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October 22, 2012 — KUOW Radio Interview with Don Barrett for “Big Food” Food Misbranding Lawsuits

Attorney Don Barrett was interviewed on the KUOW Weekday Show back in August. “Anti-Tobacco Lawyers Take on ‘Big Food’: Large food companies like PepsiCo and Heinz have recently attracted some unwanted attention from a few big-time lawyers. Attorneys who won anti-tobacco cases in the ’90s are going after what they’re calling “Big Food.” They’re saying […]

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October 19, 2012 — WGN Radio Interview with Don Barrett for “Big Food” Food Misbranding Lawsuits

Attorney Don Barrett joins Mike McConnell on Chicago’s WGN Radio to discuss his recent allegations of big food companies mislabeling, and misleading consumers.

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October 15, 2012 — BBC News Article & Video for “Big Food” Food Misbranding Lawsuits

BBC News published an article entitled, Big Tobacco lawyers target food industry. Here’s a snippet from the article: “Mr Barrett’s case against Big Food is that companies are misrepresenting their products, promoting them as “natural” or “healthy”, when in fact, he says, they are no such thing. His mission is to make them stick to […]

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August 22, 2012 – Mississippi Trial Lawyer Don Barrett Leading the Way Again

Mississippi Trial Lawyer Don Barrett Leading the Way Again, by Lisa Wagner “If the name Don Barrett sounds familiar to you, there’s reason.  Pictured here, sitting at his desk with a portrait of his daughter hanging in the background, Don Barrett is the quintessential American family man.”

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August 18, 2012 – StarTribune – Big Tobacco lawyers find next target: Big Food

StarTribune – Big Tobacco lawyers find next target: Big Food Article by: STEPHANIE STROM New York Times August 18, 2012 – 10:21 PM “Don Barrett, a Mississippi lawyer, took in hundreds of millions of dollars a decade ago after suing Big Tobacco and winning record settlements from R.J. Reynolds, Philip Morris and other cigarette makers. […]

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August 18, 2012 – Lawyers From Suits Against Big Tobacco Target Food Makers

Lawyers From Suits Against Big Tobacco Target Food Makers By STEPHANIE STROM, Published: August 18, 2012 “More than a dozen lawyers who took on the tobacco companies have filed 25 cases against industry players like ConAgra Foods, PepsiCo, Heinz, General Mills and Chobani that stock pantry shelves and refrigerators across America.  The suits, filed over […]

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March 28, 2012 — Barrett Law Group Wins Important Motion for Virginia Coal Bed Methane Owners

Barrett Law Group attorneys together with a team of plaintiff attorneys from Virginia, New York, Tennessee and Mississippi received good news on behalf of their clients who are coalbed methane gas owners in Virginia.

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October 12, 2011 – New Location Benefits Barrett Law Group, P.A. Clients

The Law Office of Richard R. Barrett, PLLC, a Barrett Law Group, PA founding member, has moved locations to a facility that will better provide for the needs of our current and future clients. The new location at 2086 Old Taylor Road, Suite 1011, just across Highway 6 from the University of Mississippi in Oxford […]

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October 4, 2011 – Court Grants Final Approval to Virginia Gas Settlement

Today, Judge James P. Jones of the Western District of Virginia granted final approval to a class action settlement in Sharon B. Healy v. Chesapeake Appalachia LLC, et al., Case No. 10-cv-23.  Don Barrett appeared at the final fairness hearing on behalf of certain Virginia landowners who alleged that the Defendant gas company had wrongfully […]

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Court Grants Preliminary Approval of Virginia Gas Settlement

June 22, 2011 – Today, Judge Jones of the Western District of Virginia granted preliminary approval of the class action settlement in Sharon B. Healy v. Chesapeake Appalachia, LLC, et al.  The court set a Final Fairness Hearing for October 4, 2011 at 9:00 EST.  This is the first such settlement by the Virginia Gas […]

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