April 30, 2024
Goldberg Persky & White PC should not receive a cut of legal fees for its unsuccessful efforts to receive a settlement that another law firm later secured for a former National Football League player related to concussion-linked disability claims, a special master has said.
March 01, 2024
A Pennsylvania federal judge has rejected objections from a law firm and its principal and affirmed a special masters' determination that the attorney be censured for engaging in "questionable behavior" while trying to secure monetary awards for clients from the NFL players' concussion injury litigation settlement.
September 06, 2023
An Atlanta law firm representing an NFL player who eventually replaced it with another firm is entitled to half the original contingency fee agreed to from the outset of the litigation, a Pennsylvania federal judge has ruled.
August 01, 2023
A California firm that formerly represented a plaintiff in the NFL's concussion litigation will be shut out of receiving legal fees from a settlement with the league after a Pennsylvania federal judge decided Friday to back a federal magistrate judge's finding that the firm had no reasonable claim to funds.
April 19, 2022
Blocking Mitnick Law Firm's access to settlement money disbursed from the NFL concussion litigation would impede the firm's ability to process the payments and distribute awards to its clients, according to a recent filing in a federal lawsuit seeking to stop Mitnick from receiving fees from the litigation.
April 14, 2022
Litigation funder Balanced Bridge Funding LLC says Mitnick Law Office owes it more than $3 million in attorney fees from the NFL concussion settlement and asked a Pennsylvania federal court Thursday to freeze any additional fees likely to be paid out following the removal of controversial race norms in the settlement.
February 23, 2022
NFL concussion class counsel Chris Seeger of Seeger Weiss LLP, the NFL and two former players struck back at the allegation by a Goldberg Persky & White PC attorney that class counsel breached a fiduciary duty to the class in allowing the controversial use of race-norming to enter the settlement, saying it "ignores the critical fact that race-norming was never required by" the class action settlement.
February 16, 2022
A Goldberg Persky & White PC attorney representing former NFL players in the concussion settlement on Wednesday raised concerns with a release of claims against NFL concussion class counsel Chris Seeger of Seeger Weiss LLP included in an agreement to end the controversial use of race-based norms in the settlement, calling it a "crippling blow" to former players.
February 11, 2022
The NFL, concussion class counsel Chris Seeger of Seeger Weiss LLP and attorneys for players who filed suit over the controversial use of race-based norms in the concussion settlement said they have met with leaders of a group of roughly 75 former NFL players and spouses to address their concerns over transparency.
January 28, 2022
A pair of former Pittsburgh Steelers who brought the controversial use of so-called race-norming in the NFL concussion settlement to light with a civil rights lawsuit threw their support behind an agreement that lays out a path forward for the administration of the settlement without the use of race-based norms.