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 […]

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.”

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. […]

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 […]

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.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

May 15, 2011 – BLG Attorney Richard Barrett has added another court in which he can represent Plaintiffs at hearings and trial.  He is now admitted to both the General and Trial Bars for the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.  He was previously admitted to the General and Trial Bars […]

May 20, 2011-  Barrett Law Group, PA attorney and co-founding member, Richard Barrett has been appointed by United States District Judge Matthew Kennelly to serve on the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee in the In re: Navistar Diesel Engine Product Liability Litigation, MDL No. 2223 in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.  […]