First up this week is the team led by Kathryn "Lee" Boyd of Hecht Partners and Michael Hausfeld of Hausfeld who represent refugees who claim French bank BNP Paribus aided and abetted the government of Sudan in committing acts of genocide between 1997 and 2011. After the suit survived the bank's motion for summary judgment last month, Senior U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein last week certified a class estimated to be more than 23,000 asylees and refugees in the U.S. who lived in Sudan or South Sudan at the time. As previously noted, the Hecht Partners team also includes Kristen Nelson, Mike Eggenberger, Theo Bruening and paralegal Nathan Hakimpour. The Hausfeld team includes Scott Gilmore, Amanda Lee-DasGupta, Claire Rosset, Mary Sameera Van Houten Harper and senior paralegal Jim Mitchell.