Businesses facing mass torts and multidistrict litigation (MDL) also turn to Dowd Bennett to serve as lead
counsel in cases consolidated in federal court, as well as parallel actions in various state courts.
Serving as court - appointed coordinating defense
counsel in a number of asbestos
cases consolidated in a special asbestos docket
in Jefferson County, Alabama.
For example, Mr. Klamann was lead
counsel in a commodities churning
case which was tried to a $ 700,000 punitive damages verdict, a securities fraud
case which produced a seven - figure confession of judgment involving a Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT), a successful
consolidated case of more than 140 plaintiff investors
in varying combinations of six commercial real estate syndications, several individual securities churning
cases, a fraudulent energy conservation limited partnership of 75 investor / plaintiffs, a successful
consolidated case involving 124 investors
in forty diverse limited partnerships, and a successful
case involving scores of investor / plaintiffs
in a series of fraudulent oil and gas limited partnerships.
Serve as lead trial
counsel in consolidated proceedings involving more than 13,000 individual lawsuits related to client's medical device, including
cases consolidated in federal court by the JPML and parallel actions
in multiple state courts across the country.