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Richard Golomb is managing shareholder and a founding partner of Golomb & Honik, PC. He has more than 35 years of experience representing those who have been catastrophically injured as a result of medical negligence, defective products, dangerous drugs, construction accidents and other personal injury claims. He also represents victims of consumer, banking and mortgage fraud in class actions.
Early in his career, Mr. Golomb was an associate, and then shareholder, with a Philadelphia personal injury firm representing catastrophically injured plaintiffs before striking out on his own in 1996. Since 1998, he has been a shareholder in Golomb & Honik, P.C., where he has served as counsel in more than 80 cases that resulted in million-dollar and multimillion-dollar verdicts and settlements for individual and class action clients.
Kenneth J. Grunfeld joined Golomb & Honik in the beginning of 2010 after many years defending pharmaceutical manufacturers, national railroads, asbestos companies and corporate clients in consumer protection, products liability, insurance coverage and other complex commercial disputes while working at one of Philadelphia's largest and most prestigious defense firms. In January 2012, Mr. Grunfeld became a partner with Golomb & Honik. He brings with him a wealth of pre-trial, trial and appellate work experience in both state and federal courts.
Now that Mr. Grunfeld has "switched sides," today his practice focuses on representing consumers in class actions against pharmaceutical manufacturers, banks, credits cards and other national corporate defendants. He also represents injured people in products liability mass tort matters. In addition, Mr. Grunfeld represents clients who have suffered catastrophic injury as a result of medical negligence, dangerous products, automobile accidents and premises liability claims. He has been named by Super Lawyers as a Pennsylvania Rising Star and as a Super Lawyer numerous times throughout his career and was a named as a Finalist for American Association for Justice’s prestigious Trial Lawyer of the Year Award in 2012.
Frederick S. Longer specializes in representing individuals who have been harmed by dangerous drugs, medical devices, other defective products and antitrust violations.
Mr. Longer has extensive experience in prosecuting individual, complex and class action litigations in both state and federal courts across the country. Mr. Longer has been involved in the resolution of several of the largest settlements involving personal injuries including the $6.75 Billion settlement involving Diet Drugs and the $4.85 Billion settlement involving Vioxx. Mr. Longer was part of the teams responsible for negotiating the settlements in the National Football League Players’ Concussion Litigation, MDL No. 2323, and the Chinese-Manufactured Drywall Products Liability Litigation, MDL 2047, involving various suppliers and manufacturers of Chinese Drywall valued in excess of $1 Billion.
Mr. Longer has a wealth of experience in mass torts and has frequently been the chairman or member of the Law and Briefing Committee in numerous multi-district litigations in In re Propulsid Products Liability Litigation, MDL No. 1355 (E.D. La.); In re Rezulin Products Liability Litigation, MDL No. 1348 (S.D.N.Y.); In re Vioxx Products Liability Litigation, MDL No. 1657 (E.D.La.); In re Orthopedic Bone Screw Products Liability Litigation, MDL No. 1014 (E.D. Pa.); In re Diet Drug Litigation, MDL No. 1203 (E.D. Pa.); and In re Xarelto Products Liability Litigation, MDL 2592 (E.D.La.).
Laurence S. Berman, a member of the firm, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on January 17, 1953. He was admitted to the bar in 1977. He is admitted to practice before the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Third, Fourth and Seventh Circuits; the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania; and the Bar of Pennsylvania. He is a graduate of Temple University (B.B.A., magna cum laude, 1974, J.D. 1977). He is a member of the Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society. Mr. Berman was the law clerk to the Honorable Charles R. Weiner, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania 1978-1980. Member: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and American Bar Associations. In 1982, Mr. Berman joined the law firm of Levin & Fishbein as an associate and became a partner in 1985 when the firm name was changed to Levin, Fishbein, Sedran & Berman (“LFSB”).
Mr. Berman has had extensive experience in litigating and managing complex litigation. In the early 1980’s he became a member of the discovery, law and trial committees of In re: Asbestos School Litigation, Master File No. 83-0268 (E.D. Pa.). As a member of those committees, he drafted discovery and legal briefs that lead to the successful resolution of the case on behalf of a nationwide class of schools seeking recovery of damages for the costs and expenses they were required to expend to assess the presence of asbestos in school buildings and to remediate under newly enacted rules and regulations of the Environmental Protection Agency, promulgated in the 1970’s. In connection with that litigation, he was one of the architects of approaching class certification issues for a nationwide class by the use of a “50” state analysis of the law, in order to demonstrate the similarity of laws and therefore the manageability of a nationwide class action. The “50” state approach has been followed in other cases.
Dee Miles joined Beasley Allen Law Firm in 1991 and has not only been a pioneer of consumer fraud and commercial litigation nationwide, he has demonstrated great leadership resulting in the firm’s numerous record-setting verdicts for clients in many areas of law. In addition to representing clients in litigation, Dee manages the entire Consumer Fraud / Commercial Litigation Section of the firm and is involved in every case being litigated in it.
Notable Cases
Dee is a proven leader in complex litigation on a national level. He has been appointed by federal district judges to serve in a leadership role for the plaintiffs in numerous Multidistrict Litigations (MDLs) throughout the country, charged with the responsibility of coordinating the litigation for the entire country on certain cases such as the VW “Clean Diesel” Marketing, Sales Practices and Product Litigation MDL, Chrysler- Dodge- Fiat Ecodiesel Marketing Sales Practices, Toyota sudden unintended acceleration MDL, Target Data Breach MDL, the Home Depot Data Breach MDL, the Blue Cross Blue Shield Antitrust MDL and the Takata airbag MDL, to name a few. Dee also regularly represents States Attorney Generals in various states throughout the country on a variety of litigation. Most recently, Dee was appointed to the Plaintiffs Steering Committee (PSC) for the MDL regarding auto supplier ZF TRW Automotive and its defective airbags. The malfunctioning airbags are linked to at least eight deaths. The cases’ origins show noticeable similarities to the earlier cases involving defective Takata airbags. More than 12 million vehicles by multiple manufacturers are involved.
Steve Nober, Founder and CEO of Consumer Attorney Marketing Group, has been a major force in the legal industry for over a decade. His expertise covers the full spectrum of legal marketing, from offline, online, and social media marketing to telemarketing, intake and contracting services and medical record retrieval and review. Employing a staff of over 350, Consumer Attorney Marketing Group operates six service divisions to help law firms with new case acquisition. With CAMG’s Legal Marketing Index, Steve makes the agency’s proprietary data and marketing trends available to law firms. Recognized as an industry innovator, Steve speaks at over 40 conferences a year on topics including best marketing practices and ethics in advertising.