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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 Eugene K. Hollander of The Law Offices of Eugene K. Hollander in Chicago. Last week Mr. Hollander filed suit against the Dr. Pepper Snapple Group on behalf of seven African-American warehouse employees, alleging verbal abuse, intimidation, and systematic discrimination by Hispanic co-workers and supervisors. The time element seems to be ... 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 a businessman, C. William Jones, who heads the Association of BellTel Retirees Inc., (www.belltelretirees.org) a retiree activist organization. The group is spearheading a class action against Verizon charging that, in November 2006, 3,000 fully vested company retirees were involuntarily switched to pension plans sponsored by an under-nourished spin-off ... READ MORE

As the UN-sponsored climate talks in Copenhagen began their first official day, Lisa Jackson, the Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), was in Washington, D.C. starting the week with a bang. She announced an “endangerment finding” that greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare and that emissions of such gases could now be regulated by the EPA under the federal Clean Air Act. According to administration officials, the endangerment finding will serve as the foundation ... 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 Adam Klein, a partner at New York’s Outten & Golden LLP, one of the nation’s premier labor/employment plaintiffs’ firms. Mr. Klein focuses his practice on the prosecution of class action statutory-discrimination and wage/hour cases.  Are there specific new labor/employment areas where you are now focusing significantly more attention? Adam Klein: I ... 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 R. Ajamie, managing partner of Houston, Texas-based Ajamie LLP, a global litigation firm equally distinguished on the defense and plaintiffs’ sides of major cases. As plaintiffs’ counsel, the firm has, in the last four to five years, won a dozen multi-million dollar judgments and settlements on behalf ... 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 Robert C. Gilbert, a partner in Miami’s Alters, Boldt, Brown, Rash & Culmo, P.A. Mr. Gilbert is seeking class certification in the U.S. Southern District Court in Miami for multiple national cases against eight banks – including Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Citibank, JP Morgan Chase, and Wachovia ... 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 William A. Birdthistle, Assistant Professor of Law at Chicago-Kent College of Law who filed an amicus brief for more than 20 law professors supporting the plaintiffs in Jones v. Harris Associates. That 2004 case is now before the Supreme Court. Plaintiffs are challenging the common practice whereby fund advisers ... 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 Chris Hansen, staff attorney with the ACLU First Amendment Working Group, which scored a major victory on November 2 when the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled that its lawsuit challenging patents on human genes can go forward. Association for Molecular Pathology, et ... 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 Won Kim, name partner at Toronto’s Kim Orr Barristers P.C., beneficiary of an October 29 ruling by the Ontario Supreme Court that permits U.S. plaintiffs’ firms a more direct collaborative role with Canadian firms in class actions brought in Canada. The court’s decision allows Milberg LLP to provide Kim ... READ MORE

Each week, Bulletproof Blog features exclusive interviews with thought leaders on issues of critical importance to companies and countries. This week, with online threats to corporate reputation seemingly multiplying every day, we interview Keith Schilling and Simon Smith of Schillings, one of Britain’s top law firms dedicated to safeguarding the reputations of international corporations, brands, celebrities and high-profile business people. Experts on how the Internet has impacted defamation law in the UK and the U.S., Mr. ... READ MORE