Keller Rohrback associate attorney, Felicia Craick, was recently featured in a King 5 news story discussing the ongoing litigations being brought by school districts from around the country seeking to address the role that social media companies play in the nation’s youth mental health crisis. The story comes in light of the recent public health advisory issued by the U.S. Surgeon General, Dr. Vivek Murthy.
Keller Rohrback wants to congratulate the six members of our team recognized by prominent legal media company, Lawdragon, in their 2023 500 Leading Plaintiff Financial Lawyers guide.
The Keller Rohrback complex litigation team was recently featured in a "Lawdragon limelight." Derek Loeser, Lynn Sarko, and Gretchen Freeman Cappio represented the department for the feature.
Below is an excerpt from the feature titled, "A TEAM TAKING CORPORATIONS TO TASK: COMPLEX LITIGATION AT KELLER ROHRBACK"
Keller Rohrback is thrilled to announce a $235 million settlement with Altria and related companies, in the massive nation-wide JUUL e-cigarette youth vaping predatory advertising, fraud, addiction and injury litigation.
Keller Rohrback was a proud sponsor of the UW (University of Washington) NALSA (Native American Law Student Association) 2023 Salmon Bingo Dinner. The dinner took place on Friday, April 28, at wǝɫǝbʔaltxw (Intellectual House) on the UW campus. The dinner featured Indigenously prepared foods, and bingo with prizes focused on Native-created items or Native-owned businesses.
Keller Rohrback Managing Partner, Lynn Lincoln Sarko, was recently named as one of Law360 “Titans of the Plaintiffs Bar” for 2023. The “Titans” award seeks to recognize influential members of the plaintiffs’ bar who have had significant wins over the past year. Lynn is one of only 12 attorneys recognized for this honor this year.
Please join us in congratulating Managing Partner, Lynn Sarko, for being featured as a 2023 Law360 Titans of The Plaintiffs Bar honoree. Lynn was one of 12 attorneys selected who lead class action and mass torts litigation, shareholder derivative suits, and multidistrict litigation.
Keller Rohrback’s Portland office is growing! Two established Portland lawyers, Josh Ross and Keil Mueller, join Yoona Park in Keller Rohrback’s newest office in Portland, Oregon. These three partners will collaborate closely with KR’s teams in its other six offices to continue the firm’s work in providing valued legal expertise to clients and representing government entities and other plaintiffs in large-scale, impact litigation.
The attorneys and staff of Keller Rohrback are honored to sponsor Elizabeth Gregory Home, supporting the mission of providing homeless and at-risk women with respect, dignity, and empathy.
For the second year in a row, Keller Rohrback partners Gretchen Freeman Cappio and Derek Loeser, along with Managing Partner Lynn Sarko, have been named to the Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America. Congratulations to Lynn, Gretchen and Derek on earning this high honor!
We are excited to announce that Keller Rohrback has been recognized by Law360 as one of its “Practice Groups of the Year” for 2022 in two categories: Product Liability and Cybersecurity and Privacy! Law360 is the country’s foremost online publications for legal news and analysis and the Practice Group of the Year awards “honor the attorney teams behind litigation wins and major deals that resonated through the legal industry.”
On Friday, January 6, 2023, Seattle Public Schools took the first step towards holding social media companies accountable for the harm they have wreaked on the social, emotional, and mental health of its students by filing a lawsuit against the companies operating TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, SnapChat, and YouTube.
Facebook User Plaintiffs and Defendant Facebook have agreed to resolve In re: Facebook, Inc. Consumer Privacy User Profile Litig., No. 3:18-md-02843-VC, the class action arising out of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, for $725 million—the largest settlement ever of a privacy class action in the United States.
Keller Rohrback is pleased to announce that on December 15, 2022, Monsanto Company has agreed to pay $698 million to the State of Oregon to resolve the State’s claims against the giant multinational chemical company for PCB contamination throughout Oregon. Monsanto, the sole manufacturer of PCBs in the United States, made and sold over 1.4 billion pounds of PCBs despite knowing they are toxic, bioaccumulate, and last effectively forever.
The Keller Rohrback ERISA team, along with co-counsel at Stris & Maher and the Seattle City Attorney, completed its successful defense of a landmark Seattle ordinance when the Supreme Court denied a petition for certiorari brought by a nationwide employer association. The ordinance requires large hotels to spend a certain amount for their employees’ health care or pay the employees additional compensation so as to enable them to afford such care.
