Sentences with phrase «plaintiff class action firms»

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.

«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.»

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

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.

«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.

July 14, 2017 — / PR NEWSWIRE / - Ruby Corp. and Ruby Life Inc. (ruby), and a proposed class of plaintiffs, co-led by Dowd & Dowd, P.C., The Driscoll Firm, P.C., and Heninger Garrison Davis, LLC, have reached a proposed settlement agreement resolving the class action lawsuits that were filed beginning July 2015 following a data breach of ruby's computer network and subsequent release of certain personal information of customers of Ashley Madison, an online dating website owned and operated by Ruby Life Inc. (formerly Avid Dating Life Inc.) The lawsuits, alleging inadequate data security practices and misrepresentations regarding Ashley Madison, have been consolidated in a multi-district litigation pending in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri.

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer BewareIn April, the law firm of Giskan Solotaroff Anderson & Stewart filed a class action lawsuit against Author Solutions Inc. and its parent, Penguin Group, on behalf of three plaintiffs, alleging breach of c... -LSB-...]

Class - action law firm Hagens Berman's seeking more plaintiffs for its lawsuit against Apple and five publishers over illegal ebook price - fixing.

Saskatchewan law firm McKercher LLP had been acting for CN on various matters for almost a decade, when in 2008, representative plaintiff Gordon Wallace approached the firm to commence the multi-billion-dollar class action.

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

People familiar with the long - running investigation of whether the class action firm paid kickbacks to lead plaintiffs said the Milberg lawyers and L.A. federal prosecutors remained far apart on a deferred - prosecution agreement that's been discussed for months.

He is the leader of Siskinds» securities class actions team which, in 2010, recovered more settlement money for plaintiffs in securities class actions than any other law firm in Canada.

«This is a unique settlement for a very unique situation affecting a specific group of individuals,» says Sabrina Lombardi of McKenzie Lake Lawyers in London, Ont., who along with colleague Michael Peerless and Manitoba firm Troniak Law represented the plaintiffs in the class action.

An Ontario Superior Court justice has found that the class action lawsuit brought against Deloitte LLP by lawyers who had reviewed documents for the firm constituted a success for the plaintiff class, and he has granted the representative plaintiff for the class a cost award.

Our firm has handled class action law suits involving plaintiffs numbering in the thousands.

It is widely anticipated that the number of class actions brought around the world will continue to grow, driven by the globalisation of litigation funders and the increasing appetite from funders and plaintiff law firms to develop new claims outside shareholder class actions.

U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers ranked Brown, Goldstein & Levy Tier 1 Baltimore and Tier 2 Nationally for Mass Tort Litigation / Class Action — Plaintiffs in the 2018 «Best Law Firms» list.

Many of those transnational lawsuits have been filed in the U.S. by plaintiffs» class action firms, public interest attorneys and non-governmental organizations.

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.

Stephen A. LeClainche, Of Counsel at the firm, was selected for inclusion in the fields of Product Liability Litigation, Personal Injury Litigation and Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions for the Plaintiffs practice.

Leslie M. Kroeger, a Partner at the firm, was selected for inclusion in the fields of Product Liability Litigation and Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions for the Plaintiffs practice.

National plaintiffs firm Cohen Milstein — which opened an office in Raleigh earlier this year — is representing plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit against Rooms to Go North Carolina Corp..

The current process for multi-jurisdictional class action lawsuits lacks inter-provincial co-ordination, effective case management and creates delays and wastes judicial resources, say lawyers with three Ontario firms that act for plaintiffs.

Many of its files will be familiar to regular readers of the national media, and include the $ 9 - billion Sino - Forest Corp. shareholder class action claim; an application against Rogers Communications Inc. and Chatr Wireless Inc. involving a constitutional challenge to the Competition Act; and a case concerning oil pollution in the Amazon in which the firm acted for Ecuadoran plaintiffs.

In addition to plaintiffs» work, firms are also finding clients on the defense side — manufacturers, suppliers, builders and contractors who are the likely targets of class actions.

Notable mandates: Represent the plaintiffs in a proposed class action against provincial law enforcement agencies regarding allegedly negligent use of breathalyzer machines; acts for hundreds of pre-sale contract holders with various condominium developments who are disputing their requirement to close under consumer protection laws; defended a law firm in a four - week hearing over enforcement of a significant contingency fee agreement; acted for a number of clients in online defamation cases

Slater & Gordon is unusual though in that it is essentially a plaintiff personal injury firm as well as class action lawyers and as such deep pockets are needed to fund this type of litigation and the business model they adopt is well suited to this type of litigation.

A respondent remarked: «This firm has a real diversity in the areas of litigation practice — defence and plaintiffs» work, insurance work, class actions, group actions, individual actions, traditional personal injury and civil sexual assault, and a commitment to advancing women litigators within its ranks.»

Our firm handles both class actions and private lawsuits on behalf of plaintiffs (victims) injured from defective or dangerous medical devices and implants.

Prior to joining Williams Montgomery & John, he practiced for four years at another Chicago - based civil litigation firm where he represented real property developers, motor vehicle dealers, lending companies, food manufacturers and family owned businesses as both plaintiff and defendant in commercial litigation matters involving breach of contract, fraud and disputes under the Uniform Commercial Code, and defended his clients in consumer class action litigation.

