Sentences with phrase «large plaintiff class»

Does your firm handle large plaintiff class - actions and collect a high volume of personally identifiable information from participants in these cases?

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David Sanford, chairman of Sanford Heisler Sharp, the law firm that argued the largest - ever employment gender discrimination case to go to trial — a class action suit against Novartis Pharmaceuticals that resulted in a $ 253 million jury award for plaintiffs in 2010, reduced post-trial to $ 175 million — noted that in that case, the company had just three investigators for a workforce of thousands.

Wagner: Cohen Milstein has obviously attempted to construct the broadest possible group of Intel employees as participants in the plaintiff class in order to ensure a large damages award.

This is not only the largest securities class action settlement in a decade, but is the largest settlement ever in a class action involving a foreign issuer, the fifth - largest class action settlement ever achieved in the United States, and the largest settlement achieved by a foreign lead plaintiff.

Technically, the lawsuit filed is a «collective action,» which by and large resembles a «class action» lawsuit with the exception that in collective actions, plaintiffs must «opt in» to join the lawsuit, while in a class action, they must opt out if they don't wish to be included.

Product liability litigation is often the preserve of plaintiff class action lawyers and large Bay Street defence firms, not Main Street law firms.

Professor Brickman argues that the BP suit is representative of a larger trend in American class action litigation whereby the plaintiffs» lawyers are hired on a contingency fee basis and end up reaping enormous sums from the settlement.

The Superior Court of the district of Montreal has authorized the bringing of what the plaintiff's lawyer says could be the largest environmental class action in Canadian history.

In the case of large corporations doing business nationwide, this usually meant that a plaintiff had a large number of states to choose from in which a defendant could be sued on any matter whatsoever which also facilitated the filing of class action lawsuits with plaintiffs from all over the world covered by a single lawsuit.

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.

In addition, Keesal, Young & Logan was part of the defense team that was responsible for obtaining the largest sanctions award against a purported class action plaintiff and his counsel that, at the time, had been upheld on appeal.

Secondly, Justice Perell found that a class action was not the preferable procedure for the action and not necessary to do justice to the parties, largely due to the fact that the total $ 3 million value of the ten largest plaintiffs» claims made it economical for those plaintiffs to proceed together in a normal action.

After graduating near the top of his class from Howard University School of Law, in Washington, D.C., Montevideo went on to work for the largest business and litigation firm in South Carolina, followed by experience at two prominent Los Angeles and Orange County plaintiffs trial firms, along with a stint in public service via the government sector through working with the Department of Justice in their Environmental and Natural Resources Division; Environmental Enforcement Section.

The industry subsequently expanded to fund class actions and large single plaintiff actions as successive superior court judgments overturned common law principles against maintenance and champerty, imported from UK common law.

Our team at Fleming Nolen Jez, L.L.P. applies the knowledge and experience we have gained from years of representing plaintiffs in mass and class actions to manage large and complex commercial litigation matters.

«Despite facing significant factual and legal hurdles, Lead Plaintiff's Counsel were ultimately successful in negotiating a large settlement [valued at $ 200 million] on behalf of the Class Members.»

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.

A class action is a form of civil action where one or a few plaintiffs can sue a defendant or a number of defendants on behalf of a larger group of people who claim the same type of loss from the same defendant of group of defendants.

For plaintiffs, class actions are seen as a tool to increase access to justice, as the costs of litigation are shared among a larger group, and the downside risk is limited as costs in unsuccessful cases are often underwritten by the plaintiffs» law firm or a third party fund.

This would make it resemble a kind of class action suit, with the plaintiff suing a large number of defendants, all with substantially identical facts being considered.

Class actions are lawsuits where one or several plaintiffs represent a larger group who suffer similar damages against a shared responsible party.

In 2016, she led a team that successfully defended one of the largest mass tort / wrongful death cases in the United States, which included 12,000 cases (some of them class actions representing hundreds of individual plaintiffs).

He acts as the representative plaintiff in a $ 1.75 billion class action against the Government of Canada, the Canadian Wheat Board and Canada's two largest railway companies CN and CP, alleging that 100,000 Western grain growers were overcharged for grain transportation for a quarter century.

Opt - out regimes are generally considered to be more plaintiff - friendly, in that they involve larger classes and thus larger potential claims against defendants.