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Medtronic Heart Lead Recall | Medtronic Recall FAQ
Quick Facts on the Recall | Know Your Legal Rights
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Clients represented by our firm filed the first personal injury lawsuits in the nation against Medtronic.

We have been appointed to a leadership role among plaintiffs' counsel in the litigation against Medtronic in federal court.

Our injury lawyers have years of experience successfully representing clients in personal injury cases. We provide each client with high-level individualized representation.

There is no charge or obligation for our review of your injury lawsuit.

We have retained product safety and medical experts nationwide to assist our clients with their claims.

In addition to a team of experienced lawyers, we have dedicated nurses, legal assistants and case clerks to assist our attorneys in the Medtronic recall litigation. Our firm has six full-time nurses, including ones with decades of experience working with heart patients.

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Lieff Cabraser represents persons across America injured by the Medtronic Sprint Fidelis heart lead. Click here to contact an experienced injury attorney at Lieff Cabraser for a free case evaluation. Or call us toll-free at 1-800-948-2181.

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Read excerpts from the latest news covering the Medtronic recall and lawsuits:

Read excerpts from the latest news covering the Medtronic recall and lawsuits

Lieff Cabraser had been investigating patient complaints concerning the Medtronic heart lead prior to the recall announced by Medtronic. On the same day as the recall, heart patients nationwide represented by Lieff Cabraser and co-counsel filed separate personal injury and class action lawsuits against Medtronic.

May 16, 2008
"Heart Device Patients Often Unaware of Recalls"

May 7, 2008
"Medtronic to Cut About 1,100 Jobs"

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Medtronic Heart Lead Recall
Attorney Profile

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Lieff Cabraser Attorney Donald C. Arbitblit

Donald C. Arbitblit

Partner

San Francisco

Practice Areas Include: Environmental and Toxic Torts, Personal Injury/Torts

E-Mail:

darbitblit@lchb.com

Phone:

(415) 956-1000

Fax:

(415) 956-1008

vCard:

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Bar Information

Admitted to practice in Vermont, 1979; California and U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, 1986.

Education

Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California (J.D., 1979); Order of the Coif; Tufts University (B.S., magna cum laude, 1974).

Awards

"Northern California Super Lawyer," Law & Politics, 2004, 2006-2008.

Publications

Co-Author with Wendy Fleishman, "The Risky Business of Off-Label Use," Trial (March 2005); “Comment on Joiner: Decision on the Daubert Test of Admissibility of Expert Testimony,” 6 Mealey’s Emerging Toxic Torts, No. 18 (December 1997); Co-author with William Bernstein, “Effective Use of Class Action Procedures in California Toxic Tort Litigation,” 3 Hastings West-Northwest Journal of Environmental Law and Policy, No. 3 (Spring 1996); “The Plight of American Citizens Injured by Transboundary River Pollution,” 8 Ecology Law Quarterly, No. 2 (1979).

Member

Member of the Federal Court-appointed Science Executive Committee, and Chair of the Epidemiology/Clinical Trials Subcommittee, In re Vioxx Products Liability Litigation, MDL No. 1657 (E.D. La.); Federal Science and Expert Witness Committees in In re Diet Drugs (Phentermine/Fenfluramine/ Dexfenfluramine) Products Liability Litigation, MDL No. 1203 (E.D. Pa.), In re Baycol Products Litigation, MDL No. 1431 (D. Minn.) and Rezulin Products Liability Litigation, MDL No. 1348 (S.D.N.Y.); Bar Association of San Francisco; State Bar of California.

  
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About Lieff Cabraser

Founded in 1972, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP is an over fifty attorney law firm with offices in San Francisco, New York and Nashville. For the last five years, the National Law Journal has recognized Lieff Cabraser as one of the top plaintiff law firms in America.

To learn more about the advantages our lawyers offer clients in personal injury and wrongful death cases, click here.

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