Background
Lewis, Richard S. was born on March 17, 1954 in Buffalo, New York, United States.
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Richard S. Lewis
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Tufts University (Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, 1976). University of Michigan (Master of Public Health, 1981). University of Pennsylvania (Juris Doctor, cum laude, 1986).
Career
Worked at Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll, Professional limited liability company (Washington, District of Columbia) specializing in General Civil Trial and Appellate Practice in State and Federal Courts. Antitrust and Unfair Trade Practices, Securities, Consumer Product Liability, Franchising, Mass Torts, and Toxic Tort Litigation. Complex, Multi-District and Class Action Litigation.
Admitted to the bar, 1986, Pennsylvania.
1988, District of Columbia. Comments Editor, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 1985-1986.
Author: Comment, "O.C.A.W. v. American Cyanamid: The Shrinking of The Occupational Safety & Health Acting," U. Pennsylvania
L. Review, July 1985. Law Clerk to the Honorable Stanley South. Brotman, United States.
District Court, District of New Jersey. Member: The District of Columbia Bar. Pennsylvania Bar Association.
The firm is one of a handful of firms in the United States litigating plaintiffs" class actions as a regular part of its business, with a specialty in antitrust, securities, environmental toxic tort, consumer, and product liability cases.
The firm has been involved in many of the major complex class action cases litigated in the United States and has a national reputation in this area. Members of the firm have concluded numerous securities and antitrust class actions in which they have played a principal or lead role or served on the Executive Committee of plaintiffs" counsel
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Member: The District of Columbia Bar. Pennsylvania Bar Association.
