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THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO LEGAL REPRESENTATION
2014 EDITION

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MORELLI ALTERS RATNER

CLASS ACTIONS, MASS TORTS, EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION, COMMERCIAL LITIGATION, PERSONAL INJURY

LEGAL LEADERS

BENEDICT P. MORELLI

From left: Benedict Morelli,
Jeremy Alters, David Ratner

WHETHER LITIGATING AGAINST THE WORLD’S
they deserve. The firm’s practice is national in scope, with litigation from
largest pharmaceutical companies because they sold defective drugs injuring New York to California. For example, the firm is currently handling cases
tens of thousands of people;
against Pfizer in Alabama over the drug Chantix, as well as cases in Texas
or standing up for women who are harassed and discriminated against in the and New Jersey against Johnson & Johnson and other manufacturers over

workplace; or representing the victims of defective products and medical defective metal-on-metal hip implants. The firm also has filed cases in
negligence; or representing consumers who are defrauded as a result of Florida, New York, and New Jersey against companies that sell and install
false and deceptive advertising, the lawyers of Morelli Alters Ratner LLP spray polyurethane foam insulation, which has been shown to cause health
combine their aggressive desire for justice with their compassion for their and property damage.
clients in order to achieve the maximum recovery possible both in and out
“IN OTHER WORDS, WE WILL TAKE ON INDUSTRY
of the courtroom.
giants to help our clients,” notes David Ratner, the firm’s managing partner.
WITH OFFICES IN BOTH NEW YORK CITY AND
“And it is because of our acknowledged ability to present cases to juries that

Miami Beach, Florida, the firm combines the wisdom that comes with age we have been
and experience with the vitality that comes from youthful exuberance.
given leadership roles in many of these cases by
judicial appointment.”
BENEDICT P. MORELLI AND DAVID S. RATNER
have over seventy years of hands on trial experience between them. They MORELLI ALTERS RATNER’S OFFICE IN THE TRENDY
have litigated against powerful corporations and prestigious law firms in Miami Design District is the hub of the firm’s class action litigation practice.
courts throughout the country. In 2011, Mr. Morelli led a trial team in Federal Jeremy Alters’s philosophy has been to always fight on behalf of innocent
Court in the Southern District of Illinois that secured
consumers, such as those who have been victimized by the predatory

a $95 million verdict on behalf of a young woman who
practices of banks. In 2012, he helped secure one of the largest
was the victim of sexual assault by her boss and whose complaints about his class action settlements against Bank of America for
harassing behavior went unheeded by the company. Not only was this the $410 million.
largest single sexual harassment victim verdict ever, but the verdict also sent
a message that Morelli Alters Ratner will fight to the end for its clients.
THE FIRM IS CURRENTLY LITIGATING CLASS ACTIONS
against Red Bull, KIND Bar, several banks for their overdraft practices,
“TRYING CASES IS A LOST ART, BECAUSE OUR
L’Oreal, and Dial Soap.
world is based more on mediation and arbitration than litigation,” says
IN ADDITION THE FIRM CONTINUES TO BE IN THE
founding partner Benedict Morelli, a past-President of the New York State forefront of several mass torts including TransVaginal Mesh, Propecia,
Trial Lawyers Association who has been selected for inclusion in The Best Testosterone Replacement therapy, and metal on metal hips.
Lawyers
in America annually since 1995. “But our firm has been established to handle FINALLY THE FIRM IS EXTREMELY PROUD OF THE
cases from start to finish. In fact,
work it did on behalf of Kevin Dwyer, a cystic fibrosis sufferer who was
it’s our trial experience that has allowed us to litigate important cases against
denied coverage for a costly life-saving drug by his health insurer. “We
substantial opponents, and,
secured him coverage, the drug worked, and we saved his life,” Ratner said.
in the process, help victims of corporate America’s negligence, misfeasance “What could be better than that?”
and malfeasance.”
950 THIRD AVENUE, 11TH FLOOR, NEW YORK, NY 10022
THE TEAM AT MORELLI ALTERS RATNER LLP IS
PH: 877.751.9800; 212.751.9800 | FAX: 212.751.0046
dedicated to enforcing its clients’ rights and securing for them the justice
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