Polster’s best motivational tool has been a firm trial date: Oct. 21, when opening arguments are scheduled to begin on the 18th floor of the federal courthouse near the banks of the Cuyahoga River.

Last December, with those trials on the horizon, the company's lawyers at Alston & Bird moved to oust Motley Rice from the entire consolidated litigation before Polster, asserting that the firm ...

News Judge Polster Upholds First Jury Verdict Over Opioid Crisis In a pair of orders on Monday, U.S. District Judge Dan Polster, among other findings, upheld his decision to excuse three ...

The MDL judge, U.S. District Judge Dan Polster of Cleveland, said the assessment was the only way to assure that every plaintiff to have benefited from the arduous work of MDL lead counsel ...