Sentences with phrase «plaintiff class action»

In addition to the Plaintiff Class Action Group being recognized, Chambers and Partners also named Dave Williams and Jonathan Foreman as top ranked lawyers in their fields.

LONDON, ONTARIO — Chambers Canada, announced its official 2018 legal rankings results and once again named Harrison Pensa as one of Canada's top - tier firms in the area of plaintiff class action litigation.

Plaintiff class action lawyers were unable to convince the Divisional Court to grant leave to appeal an earlier decision of the Superior Court of Justice in which Justice van Rensberg significantly reduced the size of the plaintiff class in Silver v. IMAX.

Under his leadership, the Legal 500 has recognized Cohen Milstein as a Leading Plaintiff Class Action Firm for seven years in a row and Law360 selected the Antitrust Practice Group as a Competition Law Practice Group of the Year in 2013 and 2014.

There's likely already (if not it's on the horizon) a beauty contest going on amongst the leading plaintiff class action firms to see who'll scoop the prize.

Counsel in plaintiff class action lawsuits have a tremendous amount of pressure upon their shoulders already, and international litigation only serves to further complicate matters.

Represented a major European airline in negotiating a settlement with the plaintiff class action in the air cargo price fixing litigation pending in the Eastern District of New York

«I have met with a couple of the plaintiff class action firms who are counting the number of sleeps until July 1,» he said.

«I have met with a couple of the plaintiff class action firms who are counting the number of sleeps until July 1,» said Peter Clausi, executive vice president corporate affairs and general counsel at GTA Resources and Mining Inc. «I think they are going to wind up being the Wade Boggs of litigation — they're going to go to the hall of fame hitting singles.»

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

Lascaris is one of Canada's most prominent plaintiff class action lawyers.

It is important for food industry businesses and decision makers to anticipate and understand any newfound tactics of the plaintiff class action bar, and to form a plan of action to respond to these new tactics.

Andy Freeman was named the Best Lawyers 2014 Baltimore Mass Tort Litigation / Plaintiffs Class Actions Lawyer of the Year; ranked Tier 1 for Mass Tort Litigation / Plaintiffs Class Action in the 2017 «Best Law Firms» list.

Not exact matches

CELGENE SHAREHOLDER ALERT: CLAIMSFILER REMINDS INVESTORS WITH LOSSES IN EXCESS OF $ 100,000 of Lead Plaintiff Deadline in Class Action Lawsuit Against Celgene Corporation - CELG

Meanwhile, in 2009 Ontario courts approved the Imax class - action suit and ruled it would be tried as a global class, meaning any investor who bought shares, whether on the TSX or Nasdaq, can be included as a plaintiff.

Won Kim, a Toronto - based class - action plaintiff lawyer, agrees that during a time where the TSX could be merging with LSE, and the NYSE could be swallowed by the Frankfurt stock exchange, a global - class precedent just makes sense.

But south of the border, U.S. regulators could apply a concept called «fraud on the market» — meaning if companies failed to disclose information affecting their stock price, plaintiffs could automatically launch a class - action suit.

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.

The Klein Law Firm Reminds Investors of a Class Action Commenced on Behalf of Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson Shareholders and a Lead Plaintiff Deadline of June 5, 2018

The Klein Law Firm Announces a Class Action Commenced on Behalf of Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson Shareholders and a Lead Plaintiff Deadline of June 5, 2018

On behalf of the players, the Charney Lawyers, a Toronto - based firm specializing in class - action law, is seeking compensation for time logged by the plaintiffs in the major junior league.

If the class - action lawsuit against Honda, Nissan, Toyota and Ford rules in favor of the plaintiffs he notion of making money at all costs will also prove to be catastrophic at these companies.

«In the 50 years since the advent of modern day class action lawsuits, plaintiffs» lawyers have made millions of dollars in fees from these suits while consumers often receive little benefit,» the chamber said in a statement.

The class action suit contends that Microsoft cheated the plaintiffs represented — roughly 8,630 women engineers and IT specialists — out of 518 promotions and between $ 100 million and $ 238 million in pay between 2011 and 2016.

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.

If allowed to proceed as a class action, the 2013 lawsuit could cover more than 160,000 California drivers and give plaintiffs leverage to negotiate a settlement.

The Hearst suit is going less well for the plaintiffs, as a judge has denied them class action status, but is allowing the suit to proceed.

A federal appeals court on Thursday revived a proposed wage - and - hour class action against a Southern California hospital, ruling the plaintiffs could use inadmissible evidence to support their request for class certification.

