Sunday, February 20, 2005
Lawyer has opponents afraid, very afraid
WHEN it comes to asbestos litigation, Steven Kazan is one of the most feared men in corporate America - because he doesn't bluff, and he usually wins.
Kazan heads an Oakland, California, plaintiff law practice that not only deals in nothing but asbestos disease litigation, but is further specialised to handle almost exclusively the most appalling asbestos disease, the cancer mesothelioma, which crushes the lungs.
Many garden-variety plaintiff lawyers in the US take speculative punts, to the point of conducting mass screenings of working-class people in the hope of finding the slightest spot on the lung, to beat up into what may be a phoney case.
By contrast, Kazan deals only with the real thing.
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WHEN it comes to asbestos litigation, Steven Kazan is one of the most feared men in corporate America - because he doesn't bluff, and he usually wins.
Kazan heads an Oakland, California, plaintiff law practice that not only deals in nothing but asbestos disease litigation, but is further specialised to handle almost exclusively the most appalling asbestos disease, the cancer mesothelioma, which crushes the lungs.
Many garden-variety plaintiff lawyers in the US take speculative punts, to the point of conducting mass screenings of working-class people in the hope of finding the slightest spot on the lung, to beat up into what may be a phoney case.
By contrast, Kazan deals only with the real thing.
Read More...
