|
|
In 2007, Lieff Cabraser attorneys, with local
co-counsel, obtained a $50
million verdict against Daimler Chrysler
in a wrongful death action. Our firm has participated
in over thirty-five $100 million-plus settlements
and verdicts, including ten
cases in excess of $1 billion. |
|
|
|
|
|
| Paulina do Amaral |
| Partner |
|
| Practice Areas Include: |
Environmental and Toxic Torts
Personal Injury/Torts
Defective Products |
|
|
| New York |
|
|
|
| Bar Information |
| |
Admitted to practice in New York, 1997;
California, 1998; U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, 1999; U.S.
District Court for the Southern District of New York, 2004; U.S. District
Court for the Western District of Michigan, 2004; U.S. Dictrict Court
for the Eastern District of Michigan, 2007. |
|
|
| Education |
| |
Hastings College of Law, University of California
(J.D., 1996); Executive Editor, Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly;
National Moot Court Competition Team, 1995; Moot Court Executive Board;
University of Rochester (B.A., 1988). |
|
|
| Prior Employment |
| |
Law Clerk to Chief Judge Richard Alan Enslen,
U.S. District Court, Western District of Michigan, 1996-98. |
|
|
| Member |
| |
Committee on the Judiciary, Association
of the Bar of the City of New York (2007-2010); American Bar Association;
State Bar of New York; State Bar of California; American Trial Lawyers
Association. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lieff
Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP
|
|
|
|
|
|
Copyright © 2007 Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP |
|
|
|
|
"Popcorn firms
removing diacetyl linked to lung ailments in
factory workers"
December 18, 2007, Associated Press
The nation's four biggest makers of microwave popcorn have removed a flavoring
chemical linked to a lung ailment in popcorn plant workers from nearly all their
products. The companies say all their microwave popcorn recipes should be changed
by January. More...
To read more press articles on the Popcorn Lung litigation, click
here. |
|
|
|
|