Notable mandates: The firm is currently co-representing the plaintiffs in a long - standing class action in Quebec brought against the three major Canadian tobacco manufacturers.

For example, a Seattle law firm recently generated controversy when its outside public - relations consultant posted a message to Twitter seeking putative plaintiffs for a possible class action suit.

These law firms were a reaction to the rise in Plaintiff's law firms retooled to gather the technical information and expertise (often gathered by government agencies and burgeoning universities fueled by GI Bill enrollment) that was needed to prosecute product liability cases and mass torts and to manage massive amounts of discovery and class action lawsuit in this complex litigation.

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.

Class Actions: Robb is also Co-Chair of the Firm's Class Action Practice and has successfully defended, among others, several consumer fraud and securities class actions in some of the nation's most plaintiff - friendly jurisdictClass Actions: Robb is also Co-Chair of the Firm's Class Action Practice and has successfully defended, among others, several consumer fraud and securities class actions in some of the nation's most plaintiff - friendly jurisdiActions: Robb is also Co-Chair of the Firm's Class Action Practice and has successfully defended, among others, several consumer fraud and securities class actions in some of the nation's most plaintiff - friendly jurisdictClass Action Practice and has successfully defended, among others, several consumer fraud and securities class actions in some of the nation's most plaintiff - friendly jurisdictclass actions in some of the nation's most plaintiff - friendly jurisdiactions in some of the nation's most plaintiff - friendly jurisdictions.

The Los Angeles - based Law Offices of Lisa L. Maki is a nationally recognized litigation firm with Los Angeles employment attorneys focused on offering confidential legal guidance and dedicated representation in plaintiff, complex business and personal injury litigation, employment law, class action, wage and hour, discrimination and harassment, and unfair business practices claims.

ILS serves the community of plaintiffs» firms who are engaged in class action and MDL cases as their outsourced eDiscovery «SWAT» unit.

TORONTO, Aug. 13 / CNW / — This is to announce that today the law firms of Stevenson LLP and Bogoroch & Associates have been instructed to commence a class action on behalf of the representative plaintiffs, Giuseppina Santoro and Gianfrano (John) Santoro for damages sustained by the residents, homeowners and business persons as a result of the explosions which took place on Sunday, August 10, 2008 at the premises of Sunrise Propane Energy Group Inc..

As this story from the San Jose Mercury News and multiple others report, class action lawyer William Lerach, formerly a partner in the indicted class action law firm Milberg Weiss, struck a plea agreement to pay $ 7.75 million for his involvement in a class action kickback scheme by which Lerach made undisclosed payments to class action plaintiffs in exchange for signing them up for representation.

What's interesting about the Johnny Boy ad is that it is an evolution of legal advertising and an example of an ad campaign designed to overcome a specific hurdle facing a practice area, which is how do plaintiff law firms find people who are entitled to share in the spoils of the firm's investment in a class action?

Prior to joining Baron & Budd, Mr. Mann worked at a plaintiff's firm in San Francisco where he represented clients in a number of consumer fraud, employment, and data privacy class actions as well as pharmaceutical mass torts.

Stephen E. Goldman, the firm's managing partner, has served as counsel for insurers in many significant property insurance and class action cases, including Standard Fire v. Knowles, 133 S. Ct. 1345 (2013)(holding that the plaintiff's stipulation can not defeat federal jurisdiction under the Class Action Fairness Act) and Travco v. Ward, 736 S.E. 2d 321 (Va. 2012)(affirming the trial court's judgment that property insurance policies do not cover losses caused by the presence of Chinese drywclass action cases, including Standard Fire v. Knowles, 133 S. Ct. 1345 (2013)(holding that the plaintiff's stipulation can not defeat federal jurisdiction under the Class Action Fairness Act) and Travco v. Ward, 736 S.E. 2d 321 (Va. 2012)(affirming the trial court's judgment that property insurance policies do not cover losses caused by the presence of Chinese dryaction cases, including Standard Fire v. Knowles, 133 S. Ct. 1345 (2013)(holding that the plaintiff's stipulation can not defeat federal jurisdiction under the Class Action Fairness Act) and Travco v. Ward, 736 S.E. 2d 321 (Va. 2012)(affirming the trial court's judgment that property insurance policies do not cover losses caused by the presence of Chinese drywClass Action Fairness Act) and Travco v. Ward, 736 S.E. 2d 321 (Va. 2012)(affirming the trial court's judgment that property insurance policies do not cover losses caused by the presence of Chinese dryAction Fairness Act) and Travco v. Ward, 736 S.E. 2d 321 (Va. 2012)(affirming the trial court's judgment that property insurance policies do not cover losses caused by the presence of Chinese drywall).

The firm firm was recognized as Best Lawyers ® «Best Law Firms» by U.S. News & World Report and received the prestigious Tier One ranking for San Diego in the in the categories of Commercial Litigation; Litigation — Construction; Litigation — Real Estate; Mass Torts Litigation / Class Actions; Personal Injury Litigation — Plaintiffs and Product Liability Litigation — Plaintiffs.

Additionally, law firms may be involved in robust marketing campaigns to amass plaintiffs to a class - action lawsuit.