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Wall Street Tip-Off Law Critical to Drawing Out Corporate Whistleblowers
By Steve Berman At one point in the 1999 movie "The Insider,"60 Minutes producer Lowell Bergman (portrayed by Al Pacino) tells distraught Big Tobacco whistleblower Jeffrey Wigand, "Guys like you are in short supply." Bergmann's...
Protecting Consumer Choice in the Marketplace
By Steve Berman Optical Disc Drive. The term sounds like a line from a Sci-Fi movie. In reality, almost every home, office and school in the nation has at least one. Optical Disc Drive, or ODD, is the hi-tech way of describing the CD and DVD drive found...
$350 Million Landmark McKesson Settlement – Paving the way for industry change
Being a lawyer today can be tough, especially for those of us in the Class Action realm trying to redress practices that inflate the price of drugs. I could recite chapter and verse how the Bush administration has worked to try and rob consumers of their...
Credit Solutions of America - Media catching up with them...
With gas prices at record highs, rising food prices and the housing market in turmoil, consumers nationwide are feeling the money crunch. For those individuals with excessive debt the promise of relief and debt assistance sounds like an answer to their...
Federal Court Hangs Up on T-Mobile's Motion - SMS Case Moving Forward
T-Mobile cell-phone users won an important victory today in our case to protect them from unwanted text-message charges. To recap, we represent a group of T-Mobile customers who are upset that they have no way to completely turn off the text messaging...
Washington Mutual Rewrites Compensation Rules
The Seattle Times today ran a story about Washington Mutual rewriting its compensation rules to protect the bonuses of senior executives . In short, the company is changing the way it calculates net operating profits, excluding losses from the sub-prime...
Hagens Berman Launches Firm-wide Volunteer Program
Last week we launched a new volunteer program aimed at better serving our communities. The program, Project 2080, is a commitment by our staff and attorneys to collectively volunteer 2,080 hours of our time annually through a variety of local and national...