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From its foundation in 1974, Kazan, McClain, Lyons, Greenwood and Harley, a Writing desk of Lawyers (the Company/signature) has represented many hundreds of people with cancer, especially mesotelioma, a cancer whose unique well-known cause is esbesto. The partners of this company/signature are between the pioneers in the litigations by the asbestos.
The exercise of our company/signature is limited the cases that involve the catastrophic physical damages and the death, in particular, by to have made contact with enemy with the asbestos or other toxic substances.
The Company/signature has a national practice and a reputation in legal subjects related to the asbestos. We were the lead counsels in the collective lawsuit of Georgine, and our information helped to persuade to the Supreme Court so that it rejects that agreement. At the moment, we are the legal advisers for the plaintiffs in the litigation for a global agreement with “Fiberboard”, and have comprised of the committees of creditors of the victims of the envenenamiento by asbestos in the reorganizations by bankruptcy of important asbestos producers, including Johns-Manville, Celotex, Sea turtle of Canada, Amatex and H.K. Porter.
The Company/signature is one of the first companies of lawyers who represent people who suffer of allergies to the latex. We are the main legal advisers in the coordinated litigation of latex gloves of California (JCCP-4003) and are in the directive committee of the plaintiffs for the coordinated litigation of latex gloves of California (MDL-1148).
We exert in cases of legal responsibility by products, legal responsibility by the premises, negligence and causes of action of punitive damages in civil cases of third parties. Also we represented our clients of civil lawsuits in its cases of reclamations of indemnification to the worker when this is indicated.
Our lawyers have realized an extremely important paper when obtaining favorable, establecedores verdicts of precedents, in the Courts of Appeals and the Supreme Court of California in cases like Buttram, Sullivan, FORCE, Steele and Rudkin. All our lawyer-partners and many of our associate counsels have ample experience in judgments in the court.
More than thousand potential clients they consult to the Company/signature and they receive legal advising every year. Through the years, we have established more than two thousand cases, and at the moment, like average, we initiated a new demand per week.
Our sixty and five employees, including a seventeen lawyers, we worked in this limited number of new cases every year, thus allowing the Company/signature to provide to each client a representation to him of high quality.
We are sufficiently great like counting on extensive resources and many years of experience, but at the same time, we are sufficiently small like giving to the client an individual and excellent representation. Each case is developed individually and is handled by a small team of lawyers, legal and investigating assistants. This equipment also is endorsed by the resources of all the office, including a investigating professional and extensive data bases.
Whereas many companies use the services of expensive advisers of jury for the selection of the jury who is so important for the successful resolution of a judgment, the equipment of the Company/signature includes to our own expert the selection of juries that also works like legal assistant during the unfolding of complex cases.
The representation that we provided the client to him has two I put important. First it is to do everything what the legal system allows to repair the damage caused to each of our clients. Second it is to cause an impact I extend more: to improve the place of work by means of the public education on the labor health and the security, and by means of the legislative law. We obtain this in our litigigios, supporting our beneficial foundation, and with our active participation in “WORKSAFE” (it works out of danger) an organization concerning the state of California that supports the labor health and the security.
The Company/signature frequently provides legal advising to him to the American Victims of Asbesto (AVA) when it acts as friend of the court (amicus) in appealed cases. This relation came from the case of Jim Vermeulen, AVA founder, of which position became the Company/signature. Mr. Vermeulen, an employee of Johns-Manville, became activist in favor of the victims of the asbestos and was the unique member nonlawyer of the Committee of Creditors of the Asbestos Victims of Manville, where the Company/signature was its personal adviser.
The Company/signature also maintains an exercise pro bond (that is to say, we worked free of charge) in favor of the labor organizations and of the groups of public interest, and our lawyers stay assets and comprise of the managers of many organizations, including the Lawyers of the Consumers of California, the Association of Trial attorneys of Tree-lined avenue-Against Coast, the Association of Lawyers Charles Houston, the Committee of Cal/OSHA Advisers, to the National Union of Lawyers, the Committee of the County of Santa Clara on the Labor Health and the Security, the Coordinating Committee of the Lawyers of the AFL-CIO, the Section of Labor Laws and Use of the Organization of Lawyers of California, the Lawyers of the County of Tree-lined avenue, the Lawyers for Public Justice and the Association of Trial attorneys of America.
During twenty-five years, the Company/signature has been successful in the cases of thousands of clients. We have the capacity to quickly advance within the troublesome legal and legal processes the cases of our clients who are ill, towards a judgment or adjustment early. The Company/signature began to obtain verdicts of six numbers in favor of the victims of the asbestos in 1970, and in the first part of the decade of years 1980, already we began to obtain adjustments and verdicts of more of a million dollars.
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