| *Most recent Jury Verdict or Settlement: $8.25 Million dollar settlement in E. coli HUS Case, October 1, 2006, Obtained by Attorney Nick Allis of the Law Office of Nicholas Allis. |
| *The results obtained in the cases listed were dependent upon the facts of the cases, and the results will differ in other cases based on different facts |
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E coli HUS Lawyers and Food Poisoning Attorneys Nick Allis and Ray Henke Join Forces to Provide Legal Representation to Those Who Have Suffered HUS and TTP Contaminated California Spinach in Arizona California Colorado Connecticut Idaho Illinois Indiana Kentucky Maine Maryland Michigan Minnesota Nebraska Nevada New Mexico New York Ohio Oregon Pennsylvania Tennessee Utah Virginia Washington Wisconsin and Wyoming.
E coli HUS Lawyer Nick Allis has spent the past several years actively involved in E coli and HUS litigation, recently settling one E coli HUS case for 8.25 million dollars. Attorney Ray Henke is a nationally acclaimed Food and Drug lawyer. Our qualifications are described in the section of this web page immediately following this one. We invite you to consider our qualifications and the fill in the E coli Lawyers HUS Attorneys Case Evaluation Form and we will contact you immediately. Everyone who has sustained illness as the result of this E coli outbreak is invited to contact us regardless of the state in which the spinach was consumed and the E coli illness contracted. We consider that representation by our California E coli lawyers and HUS attorneys will have advantages for all those who suffered E coli illness, HUS or TTP. The cases have arisen in Arizona California Colorado Connecticut Idaho Illinois Indiana Kentucky Maine Maryland Michigan Minnesota Nebraska Nevada New Mexico New York Ohio Oregon Pennsylvania Tennessee Utah Virginia Washington Wisconsin and Wyoming.
As discussed below, the recent Ecoli and HUS cases arising in August and September 2006 which resulted from consumption of spinach grown in three California counties, and distributed nationwide by a California distributor are properly filed and the California Superior Courts and we consider that there are substantial advantages to filing the cases in the California courts. Briefly, the principle distributor of all of the contaminated spinach was Natural Selection Foods, LLC, of San Juan Bautista, California so that all of the discovery, including depositions of the growers and principle distributor of all the spinach will need to be conducted here in California.
California E coli HUS lawyer Nick Allis also provides information with regard to the prosecution of Ecoli and Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome cases under California law, and the advantages to filing suit in California in all of the E coli cases arising in August and September 2006 from ingestion of spinach in the states identified by the FDA and CDC as a part of this California spinach outbreak, including specifically Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.
E. Coli Lawyer and HUS Litigation Attorney Nick Allis Is A Highly Experienced California Food Poisoning Lawyer With the Highest Trial Lawyer Credentials.
E coli lawyer Nicholas Allis has spent the last several years of his 30 year career as a trial lawyer specifically in E coli litigation and HUS litigation. His entire career has been spent in highly complex medical litigation and pharmaceutical product liability litigation through which he has prepared himself for the Ecoli litigation and HUS litigation by his extensive training and education in epidemiology and medical science. Over the past several years he has extensively studied all of the epidemiological, medical and scientific literature on ecoli and Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome in order to prepare and present the Ecoli and HUS litigation. Food poisoning attorney Nick Allis has also assembled a team of the most highly qualified experts specifically for the presentation of E coli and HUS cases. He has also personally conducted the discovery of defendants responsible for Ecoli food contamination essential to the preparation of E. Coli litigation. His education and training specifically as an E. Coli and HUS attorney is up to date and current as he was scheduled for trial to present one Ecoli/HUS case in October 2006.
Most Recent E coli Settlement: Mr. Allis settled the above referenced E. coli HUS case on the eve of the trial for $8,250,000.00 during a settlement conference in which he presented the conclusions of his world class experts and a "power-point slide presentation" that an attorney employee had spent a month preparing. Prior to the eve of trial the defendants had never offered more than $1.75 million dollars. It was solely because of Mr. Allis' reputation as a trial lawyer, his specific legal concentration in the food poisoning litigation and his devotion to the preparation this E coli case in particular, that he was able to obtain this superior result for his client.
