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Sep. 11, 2026
Trial lawyers united after 9/11 to help victims obtain compensation
David S. Casey Jr. recalls how more than 1,000 trial lawyers put litigation aside after Sept. 11 to help victims' families obtain billions in compensation without charging attorney fees.
Two days after the Sept. 11 attacks, with commercial airplanes grounded and Americans still trying to comprehend what had happened, leaders of the nation's trial bar took an extraordinary step for an organization of litigators: They asked lawyers not to sue.
David S. Casey Jr., then vice president of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, remembers the emergency conference call that led to the appeal.
"We were in uncharted territory, and the purpose of our ...
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