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Kazan Law Featured on the San Francisco Business Times’ 2022 Bay Area Top 100 Corporate Philanthropists List

Kazan Law was ranked as a top bay area corporate philanthropist by San Francisco Business Times; ranked by local cash giving in 2021.  The ranking was announced the morning of July 28, 2022 in a special publication in the San Francisco Business Times.     Oakland, California — August 3, 2022 – Kazan Law announced today […]

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Eight Kazan Law Attorneys Named to 2022 Super Lawyers and Rising Stars Lists

Kazan Law is proud to announce that all seven of its partners, Steven Kazan, David McClain, Joseph Satterley, Gordon Greenwood, Denyse Clancy, John Langdoc and Justin Bosl, have been selected as 2022 Top Rated Super Lawyers. Steven and David have each been recognized as Super Lawyers for nineteen consecutive years. Joseph has been recognized as […]

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Kazan Law Wins a $26.5 Million Verdict in Johnson & Johnson Talc Baby Powder Lawsuit

A California jury awarded over $26.5 million in damages to Christina Prudencio on claims that the multi-billion dollar company, Johnson & Johnson, ignored warnings that its popular talc baby powder contained asbestos. The 35-year-old plaintiff is represented by Joseph Satterley and Ian Rivamonte of Kazan Law and suffers from terminal mesothelioma, which is a type […]

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Kazan Law Is Proud to Sponsor the 2021 International Mesothelioma Interest Group (iMig) Conference

Kazan, McClain, Satterley & Greenwood, A Professional Law Corporation, is pleased to announce its Gold sponsorship of this year’s International Mesothelioma Interest Group (iMig) 15th Biennial Conference, which will be virtual this year, from May 7-9, 2021.  iMig is an independent group of scientists and clinicians working to understand, cure, and prevent mesothelioma, a cancer […]

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Kazan Law Partners Announce the Merger of Berkeley Law Foundation With the Allen E. Broussard Scholarship Foundation and the Launching of the Broussard-Phoenix Fellowship Program

Steven Kazan, President of the Allen E. Broussard Scholarship Foundation, and Board Members Gordon Greenwood and Justin Bosl, are happy to announce that the Allen E. Broussard Scholarship Foundation has joined with Berkeley Law Foundation to establish the Allen E. Broussard Phoenix Fellowship Program.  The Broussard Foundation board unanimously decided that all its funds will […]

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Kazan Law Proud to Sponsor the 2020 Alameda County Phillip A. Harley Memorial Mock Trial Competition

Congratulations to American High School in Fremont for winning this year’s Alameda County Philip A. Harley Memorial Mock Trial Competition. We are very proud to continue to sponsor this meaningful competition in memory of our dear friend and partner Philip A. Harley (1947-2009). The Alameda County Philip A. Harley Memorial Mock Trial Competition is an […]

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Asbestos Recall Issued for 33,000 Bottles of Johnson & Johnson Baby Powder

Johnson & Johnson’s baby powder took yet another hit recently amid concerns over asbestos contamination. On October 18, 2019, Johnson & Johnson issued a recall of over 30,000 bottles of their baby powder in the United States due to asbestos contamination.   FDA Discovers Asbestos in Johnson & Johnson Baby Powder Sample This recent recall […]

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Kazan Law Wins $12 Million in Compensatory Damages Against J&J and Colgate in Talc Trial

Earlier this year, Denyse Clancy and Joseph D. Satterley, partners at Kazan Law, secured $12 million in compensatory damages on behalf of Patricia Schmitz in a jury trial against Johnson & Johnson and Colgate-Palmolive. Schmitz has mesothelioma, a rare type of cancer that only occurs after a person has been exposed to asbestos, and the […]

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Kazan Firm Wins $29.5 Million Mesothelioma Verdict Against Johnson & Johnson

Paralleling a similar verdict won in April of 2018, a California jury recently awarded clients of Kazan Law  damages totaling $29.5 million. The landmark verdict represents compensatory damages that Kazan clients Teresa Leavitt and her husband, Dean McElroy, suffered as a result of the mesothelioma Mrs. Leavitt contracted from exposure to the asbestos in Johnson’s […]

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More Bad News for J&J as It Gets Hit with Federal Subpoenas from SEC and DOJ

The bad news just keeps coming for Johnson & Johnson. As we blogged about in January, in late 2018, Reuters issued a report that alleged that internal documents uncovered in the course of litigation indicate that Johnson & Johnson was aware of the fact that its talc contained asbestos for several decades. In late February, […]

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