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Firefighters are some of the bravest among us and uphold a vow to protect the public. They don’t think twice about stepping into harm’s way to save a life, whether by extinguishing a fire or intervening in other instances of distress. They are the first responders and our heroes.

A class of U.S. tax return preparers, represented by Motley Rice LLC and co-counsel, received a favorable and precedent-setting decision on June 1, 2017, when U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth struck down a Preparer Tax Identification Numbers (PTIN) fee that the Treasury Department and IRS had for years required…

The Institutional Shareholder Services has released its 2016 Securities Class Action Services Top 50 Report for 2016. For being lead or co-lead in securities class action settlements, Motley Rice ranked 13 out of 50 related to “settlement total.”

Shareholder activism is one important way in which shareholders can influence a corporation’s behavior by exercising their rights as owners. Shareholder activism refers to shareholders who are engaged in holding companies accountable through securities litigation.

We are honored to announce that multiple Motley Rice attorneys in our South Carolina and West Virginia offices were honored as 2017 Super Lawyers® and Rising Stars.

The husband of Nida Fatin Binti Mat Asis filed a wrongful death suit, one year after metal shrapnel from a defective Takata airbag allegedly struck her during a one car accident. The accident tragically claimed her life in what otherwise should have been a minor collision with minimal injuries.

A wrongful death suit has been filed on behalf of the widow of 63-year-old Alton Ray Zeigler, a Richland County husband, father and grandfather tragically killed during a violent explosion Dec. 6, 2016 at a South Carolina branch of Eastman Chemical Company.

Motley Rice filed a wrongful death suit against the U.S. government in the wake of the mid-air collision that tragically claimed the lives of 68-year-old Michael Johnson and his 30-year-old son Joseph Johnson minutes after the pair departed Berkeley County Airport.

The Environmental Protection Agency released its preliminary risk review of asbestos on Tuesday, February 14, 2017. While the final report has yet to be published, I believe this is a great signifier that the TSCA task team is prioritizing asbestos.

The Supreme Court granted the petition for a writ of certiorari filed on behalf of approximately 6,000 persons injured or family members of people killed in terrorist attacks between January 1995 and July 2005 against Jordan-based Arab Bank PLC.