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In this regular feature, Bulletproof interviews top plaintiffs’ counsel for their perspective on the crises likely to affect businesses in the near future. Today, we speak to Erika Kelton, a partner at Phillips & Cohen LLP in Washington, DC, which specializes in representing whistleblowers in qui tam lawsuits. We spoke to Ms. Kelton about the highly significant but relatively untouted new award program for whistleblowers contained in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, ... READ MORE

In a recent article published by The Government Contractor, David M. Nadler and David Yang of Dickstein Shapiro LLP discuss a recent decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit that could lead to significant increases in government contractor liability under the False Claims Act (FCA). The ruling handed down in U.S. ex rel. Miller v. Bill Harbert Int’l Constr., Inc. is focused on the question of whether retroactivity provisions within the Fraud ... READ MORE

In this regular feature, Bulletproof interviews top plaintiffs’ counsel for their perspective on the crises likely to affect businesses in the near future. Today, we speak to William J. Geller, a lawyer at Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C in New York, who is representing a group of 15 buyers at the Trump SoHo Hotel Condominium in Manhattan. The lawsuit, filed in Federal District Court in Manhattan on August 2, claims that, in both sales pitches and statements ... READ MORE

In this regular feature, Bulletproof interviews top plaintiffs’ counsel for their perspective on the crises likely to affect businesses in the near future. Today, we speak to Richard Myers of Philadelphia’s Paul, Reich & Myers, P.C., who for the past nine years has litigated Summers v. Certainteed Corp. and Nybeck v. Union Carbide Corp., an asbestos case that will likely have major repercussions for most other business sectors as well, especially in Pennsylvania. In July, the ... READ MORE

In this regular feature, Bulletproof interviews top plaintiffs’ counsel for their perspective on the crises likely to affect businesses in the near future. Today, we speak to Geoffrey Damon of Butkovich & Crosthwaite Co. LPA in Cincinnati, who is seeking to file a class action against Ford Motor Co. and the United Auto Workers on behalf of 80 union workers. The workers lost their seniority rights after they were recalled to work at a Ford ... READ MORE

In this regular feature, Bulletproof interviews top plaintiffs’ counsel for their perspective on the crises likely to affect businesses in the near future. Today, we speak to Stephen Gardner, litigation director for the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), which has advised McDonald’s restaurants of its intent to file suit against the fast food giant unless it removes promotional toys from its meal packages. An advisory letter is legally required in several states ... READ MORE

Do toys make kids fat? That’s what a public health watchdog group would have you believe. This week, the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) sent a letter to McDonald’s calling on the fast food giant to remove toys from all packaged meals or face the prospect of litigation. According to the CSPI, the toys included in McDonald’s Happy Meals encourage kids to eat fast food and, thus, are a contributing factor to what ... READ MORE

In this regular feature, Bulletproof interviews top plaintiffs’ counsel for their perspective on the crises likely to affect businesses in the near future. Today, we speak to Greg Beck, a staff lawyer with Public Citizen Litigation Group. That non-profit advocacy organization is co-counsel for the respondent, James McCoy, in Chase Bank USA v. McCoy. The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear JPMorgan Chase & Co's appeal in this lawsuit, which claims that the bank violated ... READ MORE

In this regular feature, Bulletproof interviews top plaintiffs’ counsel for their perspective on the crises likely to affect businesses in the near future. Today, we speak to Donald Haviland of Haviland Hughes, LLC in Philadelphia. Mr. Haviland has filed a lawsuit in a Philadelphia federal court on behalf of three claimants, and is seeking class status, to force Johnson & Johnson’s McNeil Consumer Healthcare unit to increase the scope of cash refunds for consumers who ... READ MORE

As labor and employment issues shed light on the recovering job market, Bulletproof Blog™ presents the next in a series of video interviews with leading legal and reputational strategists on the topic of diversity in 2010 and beyond. In today’s installment, Charles Volkert, Esq., Executive Director of Robert Half Legal, a leading staffing firm specializing in the placement of attorneys, paralegals, legal administrators and other legal professionals with law firms and corporate legal departments, discusses the ... READ MORE