Mr. Allis received his B.A. degree from Yale University and his Juris Doctorate degree from Georgetown University. At Georgetown Law Center, Mr. Allis served on the executive board of the Georgetown Law Journal. For his first year after law school he clerked for a Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He then became a partner in nationally acclaimed Law Office Butler, Dan, Allis and Reback which specialized in food and drug cases nationally. California E. Coli and HUS lawyer Mr. Allis has extensive litigation experience, serving as lead attorney in over 60 major jury trials. Attorney Allis has argued before the United Sates Supreme Court and is a member of the U.S. Supreme Court Bar. In addition to food poisoning and E. Coli and HUS cases Mr. Allis has litigated many of the most complex cases involving the presentation of epidemiological evidence similar to that which is presented in ecoli and HUS cases, as well involving the application of Food and Drug law, in drug and pharmaceutical product litigation, including DES, the Dalcon Shield, Breast Implants, Phen-Phen, Bendectin, and Tylenol. As a part of his educational process he became so intently involved in food poisoning, Ecoli and HUS litigation that he took the course of study and passed the test to become a Certified Food Manager.
Attorney Allis has served as the President of the Beverly Hills Bar Association, one of the most prestigious and largest lawyer associations with a membership of over 3000 attorneys. Attorney Allis is on the board of Public Counsel, the largest public interest law firm in the United States. He is also on the board of the Beverly Hills Bar Foundation. California E Coli attorney and HUS lawyer Nick Allis has received the President's Award and the Distinguished Service Award from the Beverly Hills Bar Association and he is a lecturer for the California Continuing Education of the Bar and for the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles. He has published legal articles in such journals as the Georgetown Law Journal, the University of Southern California Law Review, as well as in the “Advocate,”the legal journal of the Consumer Attorneys of Los Angeles.
E coli and HUS attorney Nick Allis is "AV" rated by Martindale & Hubbell, the highest lawyer and law firm rankings awarded by the most highly respected lawyer and law firm rating directory in the United States. "A" is defined as "very high to preeminent" in "legal ability"; "V" is defined as "very high" "general ethical standards." According to Martindale & Hubbell: "AV Peer Review Rating shows that a lawyer has reached the height of professional excellence. He or she has usually practiced law for many years, and is recognized for the highest levels of skill and integrity."
It is E coli Lawyer and HUS lawyer Mr. Allis who will take the lead in prosecuting all Ecoli and HUS litigation. Attorney Henke will accept only a secondary supporting role in the cases out of his great respect for Mr. Allis' specific experience in the E Coli litigation.
Food and drug attorney Mr. Henke is a nationally acclaimed medical malpractice and drug product liability lawyer. He has been recognized by his trial lawyer peers specifically for his accomplishments in complex drug product liability litigation, and indeed nominated "Trial Lawyer of the Year" by the Los Angeles Trial Lawyers Association for his prosecution of one such body of drug litigation. Attorney Henke also received the "President's Award" from LATLA. California attorney Henke has received widespread recognition in the legitimate press specifically for his prosecution of important pharmaceutical litigation prosecuted under the Food Drug & Cosmetic Act. His cases and trials have been chronicled on the front page of the New York Times and the front page of the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post and most other legitimate newspapers. Mr. Henke’s cases have also been described in serious legal state and national magazines, from California Lawyer to the National Law Journal. Attorney Henke's cases have been chronicled also in the legitimate national and international television news media for his participation in medical and pharmaceutical litigation, e.g., Tom Brokaw's NBC Nightly News, CNN. Attorney Henke has testified before Congress about his drug cases and use of punitive damage claims to punish the drug manufacturers, at the invitation of the Chairman of the US House Judiciary Committee. With the nationally acclaimed pharmaceutical product liability law firm of Butler, Dan Allis & Reback, attorney. Henke was involved in Dalkon Shield, DES, Thalidomide, Bendectin and DPT litigation. Attorney Henke was also involved in the breast implant litigation and the asbestos litigation, and in prosecuting AIDS drug fraud litigation involving the drug Viroxan. Mr. Henke has also achieved important published appellate victories in drug product litigation which may well have application in the E. Coli litigation, including a landmark published federal court of appeals class action opinion which defines the scope of permissible federal court mandatory class action.
Attorney Henke is a former Governor of the Los Angeles Trial Lawyers Association (now the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles) the 5th largest trial lawyer bar in the United States, and served for many years as the Editor-in-Chief of the LATLA Advocate Law Journal.
California Food and Drug Attorney Henke is "AV" rated by Martindale and Hubbell, "A" connoting "very high to preeminent" legal ability, and "V"connoting "very high" ethical standards. Attorney Henke has published over 30 articles in "Trial," "Forum," and "Advocate," the journals of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, the Consumer Attorneys Association of California, and the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles.