State regulators, unlike class action plaintiffs, can claim statutory penalties for every violation of state law.

The plaintiffs» racketeering claim was certified as a class action.

[107] This class action lawsuit was filed in 1994 with Selma Buycks - Roberson as lead plaintiff and alleged that Citibank Federal Savings Bank had engaged in practices forbidden under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act and the Fair Housing Act.

In a Nov. 2 decision, Judge Susan Richard Nelson granted a preliminary injunction to Thrivent Financial, accepting plaintiff's claims of irreparable harm if the class - action provisions contained in the DOL rule are permitted to become law.

Based upon this analysis, we provide our clients with recommendations concerning whether they should: (1) move to be appointed lead plaintiff; (2) file an individual non-class action in federal or state court; or (3) take no active role, that is, remain a class member in an action initiated by others.

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.

The class action filing, dated April 5 and submitted to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, lists Arizona resident and BitGrail customer Alex Brola as the lead plaintiff.

In a decision on Friday, U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson in San Francisco said the California plaintiffs may seek damages from Starbucks in their proposed nationwide class action, including for fraud and false advertising.

The plaintiff's law firm, Silver Miller is running this class action lawsuit and the co-founder, David Silver is part of the original lawsuit.

Thrivent Financial for Lutherans became the sixth plaintiff to lob a complaint against the Department of Labor's fiduciary rule when the insurer filed a suit in late September challenging the class - action waiver requirement under the rule's best interest contract exemption, or BICE.

(UPDATED) Lawsuit adds five plaintiffs, seeks class - action status.

NEW ORLEANS, April 20, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE)-- Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC («KSF») and KSF partner, former Attorney General of Louisiana, Charles C. Foti, Jr., remind investors that they have until May 8, 2018 to file lead plaintiff applications in a securities class action lawsuit against Foot Locker, Inc. (NYSE: FL), if they purchased the Company's shares between August 19, 2016 and August 17, 2017, inclusive (the «Class Period&raqclass action lawsuit against Foot Locker, Inc. (NYSE: FL), if they purchased the Company's shares between August 19, 2016 and August 17, 2017, inclusive (the «Class Period&raqClass Period»).

NEW ORLEANS, April 20, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE)-- Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC («KSF») and KSF partner, former Attorney General of Louisiana, Charles C. Foti, Jr., remind investors that they have until May 7, 2018 to file lead plaintiff applications in a securities class action lawsuit against Henry Schein, Inc. (NasdaqGS: HSIC), if they purchased the Company's securities between March 7, 2013 and February 12, 2018, inclusive (the «Class Period&raqclass action lawsuit against Henry Schein, Inc. (NasdaqGS: HSIC), if they purchased the Company's securities between March 7, 2013 and February 12, 2018, inclusive (the «Class Period&raqClass Period»).

NEW ORLEANS, April 20, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE)-- Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC («KSF») and KSF partner, former Attorney General of Louisiana, Charles C. Foti, Jr., remind investors that they have until May 4, 2018 to file lead plaintiff applications in a securities class action lawsuit against Atlas Financial Holdings, Inc. (NasdaqGM: AFH), if they purchased the Company's securities between March 13, 2017, and March 2, 2018, inclusive (the «Class Period&raqclass action lawsuit against Atlas Financial Holdings, Inc. (NasdaqGM: AFH), if they purchased the Company's securities between March 13, 2017, and March 2, 2018, inclusive (the «Class Period&raqClass Period»).

The exploitative tactics of the plaintiff - side lawyers in the food class action space is becoming more pronounced.

Investor advocate, Mark Elliott — who recently won a class action on behalf of investors in Downer EDI — lodged the claim on behalf of investor John Webster, who will act as «lead plaintiff» in the case on behalf of other investors who join the action.

Co-counsel for the plaintiffs are from three law firms with extensive experience in class - action litigation: Trief & Olk, in New York; Higer Lichter & Givner, in Miami; and Cohn Lifland Pearlman Herrmann & Knopf, in New Jersey.

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.

I should also menton that the bar I was at is called «The Mucky Duck,» and it is a good sports dive bar that just so happen's to be th named plaintiff in a enormous class - action lawsuit aganst the NFL.

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.

The class - action lawsuit against the Cemeteries Association of Greater Chicago, which represents the cemeteries, and Westlawn Cemetery, an association member, was filed by the Chicago Rabbinical Council and named one plaintiff, Carole Katz of Chicago.

«After accepting more than $ 100,000 in campaign contributions from plaintiff's attorneys he employs in class action suits — which can be hugely lucrative to those firms — Mr. DiNapoli is using official state business to solicit campaign contributions.