An ABC News Reporter for World News Tonight interviewed Robert K. Jenner about the hormone therapy trial verdict where the jury awarded the plaintiffs over $134 million dollars. "I think pharmaceutical companies always look at the bottom line. Now, they have to look at the bottom line with their investors, because this is a verdict that hurts, and should hurt," he said.

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The nationwide class action, filed on Friday in the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri, maintains it aims to protect the rights of those consumers that have been affected by ConAgra's "carelessness".

Law firms Schiffrin Barroway Topaz & Kessler and Janet, Jenner & Suggs, which filed the suit against ConAgra, maintain that there has been an underreporting of illnesses, and that ConAgra put consumers at further risk by delaying a recall.

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As government scientists searched for the source of a multistate E. coli outbreak linked to frozen hamburgers, a class-action lawsuit was filed Wednesday against the producer of the patties and supermarkets that sold them.

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Lawyers filed a class-action lawsuit yesterday against a New Jersey meat company whose hamburgers were linked to a virulent strain of E. coli, prompting a huge recall.

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Baltimore, MD and Radnor, PA - Janet, Jenner & Suggs, LLC, of Baltimore, and Schiffrin Barroway Topaz & Kessler, LLC of Radnor, PA, today filed the first nationwide class action involving some 22 million pounds of ground beef suspected in an outbreak of a virulent strain of E-coli related illness in eight states over the weekend.

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Firm partner Ken Suggs was an invited speaker at the Appellate Judges Education Institute's 2007 Summit in Washington, D.C. held on September 27-30, 2007. Mr.Suggs joined Jeffrey M. Smith, Justice Mark Martin, Professor Alice Gresham Bullock, and Robert W. Hesselbacher, Jr. in the presentation, ��The Legal Malpractice Minefield'.

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Janet, Jenner & Suggs attorneys continue to be recognized as some of the nation's top lawyers.

Principals Howard Janet and Robert Jenner were named ��Maryland Super Lawyers��� for 2008. This is the second consecutive year they earned this recognition. Jenner was also named among the ��Top 50�� Super Lawyers� in Maryland.

In addition, Stephen Offutt, also a partner in the firm, was named to the 2008 Maryland Super Lawyers� list.

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The number of women joining the battle against Wyeth's Prempro drug has increased exponentially since March of 2003, when the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation consolidated and transferred the first five cases related to Wyeth's Prempro drug to the U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Arkansas. Wyeth now faces approximately 5,000 suits over Prempro, with women around the country filing lawsuits against the pharmaceutical giant alleging that the combination hormone therapy caused breast cancer.

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Prempro was approved as a hormone replacement therapy to treat menopause and prevent osteoporosis only. The wide-spread over-prescribing of the drug for other conditions was a result of Wyeth promoting the drug for off-label uses. Wyeth's massive off-label promotion of HRT has come back to haunt the drug giant. According to SEC filings, as of December 31, 2006, there were approximately 5,200 lawsuits pending against the company filed on behalf of approximately 8,400 women for injuries related to its HRT, with about 60% of the cases filed in federal courts and 40% in state courts.

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Diane Wisneski filed a lawsuit in 2004 against New Jersey-based drug manufacturer Wyeth, alleging the hormone-therapy drugs Prempro and Premarin she took for post-menopausal symptoms triggered her two breast cancer cases.

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Howard Janet and Robert Jenner named "Maryland Super Lawyers". Mr. Janet was honored for Plaintiff's Medical Malpractice. Mr. Jenner was honored for Class Action / Mass Torts.

