Emerson Poynter – the first firm in any jurisdiction to file a complaint in relation to the contamination of LLRICE 601 – is a national law firm with offices in Houston and Little Rock, whose lawyers have specialized in complex litigation for well over eighteen years.  The firm’s founding partners, John G. Emerson and Scott E. Poynter, have extensive experience prosecuting complex cases, and class action cases similar to these.  Emerson Poynter has represented, and is currently representing, individuals, large companies, and employees in major class actions, and derivative cases throughout the United States, and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars and other significant relief for the parties they have represented.  These cases involve violations of the environmental, consumer protection, securities, antitrust, and ERISA laws. 

Leading the prosecution of these cases for Emerson Poynter is Scott E. Poynter.  Mr. Poynter, the Co-Chair of Plaintiffs’ Executive Committee, has been involved in complex class action litigation for more than eleven years.  For example, he is Plaintiffs’ Co-Lead Counsel in In re Farmers Ins. Co., Inc.  FCRA Litig., MDL No. 1564 (W.D. Okla.), a consumer class action involving more than one million class members.  John G. Emerson, Mr. Poynter’s co-founding partner of the firm, will also participate in this litigation given his extensive experience in complex litigation.  Mr. Emerson recently concluded serving as co-lead counsel in an arduous shareholder derivative lawsuit in the Southern District of New York involving AOL Time Warner.

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