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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 Donald Jacobs, a partner at Budd Larner, one of New Jersey's brand-name law firms. Mr. Jacobs is an appellate lawyer who represents both plaintiffs and defendants. He recently filed a successful appeal in the high-profile Stengart v. Loving Care Agency, Inc., upholding plaintiff's position that her employer had ... 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 George Pressly and Jim Dunlavey, who founded and manage the Fairfield, CT.-based ClassAdvocate.com, which provides consumers with vital data on class actions and related topics. The database now consists of over 1500 class action investigations and lawsuits, including diverse facts on securities actions, employment lawsuits, traditional consumer class ... 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 Steven L. Wittels of Sanford Wittels & Heisler, LLP in New York, a national labor and employment powerhouse. Last week, The Plaintiff's Perspective touched on the increased prevalence of huge overtime pay cases. That very day, United Parcel Service Inc. was sued in San Diego for $100 million, which ... 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 Wiggins, a partner in the Birmingham, Al. office of Wiggins, Childs, Quinn & Pantazis, LLC, a nationally recognized advocate for employees and consumers in both individual and class action lawsuits. Mr. Wiggins currently represents seven past and current employees of Nucor Steel in a suit charging pandemic racial ... 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 Michael Vaughan, a partner at Kansas City's Walters Bender Strohbehn & Vaughan, PC, a nationally recognized trial firm that has distinguished itself on both the plaintiffs and defendants side in complex business litigation. Mr. Vaughan's firm represents plaintiffs in Thomas v. U.S. Rand NAND in which Missouri consumers, alleging ... 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 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