Southern District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein has appointed Kreindler Partner Noah H. Kushlefsky Special Counsel to resolve a conflict of interest in the World Trade Center Disaster Site Litigation.
In an order, Judge Hellerstein concluded that the attorneys representing a group of 59 plaintiffs who had previously made claims to the Victim Compensation Fund had a conflict because they removed the group from the eligible plaintiffs' list for the 2010 settlement, a deal that calls for upwards of $700 million in payouts to those who responded after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, and cleaned up the site.
Read copy of New York Law Journal article.
Read copy of Judge's order.
