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In the news release, Six New Plaintiffs Join Sanford Heisler's $100m Gender Discrimination Class Action Against Forest Laboratories & Forest Pharmaceuticals, issued Nov. 5, 2012 by Sanford Heisler, LLP over PR Newswire, we are advised by the law firm that the dateline should read "NEW YORK" rather than "NEWARK, N.J." as originally issued inadvertently. The complete, corrected release follows: Six New Plaintiffs Join Sanford Heisler's $100m Gender Discrimination Class Action Against...
NEWARK, N.J., Nov. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Sanford Heisler, LLP, today added six additional female plaintiffs to the $100 million gender discrimination employment class action complaint the firm initially filed in July against New York-based Forest Laboratories, Inc., and Forest Pharmaceuticals, Inc. The amended complaint was filed in the federal court for the Southern District of New York this morning. It increases the number of named plaintiffs to ten and provides additional...
NEW YORK, July 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Sanford Wittels & Heisler, LLP, a leading public interest law firm, today filed a $100 million gender discrimination lawsuit against New York-based Forest Laboratories, Inc. and Forest Pharmaceuticals, Inc., in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Forest Pharmaceuticals is a wholly owned subsidiary of Forest Laboratories. "Forest has engaged in systematic, company-wide discriminatory treatment of female employees...
NEW YORK and SAN DIEGO, June 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- At its seventh annual Awards for Excellence dinner June 7, Chambers USA presented its 2012 "Lifetime Achievement Award" to Kate H. Murashige, senior partner in Morrison & Foerster's San Diego office. Chambers honored Dr. Murashige for her significant and continued accomplishments in patent prosecution work. She was one of only three attorneys recognized individually for Chambers' Special Awards during this year's event, and...
NEW YORK, April 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Constantine Cannon is pleased to announce that the publication Global Competition Review has named the firm to its select list of nine leading plaintiffs' antitrust practices. In its profile of the firm, Global Competition Review pointed out that Constantine Cannon holds special status within the group of firms selected. "No other plaintiff practice can claim to have won two of the three largest antitrust settlements in US history," the...
The Marathon Business Development Group is dramatically expanding their services designed to assist a personal law firm, or plaintiffs law firm grow their law practice, or to expand their law practice in their existing practice areas, or into new areas. The group says, "What most personal injury law firms, plaintiffs law firms, or law firms in general fail to recognize is consumers want legal services that are local. So if its a personal injury victim, a catastrophic injury, a...
Deadline to report a claim to DuPont is tomorrow, November 30, 2011. There are other options to consider. PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 29, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new website, www.TreeDamageInfo.com, has launched to provide critical information about DuPont Imprelis®, a weed-killing product alleged to be responsible for harming trees, shrubs, and other non-target foliage. The website includes photographs of Imprelis®-related damage, instructions on what to do if your property...
NEW YORK, Aug. 23, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Wendy R. Fleishman of the national plaintiffs' law firm Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP announced that Tiffany Littles, 33, of Jacksonville, Florida, filed a personal injury lawsuit against Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals, Inc., for severe and lasting injuries caused by Bayer's birth control drug Yaz. Littles' complaint charges that Yaz is a dangerous prescription drug sold without adequate warnings about the risk of serious injuries....
NEW YORK, Dec. 1, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Constantine Cannon LLP won a closely-watched healthcare antitrust trial against CareCore National, LLC, a radiology benefits management company. The verdict was reached late Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. After a more than two-week trial, the jury awarded over $11 million in damages to the plaintiffs in the case, which are to be trebled by law. The total judgment, with costs and attorneys fees is expected to...
NEW YORK, Nov. 18, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- The final hearing for approval of the class settlement in the long-running class action gender discrimination case brought by female sales representatives at Novartis Pharmaceutical Corporation is set for Friday, November 19th at 10 a.m. in the courtroom of Judge Colleen McMahon of United States District Court for the Southern District of New York in Manhattan. The plaintiffs are seeking Court approval for the unopposed final settlement agreement. The...