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"You won't hear many tort reformers admit it. They've done too good a job demonizing trial lawyers to let their bogeymen fade away. Twenty years ago, tort reform was an obscure movement with a funny name; today, politicians speak of "ending lawsuit abuse" or "eliminating frivolous lawsuits"-tort reform by more felicitous names-whenever they need a failsafe applause line. " ... "Plaintiffs lawyers, accustomed to thinking of themselves as champions of the people, fighting big business on behalf of the little guy, seethed at the vulturous image tort reformers created for them, but didn't grasp its implications. They were, by their own admission, so slow to respond to what Robert Jenner of Janet, Jenner & Suggs calls "the ridiculous propaganda" of their opponents that they permitted the chamber of commerce and the American Tort Reform Association to co-opt the very language of the debate. "

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Thanks to a $15.5 million jury award, Minnesota taxpayers won't have to foot the bill for a lifetime of care for a child permanently disabled by birth injuries due to medical negligence, his lawyer said today.

��The economic burden will fall on those responsible for his condition, not on public health services, which often pick up the tab in catastrophic situations. This is not only justice for the child and his family, but for society as a whole,�� said Howard Janet, of Janet, Jenner & Suggs, LLP, Baltimore, MD.

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Janet, Jenner & Suggs LLC has awarded grants totaling $20,000 to two grass-roots cerebral palsy organizations as part of its Cerebral Palsy Awareness Grants Program.

��We wanted to give back to the cerebral palsy community in a way that would help further public education about prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cerebral palsy. Both organizations are doing this in unique ways,�� said Howard Janet, managing partner.

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"In the first state court case, the jury today found that plaintiff's use of Wyeth's hormone therapy Prempro was a cause of her breast cancer and awarded Jennie Nelson, age 67, $1.5 million in compensatory damages. The case will continue to a second, or liability, phase following today's jury decision in Jennie Nelson v. Wyeth, in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas.

Ken Suggs of Janet, Jenner & Suggs, LLC, co-counsel representing Mrs. Nelson commented, ��We are very pleased with the jury's verdict in Phase I. Clearly, the medical evidence overwhelmingly showed that Wyeth's drug Prempro caused Jennie Nelson's breast cancer, which required years of medical treatment and undue suffering for Mrs. Nelson and her family."

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"Charles Bradley was temporarily down on his luck last Saturday, his payday postponed, so he walked five miles for a hot dog and some human kindness.

Bradley's stop under the blue tent in a downtown law firm's parking lot was his first. But for others �� the chronically homeless, the permanently out-of-work �� the every Saturday hot dog lunch is a weekly lifeline.

'Being here allows them to know somebody cares,' said C.J. Bilka, who dreamed up the hot dog program and established His Hands Ministry, a 501-3C nonprofit, to facilitate his vision. 'To us they are our friends. We treat them as friends.' "

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Ken Suggs of Janet, Jenner & Suggs, LLC and Immediate Past President of the American Association for Justice, has been awarded "Advocate of the Year" by the South Carolina Appleseed Legal Justice Center.

SCALJC is a non-profit organization dedicated to advocacy for low income people in South Carolina. Their mission is to effect systemic change by acting in and through the courts, legislature, administrative agencies, community and the media, and helping others do the same through education, training and co-counseling.

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Janet, Jenner & Suggs expanding practice to include business-to-business litigation. ��We are frequently tangling with major corporations, whether it's in the health care industry [or] the pharmaceutical industry,�� said Howard Janet, adding that this has provided the firm with ��a lot of experience and expertise in going up against formidable opponents.��

Kenneth M. Suggs, this year's president of the American Association for Justice, will head the business litigation practice, the firm announced.

The new practice will take on contract and bidding disputes as well as fraud, among other things. And Janet said that businesses will realize many advantages in hiring a ��plaintiff firm�� to represent them.

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"Lawsuits are ordinary Americans' last resort"

Ken Suggs takes The Examiner (Washington) to task for its "frivolous argument" linking the war on terrorism, American values and lawsuits. In his opinion piece, Mr. Suggs says:

"The Examiner has a frivolous argument when it somehow manages to work the war on terrorism into a screed against lawsuits and the civil justice system.

The civil justice system is the embodiment of American values such as responsibility, fairness and a level playing field... it is also the last resort for ordinary Americans to hold corporate CEOs accountable when they put profits before human life."

