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In this regular feature, Bulletproof interviews top plaintiffs' attorneys for their perspective on the crises likely to affect businesses in the near future. Today we talk to James P. Kreindler of Kreindler & Kreindler LLP, arguably the world's leading aviation plaintiffs' firm. Mr. Kreindler and his partner Steven Pounian have just been named Trial Lawyers of the Year for 2009 by the Trial Lawyers for Public Justice Organization for their work in the Lockerbie, Scotland ... READ MORE

Fresh on the heels of Senator Orin Hatch's allegations that the college football Bowl Championship Series (BCS) violates U.S. antitrust laws, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is again under fire for allegedly anti-competitive practices. This time, it's former men's basketball and football players that are blowing the whistle, claiming that the NCAA has violated their likeness rights - and its own rules - by allowing EA Sports to manufacture video games that utilize their jersey ... READ MORE

In this regular feature, Bulletproof interviews top plaintiffs' attorneys for their perspective on the crises likely to affect businesses in the near future. Today we talk to Maria LaHood, Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR). Ms. LaHood practices international human rights litigation, seeking to hold government officials and corporations accountable for torture, extrajudicial killings, and war crimes abroad. In June 2009, the CCR scored a resounding victory when Royal Dutch Shell agreed ... READ MORE

In this regular feature, Bulletproof interviews top plaintiffs' attorneys for their perspective on the crises likely to affect businesses in the near future. Today we talk to Daniel S. Mason, a partner in the San Francisco office of Zelle Hofmann Voelbel & Mason LLP, one of the nation's leading firms on both the plaintiffs' and defense sides of complex litigation. We asked Mr. Mason to address the trends affecting plaintiffs' antitrust actions, an area where ... READ MORE

In this regular feature, Bulletproof interviews top plaintiffs' attorneys for their perspective on the crises likely to affect businesses in the near future. Today we talk to Bruce Kaster of Kaster & Lynch PA in Ocala, Fl. Mr. Kaster is universally recognized as the leading plaintiff's lawyer in the United States for defective tire cases as well as an inexhaustible resource of information and guidance for other lawyers handling such cases throughout the country. What effect ... READ MORE

In this regular feature, Bulletproof interviews top plaintiffs' attorneys for their perspective on the crises likely to affect businesses in the near future. Today we talk to Jeffrey B. Kaplan, partner in the Miami office of Dimond Kaplan & Rothstein, P.A. a global practice representing investors against negligent or dishonest brokers and financial institutions. Among important recent cases, the firm commenced a class action against the IBM Southeast Employees' Federal Credit Union alleging that it ... READ MORE

In this regular feature, Bulletproof interviews top plaintiffs' attorneys for their perspective on the crises likely to affect businesses in the near future. Today we talk to Frank P. DiPrima of the Law Office of Frank DiPrima in Morristown, NJ. Mr. DiPrima has been co-counsel in the derivative law suit against Richard Scrushy, founder of HealthSouth Corporation. In its June, 2009, decision in Wade Tucker v Richard Scrushy et al., an Alabama court awarded plaintiffs $2.876 ... READ MORE

Yesterday's Supreme Court ruling that state regulators can take national banks to court in order to enforce state consumer protection laws is yet another blow to the principle of "preemption." For those non-constitutional law scholars out there, preemption is the means by which federal law supersedes state law when contradictions between the two arise. In this case, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo and his predecessor Eliot Spitzer sought to enforce state consumer protection laws against ... READ MORE

In this regular feature, Bulletproof interviews top plaintiffs' attorneys for their perspective on the crises likely to affect businesses in the near future. Today we talk to Stephen D. Susman of Houston's Susman & Godfrey LLP. In the decades since his landmark 1980 victory, in which he won an award in excess of $550 million for victims of a nationwide price-fixing conspiracy, Mr. Susman has commanded the respect of business leaders and lawyers alike, on ... READ MORE

In this regular feature, Bulletproof interviews top plaintiffs' attorneys for their perspective on the crises likely to affect businesses in the near future. Today we talk to Thomas Demetrio, partner at Chicago's fabled Corboy & Demetrio, who has won over $130 million in jury verdicts, including the largest personal injury verdict ever upheld by the Illinois Supreme Court, along with over $1 billion in settlements. You've seen the civil justice system undergo a number of transformations. ... READ MORE