Multi-District Litigation

In the Synthroid Marketing Litigation, MDL No. 1182 (J.P.M.L., August 21, 1997) (co-lead counsel); Andrews Pharmaceutical Litigation Reporter (September 1997), pp.12449-51 (re settlement); 1998 WL 526556 (N.D. Ill. Aug. 17, 1998) (rejecting proposed $98 million consumer settlement); (Order of July 19, 1999) (certifying national class); (Order of August 4, 2000, approving settlement) ("Class counsel for the plaintiff classes and the representatives of the defendants are all experienced and highly competent . . . Class counsel has done a fine job in terms of a speedy and professional resolution of a major class action. Apart from the substantial award to the class members, there are two major benefits to class counsels' accomplishment: the Dong study has been released so that it may be evaluated to determine whether there are in fact bioequivalents for Synthroid, and, as a result of this litigation, the Food and Drug Administration has begun an analysis of the matter. This may result in a substantial savings to society at large of the cost of this medicine.")

In re Air Crash Disaster at Sioux City, Iowa on July 19, 1989,128 F.R.D. 131, MDL 817 (N.D. Ill.) (Member, Legal Research Committee)