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Speaking at the Law School last night on the subject of "ambulance chasers," controversial trial attorney Marvin M. Belli defended large personal injury suits as serving the interests of "the little...
Calling today the "golden age of law for the little guy," Belli praised law firms specializing in lucrative liability cases as champions of the public against big corporations...
Commenting on the Bhopal case, Belli said he expected to win a $1 billion award from Union Carbide Co. on behalf of 22,000 clients. Thousands of people were killed or injured in the Indian village when deadly gas leaked from a Union Carbide plant earlier this year...
During the unseemly scramble among American lawyers to sign up victims of the gas-leak disaster in Bhopal, India, the headlines were studded with the likes of San Francisco's Melvin Belli. But in a Manhattan federal court last week, when the government of India filed what could be the most significant of the Bhopal lawsuits, it was represented by a law firm that had not even sped to the scene. Its name draws a blank among nonlawyers: Robins, Zelle, Larson & Kaplan of Minneapolis. The choice, however, was no surprise to many in the legal profession. In the arcane field...
...dollars. Last week a panel of federal judges in Washington ordered that 18 separate cases against Union Carbide be combined into one suit and said that * it would be assigned to the U.S. District Court in Manhattan. Pretrial hearings could start as early as next month. Attorney Melvin Belli, who is suing Union Carbide for $15 billion in the name of several victims, predicted that the suits could be settled by the end of the year...