Keller Rohrback is honored to have been included in the 2023 edition of the U.S. News & World Report’s– Best Lawyers® "Best Law Firms" publication receiving multiple tiered rankings in various recognized practice areas and locations. Achieving a tiered ranking in U.S. News – Best Lawyers® "Best Law Firms" signals a unique combination of quality law practice and breadth of legal expertise.
Keller Rohrback partner, Derek Loeser has recently been featured in the popular Lawdragon.com Lawyer Limelight interview series. In his interview, Derek discusses his early career working for the US Department of Justice in the Civil Rights Division, and what drives him to take on large corporations who abuse their power, and where he sees the future of complex litigation going, among other topics.
Keller Rohrback is honored to have been recognized by the American Antitrust Institute (AAI) for its work on the In re EpiPen Marketing, Sales Practices, and Antitrust Litigation. The Keller Rohrback team of Lynn Sarko, Gretchen Freeman Cappio, Alison Chase and Felicia Craick will be recognized, alongside co-counsel from Burn Charest LLP, Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP, Pritzker Levine LLP, Sharp Law LLP, Boies Schiller Flexner LLP, on November 9th at the 2022 AAI Awards Night in the category of Outstanding Antitrust Litigation Achievement in Private Law Practice.
On September 20, Federal District Court Judge Philip S. Gutierrez granted final approval of a combined $230 million class action settlement arising out of Plains All American Pipeline’s 2015 Refugio Oil Spill on the Santa Barbara coast.
On Friday, August 26, 2022, Facebook User Plaintiffs and Defendant Facebook informed the court that they have reached a settlement in principle in the action In re: Facebook, Inc. Consumer Privacy User Profile Litig., No. 3:18-md-02843-VC.
Congratulations to Keller Rohrback partner, Cari Laufenberg for being recognized by Best Lawyers ® as the 2023 Litigation - ERISA “Lawyer of the Year” award winner in Seattle!
Keller Rohrback partner, Gretchen Freeman Cappio has recently been featured in the popular Lawdragon.com Lawyer Limelight interview series. In her interview, Gretchen discusses her international journey to becoming lawyer, her law professor father’s influence and what drives her to leave the world in a better place through the practice of law among other topics. An excerpt of the interview can be read below:
Congratulations to Derek Loeser, who was selected to the Washington 2022 Super Lawyers Top 100 list! Keller Rohrback is thrilled to support Derek in this distinct honor.
Keller Rohrback is proud to announce that twenty-two of our attorneys have been named to the 2022 Washington and Northern California, Super Lawyers and Rising Stars lists!
Lawdragon.com has recently featured Keller Rohrback Managing Partner, Lynn Sarko, in its popular Lawyer Limelight interview series. In the interview, Lynn, who was previously recognized by Lawdragon as one of the 2022 Leading Lawyers in America, discusses his path to becoming a lawyer, how his early life on farm in Illinois prepared him for his current role leading a nationally recognized law firm, and the work that he is most proud of amongst other interesting topics
Keller Rohrback Is Pleased to Announce That Portland-area Air Quality Researchers Will Be Acquiring Air Pollution Monitoring Equipment as the Result of a Recent Class Action Settlement.
Keller Rohrback is pleased to have been recognized for its antitrust work in the 2021 Antitrust Annual Report published in partnership by the Center for Litigation and Courts at UC Hastings College of Law and The Huntington National Bank. Keller Rohrback was included in their rankings for the category of “Top 50 Cases with Settlements Reaching Final Approval 2009-2021.” Keller Rohrback achieved this ranking by having been a part of one of the largest antitrust settlements reached during this time period. Congratulations to the Keller Rohrback Antitrust Team!
Earth Day, celebrated annually on April 22, is an important reminder to support and protect the environment, raise awareness on the climate and ecological crises, and to make a conscious effort to reduce our environmental impact.
We are excited to announce that Keller Rohrback partner Jeff Lewis has been appointed to the United States Department of Labor Advisory Council on Employee Welfare and Pension Benefit Plans for 2022.
