Jun 19
Jun 19
Attorney General Eric Holder announced that he would be launching a criminal investigation into the activities of BP that led to the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. But can we trust an AG who worked at one of the biggest corporate defense firms in the world? Mike Papantonio appears on The Randi Rhodes Show to take on BP, as well as explain the basics of his class action suit against BP.
Jun 19
Fifty days into the Gulf oil spill, officials still don’t have a firm answer on how much oil is escaping from the damaged well or how long it could continue. Jim Lehrer talks to environmental law professors Tracy Hester of the University of Houston and Noah Hall, of Wayne State University, about the legal ramifications of the spill for BP.
May 19
LBNstudio — May 10, 2010 — The class action lawyer feeding frenzy that is occurring in Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi and Florida is covered in part three of this special series from The Legal Broadcast Network. This is hardly the professions finest hour as groups of mass tort and environmental law firms battle to not only sign up clients, but maneuver to gain control over the litigation and the public relations battle as to the proper legal approach. It is an unseemly battle featuring some of the biggest names in mass torts and class action law and Attorney Rick Kuykendalls perspective is one of a 30 year veteran of these cases and as a Gulf coast resident and native.