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Movers & Shakers
This month marks the beginning of a new feature in which LJN's Product Liability Law & Strategy expands its coverage to provide information about the advancement of lawyers in the product liability profession. If you have news that you would like to submit to this column, please send it via e-mail to [email protected] with a 'Product Liability Movers and Shakers' subject line.
Plaintiffs firm Seeger Weiss LLP, known recently for its $47.5 million jury verdict in a New Jersey Vioxx' case, has opened a Philadelphia office with three class action attorneys from Philadelphia plaintiffs firm Sheller P.C. Jonathan Shub will be resident partner of the Philadelphia office along with two associates, TerriAnne Benedetto and Scott Alan George.
Paul Clinton Harris Sr. recently joined the Washington, DC, office of Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. as a partner in its Government Enforcement and Compliance Group. Harris' career has combined in-house corporate, senior-level policy, political, and military experience. Before joining Shook, Hardy & Bacon, he was senior counsel and director of enterprise compliance at the Raytheon Company. Harris worked at the Department of Justice as a deputy assistant and deputy associate U.S. attorney general from 2001-2003. He served two terms in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1997 to 2001 after 13 years of decorated service with the U.S. Army and U.S. Army Reserve.
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