{"id":2606,"date":"2019-09-18T18:48:23","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T22:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:10028\/whitepapers\/hunter-shkolnik-quoted-on-purdue-bankruptcys-filing\/"},"modified":"2022-06-27T02:31:43","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T06:31:43","slug":"hunter-shkolnik-quoted-on-purdue-bankruptcys-filing","status":"publish","type":"whitepapers","link":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/whitepapers\/hunter-shkolnik-quoted-on-purdue-bankruptcys-filing\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunter Shkolnik Quoted on Purdue Bankruptcy&#8217;s Filing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Purdue Pharma\u2019s bankruptcy filing Sunday night may not dramatically affect Summit County\u2019s ongoing lawsuit against Big Pharma,<br \/>\nattorneys said. The county has engaged outside law firms to try the case, and lead counsel Hunter Shkolnik of New York-based Napoli Shkolnik, PLLC, said they\u2019d known this was coming for a while.<\/p>\n<p>Shkolnik said Purdue Pharma was just one player in a very large case. \u201cThe litigation\u2019s not ending, not at all,\u201d Shkolnik said. \u201cIn less than four weeks I am one of the lead trial attorneys in the first (multidistrict litigation) mass trial against the other defendants \u2014 the big distributors, the big chain pharmacies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPurdue started a fire,\u201d Shkolnik said. \u201cThe distributors \u2013 such as McKesson, AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health (and) Walgreens \u2013<br \/>\npoured gasoline on it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Purdue Pharma\u2019s bankruptcy filing Sunday night may not dramatically affect Summit County\u2019s ongoing lawsuit against Big Pharma, attorneys said. The county has engaged outside law firms to try the case,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"menu_order":277,"template":"","whitepaper_category":[254,57,75,98,204,253],"whitepaper-source":[207],"class_list":["post-2606","whitepapers","type-whitepapers","status-publish","hentry","whitepaper_category-opioid-epidemic","whitepaper_category-hunter-shkolnik","whitepaper_category-opioids-litigation","whitepaper_category-ohio-opioid-lawyers","whitepaper_category-utah-opioid-lawyers","whitepaper_category-opioid-crisis","whitepaper-source-park-record"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepapers\/2606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepapers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/whitepapers"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepapers\/2606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"whitepaper_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepaper_category?post=2606"},{"taxonomy":"whitepaper-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepaper-source?post=2606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}