Cuneo Gilbert & LaDuca, LLP
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| Headquarters | Washington, D.C. |
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| No. of offices | 4 |
| No. of attorneys | 15 |
| Major practice areas | Class Action, Consumer Protection, Human Rights, and Antitrust Litigation |
| Key people | Jonathan Cuneo (Founding Partner), Pamela Gilbert, & Charles LaDuca |
| Date founded | 1986 (as Cuneo Law Group, PC) |
| Founder | Jonathan Cuneo |
| Company type | Limited Liability Partnership |
| Website | http://www.cuneolaw.com/index.php |
Cuneo Gilbert & LaDuca, LLP is a law firm with its principal office in Washington, D.C. and satellite offices in Alexandria, New York City, and Los Angeles. Jonathan Cuneo is the lead partner of the firm along with co-partners Pamela Gilbert and Charles LaDuca. The firm represents consumers, businesses, workers and governments through litigation, lobbying and public advocacy.
Landmark Cases
Cuneo Gilbert & LaDuca, LLP represents clients in a range of civil and legislative matters.
Civil and Human Rights
Strip Search Cases - CGL has served as counsel in over twenty cases challenging the blanket strip search practices of such municipalities as Phoenix, Philadelphia, San Antonio, Pittsburgh, Newark, Buffalo, Trenton, and Atlantic City.
Many of these cases reached multi-million dollar settlements.[1]
Hungarian Gold Train - CGL successfully represented Hungarian Holocaust Survivors seeking restitution and an accounting against the United States government in the Hungarian Gold Train case,[2] which was settled for $25.5 million in 2005 after nearly five years of litigation.[3] The settlement's terms also included an apology from the Bush Administration for the conduct of the U.S. Army.[4]
Consumer Protection
"Joe Camel" Case - CGL's predecessor firm, Cuneo Law Group, PC, served as Washington counsel in the first case to challenge the "Joe Camel" cigarette advertising campaign. The action was filed in California state court in 1991 well before the U.S. Attorney General began tobacco litigation. This litigation led to the release of important documents that revealed R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company had studied under-aged smokers with a view toward selling cigarettes and consequently induced youths to start smoking through targeted advertising.[5]
Corporate Governance
British Petroleum - For numerous disasters at British Petroleum (BP), CGL served as Washington counsel in BP P.L.C. Derivative Litigation, a successful stockholder derivative action against officers and directors of BP. The case alleged that defendants' misconduct resulted in various harms, including: major operating problems at the Prudhoe Bay Oil Field, which caused a large crude oil leak; unacceptably high numbers of accidents and injuries at BP's Texas City, Texas refinery, which culminated in a 2005 explosion that resulted in 15 deaths; and widespread illegal price manipulation and fixing in the propane market, which has become the subject of an investigation by the federal government. The suit was settled in 2008. As a result of the suit, BP instituted significant corporate governance changes.
Product Liability
Entran II - CGL represented homeowners whose Entran II radiant heating systems allegedly contained defective pipe, yielding a $346 million bi-national settlement, one of the largest product liability settlements in history. On November 17, 2004, New Jersey District Court Judge Stanley Chesler gave final approval of this settlement.[6]
Corporate and Financial Litigation
Enron - CGL served as Washington counsel for defrauded Enron investors from 2002 through 2008. This Enron Securities Litigation recovered over $7 billion, the largest in the history of federal securities litigation.[7] CGL Lawyers assisted the lead counsel in developing the theory of "scheme liability" and facilitated the filing of numerous amici briefs in support of this theory.
In Pop Culture
Cuneo Gilbert & LaDuca, LLP is a major sponsor of the NASCAR Late Model Sports Car driven by professional driver Mike Darne.[8] Darne competes at Old Dominion Speedway in Manassas, VA driving car #21, and at Hickory Motor Speedway in Hickory, NC driving car #99.
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References
- ^ Strip Search Cases and other Civil and Human rights litigation
- ^ The New York Times denounces the US's Gold Train defense
- ^ The Miami Herald reports the result of the Gold Train case
- ^ U.S. apologizes for military in WWII 'Gold Train' case
- ^ Tobacco History: Joe Camel Case
- ^ Entran II Hose Amended Class Action Settlement
- ^ cuneolaw.com writeup of Enron litigation
- ^ CGL Race Car