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Today, I am proud to have served as negotiator for another historic tobacco-related settlement – a $100 million aggregate settlement with Lorillard Tobacco Company, Philip Morris USA, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, for hundreds of individual smokers that are part of the Engle-progeny tobacco cases.

Despite GM’s legal maneuvering before the bankruptcy court, the truth about when they knew what they knew – and how they concealed it – will come out. It always does.

Motley Rice is proud to announce that The National Trial Lawyers and the organization's flagship publication, The Trial Lawyer magazine, inducted co-founder Ron Motley into The Trial Lawyer 2012 Hall of Fame.

Motley Rice LLC is proud to announce that it has again been included in both the ISS's 2011 Securities Class Action Services' (SCAS) list of its "top 50 plaintiffs' law firms" and The Legal 500 United States 2012 edition.

Motley Rice announces that lawyer and founding member Ronald L. Motley was named the 2010 recipient of the American Association for Justice's Lifetime Achievement Award, its most distinguished honor, in recognition of his extraordinary contributions to the legal profession and demonstrated commitment to the…

Motley Rice is pleased to announce that the New England Super Lawyers list has selected trial lawyers Bob McConnell, Don Migliori, Bill Narwold and Fidelma Fitzpatrick for inclusion in its 2010 edition.

Donald A. Migliori and Michael E. Elsner, both members of Motley Rice LLC, were recently named to the 2010 annual Lawdragon™ 3,000 Guide to the Leading Lawyers in America for their "exceptional, esteemed contributions to the practice of law."

Last week, the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Committee on Homeland Security released its findings from a year-long investigation into HSBC, stating that HSBC had "exposed the U.S. financial system to a wide array of money laundering, drug trafficking, and terrorist financing risks due to poor…

Motley Rice is proud to announce that attorney Anne Kearse was elected to serve on the Executive Committee of the Public Justice Foundation.

On Aug. 2, 2012, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued an opinion marking the first time a circuit court has held that an underbid can be the basis for liability in a False Claims Act (FCA) lawsuit.