Archive for the ‘Recognition & Awards’ Category

Janssen Malloy LLP partners, W. Timothy Needham, Michael J. Crowley, Patrik Griego and Amelia F. Burroughs have been nominated by Consumer Attorneys of California for the organization’s Consumer Attorney of the Year Award.  The nomination arises from the firm’s handling of the seminal jury verdict case of 2010, Lavender vs. Skilled Healthcare LLC.  The Janssen Law Firm, along with co-counsel Michael Thamer and Christopher Healey, obtained the largest jury verdict in the United States in 2010, $677 million dollars.  The case had a significant impact on the healthcare industry, specifically the skilled nursing facilities throughout the nation.

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Janssen Malloy is pleased to announce that Amelia F. Burroughs has become a partner in the firm.  Born and raised in Humboldt County, Ms. Burroughs was recently selected by Super Lawyers Magazine as a 2011 Northern California Rising Star.  Notably, Ms. Burroughs was part of the trial team for the plaintiffs in the Lavender v. Skilled Healthcare class action litigation, which resulted in the largest jury verdict ever awarded in Humboldt County ($677 million dollars).  Ms. Burroughs is an experienced litigator who graduated at the top of her law school class and served as Editor-in-Chief of the McGeorge Law Review (2001 – 2002).  Ms. Burroughs joined the firm in 2007 after practicing in the San Francisco and San Diego areas for five years.  She is currently the Secretary of the Humboldt County Bar Association.

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News Release – For Immediate Release

June 21, 2011

Contact: Deborah Mathis, Communications Director – (202) 797-8600 or dmathis@publicjustice.net

Six California Lawyers Who Won Historic Verdict for Nursing Home Residents Are Finalists for Trial Lawyer of the Year Award

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The Janssen Law Firm is pleased to announce that Megan A. Yarnall has joined the firm as an associate.

Born and raised in Humboldt County, Ms. Yarnall received her B.S. with distinction from Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, CA where she majored in Chemistry and Environmental Studies.  Megan is a 2010 graduate of the University of Oregon School of Law (J.D., Order of the Coif) where she served as an associate editor of the Oregon Law Review and the Western Environmental Law update, a publication produced annually in conjunction with the Public Interest Environmental Law Conference.  While attending the University of Oregon, she authored an article titled “Dueling Scientific Experts: Is Australia’s Hot Tub Method a Viable Solution for the US Judiciary?” 88 Oregon Law Review 311 (2009).  Prior to joining The Janssen Law Firm, Ms. Yarnall completed legal internships at Kolisch Hartwell, P.C. in Portland, OR and with the U.S. Department of Justice Environment and Natural Resources Division in Sacramento, CA.

Ms Yarnall is a member of the California State Bar Association and the Humboldt County Bar Association.  She has also recently taken the Oregon State Bar examination and is awaiting the results.

Janssen Law Firm partners Michael J. Crowley and W. Timothy Needham have been recognized by California Lawyer Magazine as California Lawyer attorneys of the year, recognizing their significant trial result in the Lavender v. Skilled Healthcare nursing home understaffing class-action case.  This case was tried to verdict in Humboldt County Superior Court after a six month trial, and resulted in a $677 million verdict against Skilled Healthcare for statutory violations of the state’s minimum nurse staffing requirements.  This is believed to the largest jury verdict in the nursing home context in the state’s history, and was among the top jury verdicts in the United States for 2010, in any field.

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Patrik Griego of the Eureka firm of Janssen, Malloy, Needham, Morrison, Reinholtsen, Crowley & Griego, LLP has been selected as Consumer Attorneys of California’s (“CAOC”) Street Fighter of the Year.  The award winner was announced at CAOC’s 48th Annual Convention Saturday in San Francisco.  The achievement was recognized by the California State Senate, who issued a declaration of recognition and presented it to Mr. Griego of the Janssen Law Firm.

Eureka Personal Injury Lawyer Griego was honored for his work in Beals v. Sun Valley Floral Farms, et al.   He took a case that several lawyers had turned down because of the relatively small amount of money at stake in the claims. He also had the challenge of representing a client base that included many who were transient, did not speak English and were undocumented.

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Consumer Attorneys of California (“CAOC”) have selected  Janssen Law Firm Lawyer  Patrik Griego as a finalist for 2009 Street Fighter of the Year.

The Janssen Firm is proud to announce that throughout the entire state of California,  Patrik Griego has been selected as 1 of only 7 finalists for this prestigious award.  The finalists will be honored, and the winner announced, during an award ceremony on November 14, 2009 in San Francisco at the Fairmont Hotel.

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THE RECORDER  recognizes the Janssen Law Firm’s successful defense of Pacific Gas & Electric Company in Humboldt Country personal injury lawsuit arising out of injury in Ferndale.

On September 29, 2009, THE RECORDER highlighted the Janssen Firm’s recent success in defending Pacific Gas & Electric Company against a personal injury lawsuit involving an electrical contact injury with the following article:

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California Lawyer magazine announces Patrik Griego as the winner of the 2009 Clay Award in Employment Law.

California Lawyer magazine

After logging more than 600 hours, Griego secured a significant award to compensate a class of about 1,000 rural workers who had bunched and wrapped tulips for market but were misclassified as exempt from overtime pay. Other lawyers had turned down the case, citing the relatively small amount of money at stake in the claims for minimum wages—along with difficulties in representing the clients, most of whom were transient and did not speak English, and many of whom were undocumented. “Every hour of overtime represented $7 a day that they didn’t get,” says Griego. “To many people, that wouldn’t matter much. But for them, it made a big difference.”