Editor’s note: The graphic presentation accompanying the story that included the references to a BMW lease and Slanted Door dinner tabs was a creation of Recorder editors, not Ms. Pasternak.

FEDEX PROSECUTION WAS A TEAM EFFORT

Although I appreciate your paper’s coverage of the Satchell v. FedEx Express case and the role Altshuler Berzon played in helping to achieve the strong injunctive and monetary relief in the proposed consent decree in that case ["FedEx, workers reach $55M deal on racial claims," April 11], I write to underscore that the prosecution of the Satchell case was the team effort of eight co-counsel firms: Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein; Schneider & Wallace; Law Offices of John Burris; Law Offices of Michael S. Davis; Law Offices of Kay McKenzie Parker; Barry Goldstein, of counsel to Goldstein, Demchak, Baller, Borgen & Dardarian; Law Offices of Waukeen Q. McCoy; and, since late last year, Altshuler Berzon. No one person or firm alone could have achieved the injunctive and monetary relief in this case. All of these firms, including two firms that were inadvertently not listed in your article � The Law Offices of Michael S. Davis and The Law Offices of Kay McKenzie Parker � played an important role.

Michael (“Cael”) Davis and Waukeen McCoy originated the case. Lieff Cabraser and Schneider & Wallace not only devoted thousands of attorney and paralegal hours to the case over a four-year period, but also advanced the millions of dollars of out-of-pocket costs necessary to prepare a case of this magnitude for trial. Kelly Dermody and Dan Barenbaum of Lieff Cabraser and Todd Schneider and Guy Wallace of Schneider & Wallace played major roles in the prosecution of this action. John Burris provided his tremendous trial expertise, and Barry Goldstein added his extensive knowledge of civil rights law. Working together, this team of talented lawyers was able to go toe-to-toe with one of the nation’s largest companies.

Thank you for your coverage of this important case, and for giving me this opportunity to give credit to those to whom it is due.

James M. Finberg
San Francisco



Editor’s note: James Finberg is a partner at Altshuler Berzon.

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