Sentences with phrase «head of the class action»

Brooks, previously a partner and head of the Class Action Practice in Jackson Lewis LLP's San Francisco office, brings extensive class action litigation experience to the firm.

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All of that comes on top of more than 500 class actions filed on behalf of owners and lessors of Volkswagen diesel cars — an unprecedented number, according to Elizabeth Cabraser, a leading mass - disaster plaintiffs attorney who is heading a 22 - lawyer steering committee trying to bring order to the sprawling mess.

Worse, the lack of direction frequently led to pitched battles between Burger King's Miami head office and individual franchisees — an uncomfortable parallel with Tim Hortons» own fights with its franchisees — including a class action lawsuit brought by franchisees over a $ 1 double cheeseburger.

Reed got the flag, as you might expect, as this is the type of hit the NFL would like to make disappear amid widespread concerns and a class action lawsuit over head injuries.

Publication of the editorial came on the same day as two other events of note, first, the release of a new book, Back in the Game, in which sports neurologist Jeffrey Kutcher and award - winning journalist Joanne Gerstner repeatedly and pointedly criticize the media for «irresponsible» reporting on CTE, and second, the filing of a class action lawsuit in federal court in Los Angeles against Pop Warner, USA Football, and the National Operating Committee on Standards For Athletic Equipment (NOCSAE) which assumes as scientific fact that repetitive head impacts sustained in youth football «exposed» plaintiffs» sons to CTE, and led one to engage in «erratic and reckless behavior» resulting in his untimely death, and the other to take his own life.

Retired players Dave Christian, Reed Larson and William Bennett filed a class action lawsuit in federal court on Tuesday alleging that the league has promoted fighting and downplayed the risk of head injuries that come from it.

The state University at Albany and its athletic director, Mark Benson, are being sued in a federal class action for violations of Title IX by four former women's tennis players and former head women's tennis coach Gordon Graham.

President Barack Obama's «Early Learning Days of Action» initiative was highlighted in New York last week as Congressman Paul Tonko read to 16 children enrolled in what's called «The Butterfly Class» at Albany Head Start.

NY POST - Feb 8 - Melissa Midwest, recently replaced part - time model Yuliana Avalos in heading a class - action suit accusing Match.com of posting fake dating profiles to attract paying members.

Transformers: War for Cybertron takes players to the final moments of the grand civil war that will determine the survival of the entire Transformers race. Fans will be able to explore the Transformers war - ravaged home planet in full 3D environments for the first time, armed with a diverse arsenal of high - tech weaponry and the ability to convert instantly from robot to vehicle form at any time as they engage in heart - pounding battles on land and in the air in this gripping, third - person action shooter. Complete with several multiplayer modes,  Transformers: War for Cybertron allows gamers to play through story missions with their friends in drop in / drop out online co-op, and also create their own Transformers character for competitive head - to - head multiplayer modes, choosing among four distinct character classes, personalizing their characterâ $ ™ s look and selecting from a huge variety of weapons, skills and abilities. Additionally, the game introduces Escalation, a four - player online co-op mode that allows gamers to fight together as their favorite Autobots or Decepticons against increasing waves of enemies utilizing strong teamwork to survive.

Coming up against the church «s stonewalling, documents that have been made unavailable or have strangely disappeared, and a sleazy attorney in the D.A «s office (Billy Crudup, «Public Enemies»), the team reaches out to Phil Saviano (Neal Huff, «The Grand Budapest Hotel») who heads an organization dedicated to supporting abuse victims as well as attorney Mitchell Garabedian (Stanley Tucci, «Transformers: Age of Extinction») who represents victims that are suing the church in a class - action lawsuit and is an important source of information.

Next up, Touring Car classes head to Utah Motorsports Campus, for a full Pirelli World Challenge multi-class weekend of competition in an action - packed weekend scheduled for August.

