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Jan 15, 2025 | 
cohenmilstein.com | Benjamin Brown |Agnieszka Fryszman |Leslie Mitchell Kroeger |Laura Posner
Lawdragon has named seven Cohen Milstein attorneys Leading Lawyers in America.
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
cohenmilstein.com | Robert W. Cobbs |Agnieszka Fryszman |Nicholas J. Jacques |Leslie Mitchell Kroeger
Each year, Public Justice is proud to present its Trial Lawyer of the Year Award to the trial attorney or legal team who made the greatest contribution to the public interest within the past year by trying or settling a socially significant case. This year’s winner is the legal team for John Doe I v. Exxon Mobil Corp. The award was given at the 42nd annual Public Justice Gala and Awards Dinner, held on July 22, 2024, at the Four Seasons in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Jul 24, 2024 | 
cohenmilstein.com | Agnieszka Fryszman
On July 22, Public Justice announced the winner of its Trial Lawyer of the Year Award at the 42nd Annual Public Justice Gala & Awards Presentation at the Four Seasons Hotel in Nashville. We are delighted to share that Agnieszka Fryszman, chair of our Human Rights practice, and her small but dedicated team won Public Justice’s 2024 Trial Lawyer of the Year Award for their achievement in Doe I, et al, v. ExxonMobil Corporation (D.D.C.).
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Jun 21, 2024 | 
cohenmilstein.com | Agnieszka Fryszman |Leslie Mitchell Kroeger
Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley PA, EarthRights International, Conrad & Scherer LLP, Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC, International Rights Advocates and several individual attorneys triumphed June 10 after a Florida federal jury ordered Chiquita to pay $38.3 million over its funding of right-wing paramilitaries in Colombia’s banana-producing region.
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Jun 12, 2024 | 
cohenmilstein.com | Agnieszka Fryszman
First-of-its kind verdict followed two decades of litigationVictim families relied on ancient English theory to bring caseA landmark $38.3 million jury verdict against Chiquita—the first in an American court to hold a US corporation liable over international human rights violations—raises the specter of billions of dollars in liability for the company and a broader warning for global business titans, attorneys for the plaintiffs say.
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
cohenmilstein.com | Agnieszka Fryszman
A South Florida jury found the company liable for killings committed by a paramilitary group that was on the banana producer’s payroll. The jury on Monday ordered the multinational banana producer to pay $38.3 million to 16 family members of farmers and other civilians who were killed in separate episodes by the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia — a right-wing paramilitary group that Chiquita bankrolled from 1997 to 2004.
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
cohenmilstein.com | Agnieszka Fryszman |Leslie Mitchell Kroeger
A court in the United States has found multinational fruit company Chiquita Brands International liable for financing a Colombian paramilitary group. The group, the United Self-Defence Forces of Colombia (AUC), was designated by the US as a terrorist organisation at the time. The AUC engaged in widespread human rights abuses, including murdering people it suspected of links with left-wing rebels.
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Jun 10, 2024 | 
cohenmilstein.com | Agnieszka Fryszman |Leslie Mitchell Kroeger
Six-week jury trial is the first of a series of bellwether trials in 16-year wrongful death lawsuit. In 2007, Chiquita pled guilty to a federal crime arising out of its payments to the terror group responsible for the murders.
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May 24, 2024 | 
cohenmilstein.com | Molly J. Bowen |Robert A. Braun |Agnieszka Fryszman |Eric A. Kafka
The National Law Journal has named Cohen Milstein a winner in three individual Elite Trial Lawyers categories, a finalist in five Elite Trial Lawyers practice areas, finalist for Plaintiffs’ Attorney of the Year and Plaintiffs’ Law Firm of the Year.
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May 15, 2024 | 
cohenmilstein.com | Agnieszka Fryszman
The National Law Journal and Law.com named Agnieszka Fryszman a winner of its 2024 Elite Trial Lawyers Lifetime Achievement award. The award recognizes plaintiffs’ lawyers who have consistently achieved outstanding results in high-stakes litigation in the past year and over the course of their careers. Agnieszka Fryszman, chair of Cohen Milstein’s Human Rights practice, has built a practice recognized as one of the best private international human rights practices in the world.
