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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 employment lawyer Anthony Lazzaro of The Lazzaro Law Firm, LLC in Cleveland, Ohio, who specializes in wage and hour cases. Mr. Lazzaro is currently representing some 40 legal secretaries against their employer, Turocy & Watson, an intellectual property law firm. The employees claim the firm misclassified their job status ... 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 Jonathan S. Selbin, who represents plaintiffs in a class action alleging that Dell shipped faulty laptops with defective cooling fans, power supplies, and other essential materials. At issue are the Inspiron 5160 and 1150 models sold between July 2004 and January 2005. The case has particular relevance because 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 Marc R. Levy of Levy, Morse & Wheeler, P.C. in Denver. A lawyer who usually defends insurance companies, Mr. Levy recently won one of the largest plaintiff’s verdicts in Colorado history against Time Insurance (also known as Fortis and Assurant Health). In late January, a jury found for his ... 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 Harris of The Law Offices of Daniel Harris in Chicago and Ann Miller of Ann Miller, LLC in Philadelphia, two of the lawyers representing plaintiffs in Coleman v. Commonwealth Land Title Insurance Co. In late January, 2010 U.S. District Judge Joel H. Slomsky refused to dismiss class action ... 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 Childress, a founding partner of Childress Duffy Goldblatt, a national plaintiff’s trial firm with offices in Chicago and Florida. Mr. Childress’ experience cuts across a wide range of plaintiff’s issues. He has thirty years experience representing corporate and private insureds in bad faith and first-party property damages ... 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 Joel A. Kaplan of Kaplan and Freedman, P.A. in Miami, who, with Coral Springs, Fla. Attorney Scott N. Gelfand, has filed suit against Florida Power & Light Co. (FP&L) after a power outage during the second weekend in January ostensibly left 25,000 homeowners in Broward and Palm Beach ... 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 Anthony Tarricone, President of the American Association for Justice (AAJ) and a partner in the Boston office of Kreindler & Kreindler, LLP. We asked Mr. Tarricone to address his organization’s legislative agenda, including last month’s action by Congress prohibiting defense contractors from mandating arbitration in their employment contracts. What larger ... 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 Matthew Ferguson of Garfield & Hecht, P.C. in Aspen, Colorado. Mr. Ferguson has filed a lawsuit against Related Westpac Real Estate LLC and Base Village Owners LLC on behalf of six buyers of eight units at the Viceroy in Colorado’s Snowmass Village, a hotel condo project. Plaintiffs want their ... 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 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