On May 1, 2024, nine years after a pipeline ruptured along the Santa Barbara coastline spilling oil onto private property, Refugio State Beach and into the Pacific Ocean, U.S. District Court Judge Philip Gutierrez granted preliminary approval of a $70 million class action settlement to property owners to resolve all outstanding class claims.
The annual Champions Luncheon fundraising event for the Treehouse for Kids nonprofit took place on April 23, 2024 at the Sheraton Grand Seattle, and KR is both proud and grateful to have participated once again as a sponsor.
We are thrilled to announce that Keller Rohrback partner, Derek Loeser, has been selected by Law360 as one of its Titans of the Plaintiffs Bar for 2024!
The Elizabeth Gregory Home held its annual Spring Luncheon on Friday, March 8, 2024 at the Hyatt at Olive 8 in Seattle. This celebrated event brought together over 280 people who support the EGH mission of providing a welcoming and respectful refuge where women who are experiencing homelessness, trauma, or economic insecurity have access to a caring community and critical resources.
Keller Rohrback is very proud to announce the selection of senior partner Derek W. Loeser to Forbes inaugural list of America’s Top 200 Lawyers. This recognition highlights “the finest practitioners in the profession—lawyers with stellar track records in their specialties, those who have broken barriers to emerge as leaders in their fields, and attorneys most respected by peers and clients.”
We are elated to share the news that the significant verdict reached by a Portland jury in the 2020 Oregon fires case was selected by the Courtroom View Network as the first in its Top 10 list of most impressive plaintiff verdicts for 2023.
We’re excited to announce that associate attorney, Zachary Gussin, has been selected as one of the Puget Sound Business Journal’s monthly “Next Gen in Law” honorees for February. This honor is bestowed by the publication upon attorneys who have been practicing for 10 years or less, and who it describes as “rising stars in the Puget Sound region who are helping the business community thrive.”
Keller Rohrback is proud to announce that the firm has once more been named to Law360’s select list of Practice Groups of the Year. In the awards’ 14th year, the admission range for case achievements was from October 1, 2022 to October 6, 2023, and for Keller Rohrback included successes in both the Class Action and Environmental practice area categories. Law360 is the country’s foremost online publication site for legal news and analysis, and the Practice Groups of the Year awards “honor the attorney teams behind litigation wins and major deals that resonated through the legal industry.”
A jury in Portland, Oregon awarded approximately $84 million in compensation from PacifiCorp to nine survivors of the fires that swept across Oregon on Labor Day 2020. The verdict, which consisted of $6 million in economic and $56 million in non-economic damages, translates to an award of more than $84 million after the doubling of economic damages and the addition of punitive damages of 25% that are automatically applied given the jury’s verdict in the first Phase of the case. This verdict is the first trial exclusively on individuals’ damages after a historic class action verdict last year that established that PacifiCorp, a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, was liable to the entire class for causing the devastating fires. It is the second jury verdict awarding damages to injured class members, and maintains a trajectory which, according to PacifiCorp, represents more than $25 billion in total damages to the class.