Mr. Henke obtained his Juris Doctorate degree from the University of San Francisco Law School in 1979, served on the USF Law Review, and interned with the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
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E Coli Lawyers and HUS Attorneys Nick Allis of the Law Office of Nicholas Allis Discuss the Ecoli and HUS Litigation, And The Advantages of Filing Suit in California even though the California grown spinach may have been consumed in Wisconsin or Ohio or New York, Utah, Nebraska, Pennsylvania or any other State.
As an E. coli lawyer and HUS attorney, Nick Allis will prosecute food poisoning litigation in any state of the Country with the permission of the state Courts, but he considers that there are a great number of important advantages to filing the in California each and every one of the Ecoli cases which have arisen nationwide as the result of the spinach E coli outbreak.
First of all, the spinach was grown in California and all of it distributed by the principle California distributor, Natural Selection Foods, LLC, of San Juan Bautista, California, so the principle target defendants responsible for the E coli outbreak are located here in California. California is thus the most appropriate jurisdiction in which to file the litigation regardless of the fact that the California spinach may have been consumed in Wisconsin or Ohio or Utah or New York or Nebraska or Pennsylvania, and regardless of the fact that the E. coli illness may have been suffered in a state other than California.
Furthermore, by far the largest part of the most important "discovery" will need to be done here in California. "Discovery" involves the various means by which E coli and HUS lawyers establish the facts essential to the prosecution of the defendants, including the California growers, the principle distributor, and, as well, much of the discovery essential to the liability cases against secondary distributors and retailers. The most important discovery will involve the extensive depositions of the growers and their employees to elicit the evidence of their negligence and the explanation with regard to how the spinach came to be contaminated. It is likely that it will be found that accepted practices were violated by the growers and/or principle distributor to have resulted in the contamination and distribution of the infected spinach. This discovery will also permit the E. coli lawyers to find out when the California growers and principle distributor first became aware that their spinach was contaminated and if and when they first secondary distributors and retailers. This is important in order to judge whether they were additionally negligent in following through to minimize the scope of the outbreak. Indeed punitive damages are available under California law and if the legal elements of the claim can be established, substantial damages “to set an example” of the growers and possibly the principle and secondary distributors also may be elicited in this discovery. Legal history is filled with examples of "the smoking gun" admissions elicited in discovery, and the central point for this discovery will be the information shared and the decisions made by and between the California growers, the California principle distributor, the secondary distributors and then the retailers.. Legal history is also replete with examples of punitive damage liability established specifically in this way, potentially providing the victims of this E coli outbreak the opportunity for much larger monetary recoveries. The vast majority of this discovery on general liability and punitive liability theory will need to be conducted here in California and California E. coli lawyers are in the best position to do it competently, according to California law, in cases in which the Judges who order the discovery are the judges responsible for the litigation. The discovery is also capable of being conducted much more efficiently and much less expensively by California lawyers than it could be accomplished by out of state lawyers.
It is the general conventional wisdom among lawyers in other states that California "has good juries" from the injured plaintiff's standpoint. What we would say is that our Northern California Counties are all "liberal" counties in which we consider that this litigation would be welcome and in which the jurors would be as likely as anywhere to fairly and justly compensate the victims of this outbreak.
We consider that California has very good state law which will form most of the legal theories upon which we will prosecute these civil Ecoli and HUS cases, including very favorable state appellate court decisions which define the law which will control these cases. E coli lawyer Mr. Allis is specifically knowledgeable about the particular California law and appellate decisions which will aid in the prosecution of these cases having extensively appeared in our California courts specifically in the context of the prosecution E coli and HUS litigation.
Mr. Allis has also already assembled all of the most highly respected E. coli and HUS experts essential to properly presenting these cases both on the issues of liability and on the issue of "causation," as well as a team of experts to work up and present at trial the various elements of damages suffered by E coli and HUS plaintiffs.
It doesn't matter what state the contaminated spinach was ingested or where the illness occurred, every E coli case resulting from this August/Septermber 2006 Ecoli outbreak can and should be filed in the State of California.
We are please to provide Free E coli and HUS Attorney Consultations. If you will fill out the e-consultation form you will be contacted by E coli HUS Lawyer Mr. Allis. He will inquire about the facts of your case, and you may also ask Mr. Allis any questions you may have about the E coli litigation and HUS lawsuits, as well as any questions you may have with regard to his qualifications or about the desirability of filing your case in California, and any other questions you may have with regard to the E coli litigation.
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