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MERRILL G. DAVIDOFF is a senior shareholder with the Philadelphia law firm of Berger & Montague, P.C., where he has litigated and tried a wide variety of securities, antitrust and environmental class actions. He was lead trial counsel in In Re: Melridge Securities Litigation (D. Or.) (securities verdict of $88 million, Rico verdict of $240 million) and In Re: Sunbeam Securities Litigation (S.D. Fla.) (settled for $142 million). In 2006, as lead trial counsel in the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant Litigation, his $554 million verdict was the third largest in the United States, according to the National Law Journal. The $926 million judgment in Rocky Flats was vacated on appeal and certiorari proceedings are pending in the Supreme Court. Mr. Davidoff earned his B.A. degree from the University of Pennsylvania and his J.D. degree, cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. MICHAEL C. DELL'ANGELO is a shareholder in the Philadelphia firm of Berger & Montague, P.C., where he specializes in antitrust, securities and complex litigation. Mr. Dell'Angelo has been deemed a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer - Rising Star, annually since 2007. He formerly served as the 3rd Circuit Editor of the American Bar Association's quarterly publication, Class Action and Derivative Suits. Mr. Dell'Angelo earned his B.A. degree from Connecticut College and his J.D. degree from The Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law. KELLY D. ECKEL is a partner in the law firm of Duane Morris LLP, where she practices in the areas of commercial, securities, class action, intellectual property and product liability litigation. A former judicial clerk to the Honorable Stanley S. Brotman of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, Ms. Eckel is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. She represents clients in federal and state courts and in arbitrations in a variety of areas of complex commercial litigation. Ms. Eckel has significant experience in software licensing disputes, commercial fraud and other business tort cases. She has represented both plaintiffs and defendants in major litigation, including class action securities fraud and products liability cases. Ms. Eckel is a member of the American (member, Litigation Section, Section of Women Lawyers) and Philadelphia (member, Federal Courts Committee) bar associations and the University of Pennsylvania Law School American Inn of Court. She earned her A.B. degree, cum laude, from Harvard University and J.D. degree, cum laude, from Temple University. MARK S. KARDOS is the principal in the law offices of Kardos & Goch, where he practices in the areas of personal injury and medical malpractice. Mr. Kardos has litigated several medical malpractice cases to a verdict, some of which have been noted in the Pennsylvania Jury Reporter and the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers' The Verdict. The parties in more than 1,400 cases involving UM and UIM law have chosen him as arbitration chairman. Mr. Kardos is a former instructor of business and real estate law at Temple University. He earned his B.S. degree from Millersville University and his J.D. degree from the University of Baltimore Law School. Mr. Kardos is a member of the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association.
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