Zachary Arbitman, of Youman & Caputo.

Elected and Appointed

Zachary Arbitman of Youman & Caputo was elected to the board of directors of The Public Interest Law Center.

The law center is a nonprofit organization that uses high-impact legal strategies to advance the civil, social and economic rights of communities in the Philadelphia region facing discrimination, inequality and poverty.

Its recent victories include the January 2018 Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision invalidating the Commonwealth's 2011 congressional map as an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander.

Arbitman's practice includes both representing whistleblowers nationwide in qui tam False Claims Act, IRS and SEC matters and catastrophic injury litigation in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

Arbitman is a graduate of George Washington University Law School, and he remains active in the alumni networks of those schools and the Episcopal Academy.

Events

The Philadelphia Association of Defense Counsel is offering a webinar titled "Fender Benders and Side Impact Offenders" on June 18.

The event is set to feature a social "virtual lunch" at 12:15 p.m.

The program begins at 12:30 p.m.

One substantive CLE credit is offered.

Email [email protected], and an Invite with link will be sent to you.

For more information, call 844-744-5600.

Announcements

Jonathan Shub, a consumer class action attorney, opened Shub Law Firm, a boutique consumer rights firm focusing on social justice and economic fairness.

The firm opened its offices in Haddonfield, New Jersey.

Shub Law Firm will focus on representing consumers and others in class actions against companies and entities that are unlawfully violating social, privacy and economic rights.

Shub leads class actions in a variety of cases, ranging from privacy to defective products to breach of contracts.

Shub is a frequent lecturer on class action issues and is a past chairman of the class action litigation group of the American Association for Justice.

He served as lead counsel on dozens of class actions and successfully recovered several hundred million dollars in class action settlement.

Shub was recently co-lead and trial counsel in the historic case of Taha v. County of Bucks.

The case, on behalf of 68,000 individuals, focused on criminal stigma resulting from a violation of a Pennsylvania law that prohibits the release of an individuals' confidential criminal history.

Shub and his team tried the case to verdict as the jury found for plaintiffs and awarded each individual $1,000 for an aggregate award of $68,000,000.

A settlement of the action received preliminary approval in Federal District Court in Philadelphia.

Shub is joined in his law firm by Kevin Laukaitis.

Laukaitis' practice similarly focuses on class action consumer litigation involving overcharging of deregulated energy companies, defective products, mislabeling and consumer fraud, and other areas of complex litigation.

Laukaitis played a role in class action cases against deregulated energy companies that engaged in deceptive overcharging practices and successfully recovered over $50 million dollars for consumers who were overcharged on their energy bills.

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