IN RE SULZER HIP PROSTHESIS AND KNEE PROSTHESIS

No. 1:01-CV-9000.

290 F.Supp.2d 840 (2003)

In re: SULZER HIP PROSTHESIS AND KNEE PROSTHESIS LIABILITY LITIGATION

United States District Court, N.D. Ohio, Eastern Division.

October 31, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel E. Becnel, Jr., Reserve, LA, Don Barrett, Barrett Law Office, Lexington, MS, James R. Dugan, II, Gauthier, Dowing, Labarre, Beiser & Dean, Metairie, LA, John R. Climaco, Climaco Lefkowitz Peca Wilcox & Garofoli, Cleveland, OH, Keith M. Fleischman, Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach LLP, New York City, R. Eric Kennedy, Weisman, Kennedy & Berris, Cleveland, OH, Richard S. Wayne, Strauss & Troy, Stanley M. Chesley, Waite, Schneider, Bayless & Chesley, Cincinnati, OH, Steven E. Clark, Clark & Mitchell, PC, Oklahoma City, OK, Wendell H. Gauthier, Gauthier, Downing & La-Barre, Metairie, LA, Charles R. Parker, Hill & Parker, Houston, TX, David W. Zoll, Zoll & Kranz, Toledo, Debra J. Horn, Meyers, Roman, Friedberg & Lewis, Cleveland, OH, Janet G. Abaray, Lopez Hodes Restaino Milman Skikos Polos, Cincinnati, OH, John T. Murray, Murray & Murray, Sandusky, Lee Squitieri, Squitieri & Fearon, New York City, Mary B. McKee, Hickman & Lowder, Phillip A. Ciano, Ciano & Goldwasser, Cleveland, OH, Stephen B. Murray, Jr., Murray Law Firm, New Orleans, LA, Steven M. Tindall, Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein, San Francisco, CA, Sylvia Antalis Goldsmith, Murray & Murray, Sandusky, Timothy J. Gallagher, Schwarzwald & McNair, Cleveland, OH, John L. Davidson, Frazer Davidson, P.A., Jackson, MS, Michael E. Cox, Biloxi, MS, Glen Edward Hazen, Jr., Morgan, Hazen & Galbreath, Cincinnati, Laura Citrano, Iverson Yoakum Papiano & Hatch, Neil Papiano, Iverson Yoakum Papiano & Hatch, Los Angeles, CA, Tracy Annette Smith, Morgan, Hazen & Galbreath, Cincinnati, OH, for Plaintiff in Sulzer Orthopedics Inc. Hip Prosthesis and Knee Prosthesis Products Liability Litigation, Thomas Reynolds, Gradys Hodge, Matthew Murnane, Carletta Murnane, Plaintiffs.

J. Patrick Herald, Baker & McKenzie, Richard M. Franklin, Baker & McKenzie, Chicago, IL, Sheryl Medeiros, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, San Francisco, CA, David W. Brooks, Shook, Hardy & Bacon, Kansas City, MO, James J. Dries, Baker & McKenzie, Chicago, IL, Jeffrey M. Whitesell, Arter & Hadden, Cleveland, OH, Bradley D. Honnold, Shook, Hardy & Bacon, Harvey L. Kaplan, Shook, Hardy & Bacon, Matthew D. Keenan, Shook, Hardy & Bacon, Kansas City, MO, Richard F. Scruggs, Scruggs Law Firm, Pascagoula, MS, Sidney A. Backstrom, Scruggs Law Firm, Oxford, MS, Kenneth M. Seeger, Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May, San Francisco, CA, Irene C. Keyse-Walker, Arter & Hadden, Cleveland, Robert C. Tucker, Tucker Ellis & West, Cleveland, Steven J. Boranian, Reed Smith Crosby Heafey LLP, San Francisco, CA, Werner L. Polak, Shearman & Sterling, New York City, Bridget M. Brennan, Baker & Hostetler, Mary M. Bittence, Baker & Hostetler, Cleveland, OH, for Sulzer Medica, Sulzer Medica Ltd., Sulzer Orthopedics Ltd., Sulzer Orthopedics Inc., Sulzer Orthopedics Incorporated, Sulzer Medica USA Inc., Sulzer A.G., Sulzer USA Holding Co., Centerpulse Orthopedics, Inc. fka Sulzer Orthopedics Inc. dba Sulzer Medica, Centerpulse USA Inc, Centerpulse USA Holding Company, Centerpulse Ltd. fka Sulzer Medica AG fka Sulzer Medica Ltd. aka Centerpulse AG Centerpulse Orthopedics Ltd. fka Sulzer Orthopedics Ltd., Defendants.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

O'MALLEY, District Judge.

I.

The Court has received notice, both from individual class members and also from the Claims Administrator, of a recurring problem regarding the calculation, award, and payment of contingent attorney fees to individual attorneys for certain plaintiff class members in this case. Because this problem is not uncommon, and because it raises ethical concerns, the

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