a level playing field… it is also the last resort for ordinary Americans to hold corporate CEOs accountable when they put profits before human life.”