GM Customer Lawyers Jostle for Roles in Ignition-Switch Suits – Bloomberg
By Linda Sandler, Margaret Cronin Fisk and Patrick G. Lee
Berman, Cabraser and Robinson, if appointed, will share leadership with a 10-member executive committee. They recommended a panel including David Boies of Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP in New York; Joseph F. Rice of Motley Rice in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina; and Lance Cooper of the Cooper Firm in Marietta, Georgia.
Cooper spurred the GM recalls that accelerated the entire ignition debacle. He sued over the death of a 29-year-old woman killed when her 2005 Chevy Cobalt crashed. Cooper reopened that lawsuit in May, claiming the company fraudulently induced the woman’s parents to settle by withholding evidence of ignition-switch defects. A judge on Aug. 9 rejected GM’s bid to dismiss the new suit.