In re EpiPen (Epinephrine Injection, USP) Marketing, Sales Practices and Antitrust Litigation
United States District Court, District of Kansas
MDL No. 2785
Drug manufacturer Johnson & Johnson and three major drug distributors: Cardinal Health Inc., McKesson Corp. and AmerisourceBergen Corp., have announced that they will collectively pay $26 billion to settle thousands of lawsuits nationwide
Please join us in congratulating Keller Rohrback managing partner Lynn Sarko and partners Gretchen Cappio and Derek Loeser on their selection to the 2022 Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America.
Erin Riley, a Keller Rohrback partner, was elected by the Board of Governors of the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel (ACEBC®) to be inducted as a Fellow in the College at the College's Annual Dinner to be held at the Chicago Club in Chicago, IL, on September 17, 2022.
Erin Riley, a Keller Rohrback partner, was elected by the Board of Governors of the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel (ACEBC®) to be inducted as a Fellow in the College at the College's Annual Dinner to be held at the Chicago Club in Chicago, IL, on September 17, 2022.
Keller Rohrback is proud to announce that Eric Laliberte, Holly Lynch and Matthew Preusch have been named our newest partners, effective January 1, 2022.
Keller Rohrback wants to recognize and thank its associate attorneys who recently took part in the 2021 Legal Foundation of Washington’s Associates Campaign for Equal Justice. The Associates Campaign raises funds for civil legal aid programs to advance justice for families experiencing poverty.
The Keller Rohrback Phoenix office was recognized in the Phoenix Metropolitan area with a Tier 2 ranking for our Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law practice, and the Seattle office was recognized in the Seattle Metropolitan area with a Tier 2 ranking for our Trusts and Estates Law practice.
Keller Rohrback is proud to announce that 24 of our attorneys were named to the 2021 Washington, Southwest, and Northern California Super Lawyers and Rising Stars lists.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued an opinion upholding California’s “Cal Savers” program, which enables workers whose employers do not sponsor retirement plans to save for their retirement.
Two of the nation’s largest and most influential employee benefits advocates, the Pension Rights Center and the National Employment Lawyers Association, hired Keller Rohrback to draft and submit a “friend of the court” brief (“amicus” in Latin) in a recent Ninth Circuit appeal. The case is Bafford v. Northrop Grumman Corp., No. 20-55222 (9th Cir.).
Sydney Read of University of Colorado Law School, Lauren Lankenau of Vanderbilt University School of Law, and Rachel Bowanko of Stanford Law School will intern in Keller Rohrback's Santa Barbara office this summer.
Today, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Defendants’ bid to appeal the district court’s class certification order for a nationwide RICO class in In re EpiPen (Epinephrine Injection, USP) Marketing, Sales Practices and Antitrust Litigation, the multidistrict litigation against Mylan and Pfizer that seeks to hold Defendants accountable for forcing consumers to pay inflated prices for EpiPens. Today’s order allows the class action to move forward toward trial, which is scheduled for April 2021.
Last week, a Washington federal judge granted the City of Seattle's motion to dismiss the ERISA Industry Committee v City of Seattle case, which challenged the City's landmark law requiring large hotels to provide access to adequate health care for their employees and the employees’ families. The motion was granted without leave to amend. Our work on this case led to the firm being named one of Law360's Legal Lions.
In celebration of Black History Month, Keller Rohrback highlighted some of the many black attorneys whose achievements have pushed our country forward. Click the "Read More" button for more information.
A federal judge formally approved a $142 million settlement to compensate customers injured by the Wells Fargo “unauthorized account” scandal. Wells Fargo customers who believe an unauthorized account was opened in their name still have time to file a claim.
Legal magazine Lawdragon has published its annual listing of the 500 “Leading Lawyers in America,” which includes Keller Rohrback managing partner Lynn Lincoln Sarko and senior partner Derek W. Loeser. Selected from a combination of editorial research by Lawdragon staff, law firm submissions, and other online nominations, the Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers list is a mark of high distinction in the legal profession.
A lawsuit challenging a plasma collection company’s refusal to allow donations by a transgender woman has been resolved, two months before the case was scheduled for trial in federal court in Seattle.
Class actions help people harness their collective power, and for many it is the only way they can get relief and put an end to serious corporate fraud.
Keller Rohrback is proud to announce that two of our California attorneys have been named to the 2016 Northern California Super Lawyers and Rising Stars lists for outstanding legal service.
The Keller Rohrback L.L.P. presentations will center on the current status of the Volkswagen case, current events in Settlement in Mass Tort and Class Action Litigation, as well as current environmental cases and other topics.
