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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. |
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| Donald C. Arbitblit |
| Partner |
| San Francisco |
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| Practice Areas Include: |
Environmental
and Toxic Torts Personal Injury/Torts |
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| Bar Information |
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Admitted
to practice in Vermont, 1979; California and U.S. District Court,
Northern District of California, 1986. |
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| Education |
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Boalt Hall School of Law, University of
California (J.D., 1979); Order of the Coif; Tufts University (B.S., magna
cum laude, 1974). |
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Co-Author with Wendy Fleishman, "The
Risky Business of Off-Label Use," Trial (March 2005); Comment
on Joiner: Decision on the Daubert Test of Admissibility
of Expert Testimony, 6 Mealeys Emerging Toxic Torts,
No. 18 (December 1997); Co-author with William Bernstein, Effective
Use of Class Action Procedures in California Toxic Tort Litigation, 3 Hastings
West-Northwest Journal of Environmental Law and Policy, No. 3
(Spring 1996); The Plight of American Citizens Injured by Transboundary
River Pollution, 8 Ecology Law Quarterly, No. 2 (1979). |
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"Northern California Super Lawyer," Law & Politics,
2004, 2006, 2007. |
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Member of the Federal Court-appointed Science
Executive Committee, and Chair of the Epidemiology/Clinical Trials
Subcommittee, In re Vioxx Products Liability Litigation, MDL
No. 1657 (E.D. La.); Federal Science and Expert Witness Committees
in In re Diet Drugs (Phentermine/Fenfluramine/ Dexfenfluramine)
Products Liability Litigation, MDL No. 1203 (E.D. Pa.), In re
Baycol Products Litigation, MDL No. 1431 (D. Minn.) and Rezulin
Products Liability Litigation, MDL No. 1348 (S.D.N.Y.); Bar Association
of San Francisco; State Bar of California. |
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Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP
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"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. |
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