National Law Journal has just published its annual Plantiffs Hot List, eleven firms that stood out on the litigation scene over the past 12 months. NLJ asked readers to nominate plaintiffs' firms with at least one significant win within the period, plus an impressive record of victories over the preceding five years. That meant prevailing in a bench or jury trial worth lots of money or testing a legal theory with the potential to shape future litigation. They looked for firms that devoted at least 50% of their resources to plaintiffs' work.
Noting that it was a year of “malaise, one in which “it's telling when the Association of Trial Lawyers of America feels compelled to change its name to a presumably more felicitous American Association for Justice,” NLJ listed the most noteworthy cases for the 11 “hot” plaintiff’s firms, which included: Baron & Budd; Bernstein, Liebhard & Lifshitz; Bernstein, Litowitz Berger & Grossman; Cohen, Milstein Hausfeld & Toll; Hagens Berman; Girardi & Keese; Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom; Labaton, Sucharow & Rudoff; Lerach Coughline Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins; Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein; and Motley Rice.
Firms that appear on this list, as well as those which appear on NLJ’s Who Represents Corporate America, and all of ALM’s publications’ lists and columns which highlight firms identified as the “go-to” firms by their clients, and firms and their clients in significant deals and suits, are compiled on a continuous basis and archived in the ALM Research Online database. Information is then available to subscribers, and in pay-for searchable spreadsheet form to non-subscribers.
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