Hagens Berman is honored to join the [F]law and the Systemic Justice Project, in collaboration with several other student organizations at Harvard Law School for “Corporate Capture of the Legal System,” a conference bringing together prominent participants speaking about the corrupting influence and harmful effects of corporate interests on legal education, the legal profession, legal media and the law more broadly.
Harvard Law School - Jan. 27-28, 2023
The conference will include a live taping of the 5-4 podcast in which they will interview best-selling author David Enrich about his recent book, “Servants of the Damned.”
It will also spotlight types of practice and practitioners whose work challenges and counteracts corporate power and holds corporations accountable. The event is intended to join other ongoing efforts to expand the coalition of law students, lawyers, and legal journalists devoted to addressing the problems of excessive corporate power through education, organization, storytelling, and litigation.”
THE SPEAKERS
Among the list of conference presenters are two of Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro’s prominent pharmaceutical fraud and antitrust litigation experts who will speak about the firm’s passion: justice-oriented, counter corporate plaintiffs-side lawyering. They will join a host of noteworthy conference speakers including Noam Chomsky, Ralph Nader and other esteemed guests.
Thomas M. Sobol, Partner, Executive Committee Member, Leads Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro’s Boston Office
Mr. Sobol has spent his 40-year career in law holding Big Pharma accountable for schemes ranging from pay-for-delay generic drug cases, pricing fraud and antitrust, sham patent litigation and mass torts. Among his career highlights, Tom achieved a $325 million for third party payers in a class settlement, In re Neurontin Marketing, Sales Practices, and Products Liability Litigation, No. 04-md-1629 (D. Mass.). He also settled a case for approximately $200 million for tort victim recoveries via a bankruptcy plan, In re New England Compounding Pharmacy, Inc. Products Liability Litigation, MDL No. 2419 (D. Mass.). His casework has ushered in a 4% price reduction of most retail drugs, and he has served as lead negotiator in court-approved settlements totaling more than $2 billion.
Lauren Guth Barnes, Partner & Management Committee Member
Lauren’s practice at Hagens Berman’s Boston office focuses on antitrust, consumer protection and RICO litigation against drug and medical device manufacturers in complex class actions and personal injury cases for consumers, large and small health plans, direct purchasers and state governments. Ms. Barnes was honored with the American Association for Justice’s Marie Lambert Award in 2018, given to a female attorney in recognition of her exemplary leadership to the profession, to her community, to AAJ and to the Women Trial Lawyers Caucus. She has recently served a leadership position in many high-profile class-action cases including In re Vascepa Antitrust Litigation (D.N.J.), In re Glumetza Antitrust Litigation (N.D. CA.), In re Intuniv Antitrust Litigation (D. Mass.) and In re Humira (Adalimumab) Antitrust Litigation (N.D. Ill.).
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Systemic Justice Project
SJP is a Harvard Law School-based program created in 2014 devoted to understanding the complex and overlapping causes of systemic problems (from racial injustice and economic inequality to climate change and political corruption), theorizing strategies for challenging and addressing those problems, and facilitating collaborations among law students, lawyers, organizers and activists to help advance those strategies. Learn more »
The [F]law
The [F]law is the product of the Systemic Justice Project and Harvard Law School students concerned about the harms caused by corporate interests and the law’s role in empowering corporations. The [F]law’s primary mission is to share stories that reveal how corporate law and power create social problems and systemic injustices. In addition, The [F]law also serves as an alternative to the mainstream (corporate-dominated) media approach of highlighting spectacle and policy symptoms rather than the deeper dynamics and common roots of systemic problems. Learn more »
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