Genre: Action, Adventure, Supernatural Author: Kazuki Takahashi Synopsis: Sitting by himself in the back of the class, 10th - grader Yugi always had his head in some game — until he solved the Millennium Puzzle, an Egyptian artifact containing a powerful spirit from the age of the pharoahs!

Following the announcement last week that three authors have filed a class action lawsuit in California and New York against the vanity press for its business practices, Penguin announced that it was making some changes to the Author Solutions structure by replacing current CEO Kevin Weiss with Andrew Phillips, Penguin's head of Penguin International.

Eight action - packed adventures span X's journey from a B - Class novice Maverick Hunter to an S - Class pro, with the addition of the cool and collected Zero and the hot - headed Axl as playable characters in later entries.

Imageepoch's charismatic president Ryoei Mikage, who also heads one of the studio's four teams, talked with us a about his studio's rapid growth and console plans — and hints at a possible «million [selling]- class» action RPG targeting Western audiences:

According to Minor's class - action suit, he started to build a collection of American art early this year, relying on advice from Dara Mitchell, head of Sotheby's American paintings department.

Many continental European attorneys had been in the practice of using class headings and would have needed to take action to amend their clients» registrations.

Earlier this year, a federal judge approved the settlement of that lawsuit as a class action — awarding damages to all NFL players with diagnosed head injuries.

In the consumer class action sector, Alberstone is currently lead or co-lead counsel in several notable cases, including Payne v. Bank of America, N.A., et al., involving manipulation of the LIBOR U.S. Dollar rate, Bias et al. v. Wells Fargo & Company, et al., concerning illegal mark - ups of default related fees, Ellis v. JP Morgan Chase, et al., Stitt v. Citibank, et al. and Vega v. Ocwen Financial Corporation, et al., concerning unlawful charging of unnecessary default fees, Waldrup v. Countrywide Financial Corporation, et al., concerning illegal charging for fraudulent appraisals, Weiner v. Ocwen Financial Corporation, et al., involving illegal assessment of default - related service fees that contained undisclosed mark - ups, and Ono v. Head Racquet Sports USA, concerning false advertising of Head tennis racquets.

Sumner, a partner in the US firm's Atlanta office, is head of the data security and privacy practice at the firm and has represented Equifax in other class actions.

Before joining the firm, Damian was a Principal at the largest Australian plaintiff's class action firm and head of its Queensland class actions practice.

He has been involved in heading a number of prominent class actions including: a class action against the operators of Wivenhoe and Somerset Dam in relation to the January 2011, flooding of thousands of homes and businesses in South - East Queensland.

You know the story: precocious toddler, argumentative adolescent, decent head on my shoulders... What I didn't know is that I would stop practicing, build a prosperous legal services company and consult on some of the largest and most complex class action cases in U.S. history.

Prior to joining LeClairRyan, Gray held several senior in - house legal positions at financial institutions, including head of litigation at OneWest Bank N.A. (n / k / a CIT Bank, N.A.) and assistant general counsel of litigation at JPMorgan Chase, where she managed consumer finance class actions.

They were then joined in 2014 by Beau Deleuil, former worldwide head of litigation at King & Wood Mallesons and in 2015 by Damian Scattini, who was a Principal at the largest Australian plaintiff's class action firm and head of its Queensland class actions practice.

Seeking hundreds of millions of dollars in damages, plaintiffs filed a putative class action alleging that Boeing Company, along with its CEO and the head of its commercial aircraft division, committed securities fraud in violation of federal law.

Ted Charney is a senior partner at Charney Lawyers where he is the head of the firm's personal injury, class action, and insurance defence practice groups.

Markus Kremer is a partner in BLG's Commercial Litigation Group and the Toronto Head of the firm's Class Actions Group.

See how the parts and pieces of the Class of 2014 match up We've had a look at the big four of 2014 all side - by - side and looking pretty, but we know that plenty of us also want to see some heads - up action of the specifications.

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