Public Justice highlights five cases under consideration for the 2014 Trial Lawyer of the Year Award
A common mantra of the corporate world, “greedy lawyers” and “frivolous lawsuits.” It is no wonder there is so much disdain, lawyers hold corporate America accountable when they break the law and mistreat people in the name of profit....
How the asbestos industry bought a clean bill of health for chrysotile and expanded global exports
It is widely known that asbestos in all forms, including chrysotile, causes cancer. However, proponents of this cheap, versatile and deadly mineral insist on its safety. Rory O’Neill’s exposé in Hazards Magazine reveals the four point plan devised by...
You may not recognize his name but you know his face. Famed character actor Ed Lauter died of mesothelioma, a rare and deadly asbestos-related cancer, in October 2013. Just last month an asbestos lawsuit was filed by his family against the television networks that had employed Mr. Lauter during his long acting...
Bricker, Nichols and Lawrence credit their current success to the firm’s supportive working environment
National plaintiffs’ firm Waters Kraus & Paul is honored to welcome three new partners to the firm. David Bricker and Dimitri N. Nichols office in the firm’s southern California location and Wm. Paul Lawrence, II practices in the firm’s...
After overcoming years of impossible setbacks, the widow of a mesothelioma victim is awarded justice for her husband’s quiet suffering
At the end of the day this past Friday, a jury in Los Angeles found for plaintiffs Donna Saller and her daughters. They were awarded over $5 million in economic and non-economic damages, and $3.6 million in punitive damages,...
The following statement is being issued by Waters Kraus & Paul, LLP and Complex Law Group, LLC, regarding In re Cobb EMC Class Action, Civil Action File No. 10:100353-48.
TO: ALL CURRENT AND FORMER MEMBERS OF COBB ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORPORATION
Please Read this Notice Carefully – It May Affect Your Rights. This Notice is given pursuant to an Order of the...
Waters Kraus & Paul Joins in this Annual Day of Observance to Help Educate the Public, Commemorate Our Clients, and Fight for a Better Future
National Mesothelioma Awareness Day is a day to educate ourselves and our communities, so that we may learn from the past to protect the future, as well as develop better treatments, and one day find a cure. This is...
Waters Kraus & Paul Partner Receives the Wiedemann Wysocki Award for His Work With the AAJ and His Efforts to Improve the Civil Justice System
Charles Siegel, a partner at Waters Kraus & Paul, has been honored by the American Association for Justice (AAJ) with the prestigious Wiedemann Wysocki National Finance Council Award. The award recognizes trial...
Four Waters Kraus & Paul Asbestos Cases Are Listed in the Legal Intelligencer’s “Top Verdicts from Past 20 Years”
Four successful Waters Kraus & Paul verdicts in asbestos-related mesothelioma cases have been chosen for inclusion in The Legal Intelligencer’s database of the top Pennsylvania verdicts from the past 20 years....
April 4, 2013 — The U.S. False Claims Act helps the government fight fraud that that costs the American taxpayers money. The anti-fraud statute contains qui tam language that encourages conscientious informants to bring a lawsuit for the government by allowing whistleblowers to participate in any recovery. Should the United States choose to intervene, the tipster takes home a smaller portion...
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