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On October 25, 2005, Christian Mester represented the plaintiffs' perspective as co-lecturer at a day long seminar entitled The Experienced Practitioner's Guide to Achieving Favorable Personal Injury Settlements in Maryland, which focused on advanced personal injury practice and tips for Maryland attorneys and paralegals.

South Carolina's largest newspaper, The State, recently reported on the rising importance of South Carolina in the legal community. Two Columbia lawyers, David Dukes, 47, and Ken Suggs, 59, become presidents of the Defense Research Institute and the American Association for Justice, respectively, both of whom, though having similarities, have opposing viewpoints on tort reform.

The State reports, "The two men climbed to the top of their industry after years of trying cases all over the nation, and working in other executive positions in the industry organizations they now lead."

" 'It's an interesting confluence of events,' said Suggs, who leads the Columbia office of Baltimore's Janet, Jenner & Suggs law firm. 'We're both from South Carolina; both from the same law school, University of South Carolina; both graduated from Clemson (as undergraduates).' Dukes, managing partner at the Midlands' largest law firm, Nelson, Mullins, Riley & Scarborough, said that 'for many people outside South Carolina, there could be a question of why South Carolina should have this national prominence.' "

South Carolina's largest newspaper, The State, recently published an editorial by Ken Suggs concerning the safety of Vioxx, Merck's response, and the hazards the drug poses to the public.

"David Graham, a scientist at the Food and Drug Administration, has estimated that Vioxx contributed to the deaths of as many as 55,000 Americans.

Documents revealed in the Vioxx trial show that Merck was aware of the cardiac risks of Vioxx as early as 1997. The company's top scientist stated in March 2000 that a clinical trial of Vioxx confirmed that the drug had heart risks. In fact, this clinical trial showed that the drug caused five times as many heart attacks as another pain relief drug. Merck executives ignored an FDA request to add a warning label to Vioxx for four months, because they calculated they could make an extra $229 million by waiting."

Mr. Suggs, president of the American Association for Justice, is a partner in the law firm of Janet Jenner & Suggs.

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Covering the damages and aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, The AAJnta Journal-Constitution recently published an article focusing on the crippling effects on the legal community.

"From banks to barbershops, Katrina shut down an untold number of businesses in her path. With them is the whiplashed legal community in New Orleans, now scattered like so many papers in the wind, leaving thousands of attorneys --- and their clients nationwide --- in the lurch."

The effects are widespread including flooded courthouses, displaced law offices, missing employees, lost paperwork, delayed trials, computer failures, and other serious concerns that have paralyzed the legal community.

"People think lawyers only deal in lawsuits, but most lawyers, especially the small firms, do a whole range of services including tax work, real estate, financial transactions --- all the things that help people move along in their everyday lives," said Ken Suggs, president of the American Association for Justice.

"When people eventually come back to New Orleans, I'm afraid there's going to be a whole infrastructure that's going to be gone."

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Jury awards record verdict for child's cerebral palsy caused by brain injury sustained during birth.

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The Medlaw Legal Team is proud to announce that Robert K. Jenner has been selected by his peers to be included in the 2006 edition of The Best Lawyers in America.

Best Lawyers is widely regarded by both the profession and the public as the definitive guide to legal excellence in the United States. Best Lawyers has been featured in The New York Times, Forbes, and The Washington Post, and is the basis of more than 50 ��best lawyers�� features in regional newspapers and magazines. More than 18,500 leading attorneys throughout the country cast more than a million votes on the legal abilities of their colleagues.

Rob Jenner is a national leader in the fight against manufacturers of dangerous pharmaceutical drugs and defective medical products. His pharmaceutical team within the firm in now working extensively on Hormone Therapy, Vioxx, Guidant and Medtronic defibrillators and pacemakers, and , among others.

� Board Certified OB/GYN Physician-Attorney

� Registered Nurse Lawyers

� Registered Nurse Paralegals, including a former labor and delivery nurse.

� Attorneys with combined experience of more than 150 years in medical malpractice and pharmaceutical negligence.

� Access to nationally known expert physicians.