BOSTON — In the 1980s, when Northeastern University law professor Richard Daynard began his crusade against the tobacco industry, few in the legal community gave him much of a chance. Since the 1950s, ...

Sept. 20, 2004 — Editor's Note: At the Second Annual Conference on Legal Approaches to the Obesity Epidemic, held from Sept. 17-19 at Northeastern University School of Law in Boston, Massachusetts, ...

Daynard has been fighting big public-health battles for decades. He played a foundational role building landmark legal cases in the 1980s and ’90s against U.S. tobacco companies, which ultimately ...

A key architect of the legal war on Big Tobacco has gone to court against two of the country’s richest and best-known plaintiff lawyers, claiming they reneged on a pledge to cut him in on a fortune in ...

DAYNARD: Maybe we are and maybe we're not, but I don't thinkit has anything to do with the issue on smoking, either secondhandsmoking or active smoking, because of the 46 million Americans whoyou say ...

Baltimore attorney Peter G. Angelos has settled a lawsuit filed by a Boston tobacco litigation expert seeking a share of the $150 million fee Angelos’ law firm earned for handling Maryland’s lawsuit ...