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Christopher A. Seeger
Mass Torts & Multidistrict Litigation
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Michelle R. DiSilvestro
Romanucci & Blandin, LLC
Office: Chicago, Illinois
Civil Rights & Catastrophic Injury
A police van ran a red light after repeated orders to slow down. DiSilvestro worked on Verona Gunn’s family’s case, which ended in a $4.93 million jury award.
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Eric J. Belfi
Labaton Keller Sucharow LLP
Office: New York, New York
Securities Fraud Litigation & Corporate Governance
The Guess shareholder case ended with $30 million for the company and rules governing Paul Marciano’s conduct. Belfi took part in the negotiations behind that settlement.
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Rafey S. Balabanian
Edelson PC
Office: San Francisco, California
privacy litigation & tracking technology
Rafey S. Balabanian handles privacy, biometric, TCPA, consumer-protection, and class-action litigation at Edelson PC.
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Kimberly A. Justice
Justice Jagher London & Millen LLC
Office: Conshohocken, Pennsylvania
Antitrust Class Actions
Former cartel prosecutor in the Morgan Crucible obstruction trial; class counsel for RAV4 owners whose suit drove Toyota’s recall of 1.85 million vehicles.
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Peter Mougey
Levin Papantonio
Office: Pensacola, Florida
FINRA Arbitration & Individual Investor Claims
An all-public FINRA panel heard thirty-five sessions before awarding nearly $15 million to the Moyett claimants. Mougey represented them with Michael Bixby and Page Poerschke.
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Garo Mardirossian
Mardirossian Akaragian LLP
Office: Los Angeles, California
Police Misconduct & Catastrophic Injury
Mardirossian brought jurors to a scale model of a dangerous intersection. A hidden roadway sightline became visible, and a $35 million verdict followed.
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PFAS & Mass Torts
The PFAS water cases
Michael A. London
Michael A. London, co-lead counsel in the AFFF firefighting-foam MDL, is class counsel for public water systems in settlements with 3M, DuPont, Tyco and BASF.
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Jay W. Eisenhofer
Grant & Eisenhofer P.A.
Office: New York, New York
Shareholder Litigation & Corporate Governance
AIG sought to keep a shareholder proposal off its proxy ballot. Eisenhofer argued the appeal that let investors vote on a procedure for future director nominations.
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Linda D. Friedman
Stowell & Friedman, Ltd.
Office: Chicago, Illinois
Employment discrimination & Civil rights
Friedman challenged how Merrill Lynch distributed accounts and formed adviser teams. The race-discrimination case reached a $160 million settlement and changed workplace practices.
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Diandra “Fu” Debrosse represents Glenn Foster Jr.’s widow over his Pickens County jail death and co-leads the national preterm infant-formula NEC litigation.
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Michael T. Pfau
Pfau Cochran Vertetis Amala PLLC
Office: Seattle, Washington
Survivor Accountability & Trial Practice
Backpage claimed immunity from claims brought by three girls trafficked through its advertisements. Pfau and his co-counsel carried their case past that defense to the Washington Supreme Court.
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Brian J. McKeen
McKeen & Associates, P.C.
Office: Detroit, Michigan
Medical Negligence & Birth Trauma
Detroit lawyer Brian J. McKeen fought for depositions in Sophie Rassey’s death at Beaumont and tried the first cases over Yasser Awaad’s epilepsy diagnoses.
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N. Kirkland Pope helped try the first Wright Conserve hip bellwether, upheld on appeal, and was appointed co-lead counsel in the Profemur and Exactech MDLs.
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Julia Kaye
American Civil Liberties Union
Office: New York, New York
Reproductive Rights & Health Care Access
Julia Kaye challenges abortion bans and restrictions on reproductive health care. Her cases have expanded medication access and challenged limits on nurse practitioners and midwives.
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Gregory V. Varallo
Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP
Office: Wilmington, Delaware
Shareholder Litigation & Corporate Governance
Gregory V. Varallo prosecutes shareholder cases in Delaware, with a trial and appellate record spanning Tesla, Mindbody, and the Williams poison-pill challenge.
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William Kirtley
Aceris Law LLC
Office: Geneva, Switzerland
International Arbitration & Investor–State Claims
A ventilator order went undelivered during the pandemic. Kirtley’s firm represented the Maldives in arbitration that ordered repayment, damages, interest and costs.
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Donald M. Doherty Jr.
Law Office of Donald M. Doherty Jr.
Office: West Berlin, New Jersey
Public Records & Transparency Litigation
Government business had moved into school-board members’ personal inboxes. Doherty carried the records requester’s case to a unanimous New Jersey Supreme Court ruling requiring a search.
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Colleen Durkin Peterson
Friedman Rubin PLLP
Office: Seattle, Washington
PCB Exposure & School Contamination
Colleen Durkin Peterson tries PCB-exposure and catastrophic-injury cases, including the Sky Valley school litigation in Washington.
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Khaldoun A. Baghdadi
Walkup, Melodia, Kelly & Schoenberger
Office: San Francisco, California
Product Liability & Wrongful Death
Khaldoun Baghdadi was on the trial team in Kransky v. DePuy, the first ASR hip case to reach a jury, and court-appointed liaison counsel in the PG&E fire cases.
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Suzanne E. Durrell
Whistleblower Law Collaborative
Office: Boston, Massachusetts
Health Care Fraud & Pharmaceutical Whistleblowers
Five whistleblower cases helped expose dialysis-company billing and referral practices. Durrell was the government’s lead civil attorney in the $486 million Fresenius resolution.
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Ricardo M. Martinez-Cid
Podhurst Orseck, P.A.
Office: Coral Gables, Florida
Aviation & Product Liability
Ricardo M. Martinez-Cid tried Johnson v. Continental Motors to a $5 million verdict over a Cessna 421 engine damper and led Surfside’s wrongful-death subclass.
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Robin L. Greenwald
Weitz & Luxenberg P.C.
Office: New York, New York
Environmental Litigation & Toxic Exposure
The illness may appear years after the exposure. Greenwald helped negotiate the Deepwater Horizon medical settlement, including a route for qualifying people whose conditions emerged later.
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Rachel Geman
Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP
Office: New York, New York
AI copyright litigation & financial privacy
The question was how Anthropic obtained the books. Geman served as co-lead class counsel for authors in the copyright case that reached a $1.5 billion settlement.
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Dan Stormer represented Burmese villagers against Unocal over forced labor on the Yadana pipeline and litigates civil rights cases from Pasadena.
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