Leslie Mitchell Kroeger

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.

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.

Jul 18, 2024 | cohenmilstein.com | Leslie Mitchell Kroeger

Chiquita’s money helped buy weapons and ammunition used to kill innocent victims. —US Government sentencing memo, 2008In 2007, Chiquita — one of the world’s largest banana producers — admitted that for years it had been knowingly paying a Colombian terrorist organization to protect its operations in the country. The consequence was predictably violent, allegedly resulting in thousands of murders, disappearances, and acts of torture.

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.

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.