Keller Rohrback L.L.P., a leading law firm headquartered in Seattle and known for its dedication to legal excellence and providing unparalleled representation, announces its move to a newly updated and modern suite of offices on the 34th Floor of the 1201 Third Avenue Building.
The QLaw Association held its 19th Annual Banquet on May 30, 2024 at the Bell Harbor International Conference Center, and Keller Rohrback was a proud sponsor of the event.
KR is fortunate to have seven promising Summer associates joining us this season from a diverse array of backgrounds and experiences. Let's meet the first four who have already started their KR journey: Yobi Tiezazu, Maggy Mulhern, Ananya Raghavan, and Natalia Brown!
For the second year running, Lawdragon has recognized six Keller Rohrback attorneys, Managing Partner, Lynn Lincoln Sarko and partners Gretchen Freeman Cappio, Alison Chase, David Ko, Cari Campen Laufenberg and Derek Loeser, to appear in its 500 Leading Plaintiff Financial Lawyers guide.
Keller Rohrback is proud to announce that the firm has once more been named to Law360’s select list of Practice Groups of the Year. In the awards’ 14th year, the admission range for case achievements was from October 1, 2022 to October 6, 2023, and for Keller Rohrback included successes in both the Class Action and Environmental practice area categories. Law360 is the country’s foremost online publication site for legal news and analysis, and the Practice Groups of the Year awards “honor the attorney teams behind litigation wins and major deals that resonated through the legal industry.”
A jury in Portland, Oregon awarded approximately $84 million in compensation from PacifiCorp to nine survivors of the fires that swept across Oregon on Labor Day 2020. The verdict, which consisted of $6 million in economic and $56 million in non-economic damages, translates to an award of more than $84 million after the doubling of economic damages and the addition of punitive damages of 25% that are automatically applied given the jury’s verdict in the first Phase of the case. This verdict is the first trial exclusively on individuals’ damages after a historic class action verdict last year that established that PacifiCorp, a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, was liable to the entire class for causing the devastating fires. It is the second jury verdict awarding damages to injured class members, and maintains a trajectory which, according to PacifiCorp, represents more than $25 billion in total damages to the class.
On August 18, 2023, the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation ordered this case and a number of related cases to be transferred to the District of New Jersey for coordinated proceedings. On December 6, 2023, Keller Rohrback partner David Ko was appointed to the Executive Committee for the Self-Funded Payer Track of the MDL In Re Insulin Pricing Litigation.
Keller Rohrback is pleased to announce that Portland Associate Sarah Osborn has earned the Oregon New Lawyers Division's (ONLD) 2023 Member Services Award. Each year, the ONLD honors one of its members for contributions to the Division membership and mission, which is expressed as assisting new lawyers with the transition to practicing law in Oregon and helping them align with the mission, functions, and values of the Oregon State Bar.
On October 10, 2023, District Court Judge Vince Chhabria, issued an order granting final approval of the $725 million class action settlement in In re: Facebook, Inc. Consumer Privacy User Profile Litigation. No. 3:18-md-02843-VC. The settlement represents the largest recovery ever achieved in a data privacy class action and the most Facebook has ever paid to resolve a private class action. Once the appeal period has run, the order paves the way for the Settlement Administrator, Angeion Group, to begin distributing payments to the millions of class members who filed claims.
Keller Rohrback is proud to recognize its Juul Labs litigation team for securing Final Approval of the Juul Nationwide Class Action Settlement, which was approved on September 19, 2023. This order was the last remaining hurdle before the Government Entity, Personal Injury, and Class Action settlements could be funded.
