Plaintiff's Attorney Mark Lanier captivated the courtroom yesterday in closing argument on the Cona case.
Lanier presented his 70-minute closing statement to the jury in the form of a TV series he called 'Desperate Executives' - a takeon the popular series "Desperate Housewives." Lanier's fictional series consisted of four episodes: "Shoot for the Moon"; "Trouble in Paradise"; "The Cover Up"; and "Game Over."
The story, Lanier said, began with the desire to make money from Vioxx, progressed through a series of evasions and denials that the drug caused heart attacks, and ended with Vioxx being criticized by a number of scientific reports.
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