Stephen Sheller Honored as The Legal’s 2020 Pennsylvania Trailblazer
2020 Pennsylvania Trailblazers brought to you by The Legal Intelligencer Watch: Deadly Drugs – Johnson & Johnson’s Risperdal
Judge Urges Appeals Court to Uphold $70M Risperdal Verdict
Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Judge Paula Patrick urges the Pennsylvania Superior Court to uphold the $70 Million jury verdict in A.Y. v. Janssen Pharmaceuticals. AY is one of many boys who developed gynecomastia after taking Janssen’s anti-psychotic medication Risperdal. This is the 5th trial for Risperdal, with over 6,000 awaiting trial in a consolidated […]
HHS Pick, Former Eli Lilly Exec, Grilled over Zyprexa Scandal
Sheller’s New Book Available, Read the First Chapter
NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE AND BY REQUEST AT YOUR LOCAL BOOKSTORE — Click here to buy the book online — PHARMAGEDDON: A Nation Betrayed A National Trial Lawyer Reveals an Industry Spinning Out of Control by Stephen A. Sheller, Esq. with New York Times best-selling author Sidney D. Kirkpatrick […]
#6 & #11 PA SETTLEMENTS 2014
American Lawyer Media’s Top Pennsylvania Verdicts and Settlements for 2014 reveals Sheller, P.C. in a familiar spot again in 2014. The firm has been at or near the top of the list for five of the last six years. This year the firm pulled both the #6 and #11 Top Settlements spots based on its […]
$520 MILLION SETTLEMENT
April 27, 2010: In the third record whistleblower settlement for Sheller, P.C. in fifteen months, the firm represented a whistleblower who brought forth knowledge of wrongdoing by AstraZeneca. AstraZeneca agreed to a civil settlement of $520 million for charges of off-label marketing of the powerful antipsychotic drug Seroquel. The settlement is the largest pharmaceutical civil settlement […]
#1 PA V&S 2013-2014
Sheller, P.C. had the largest settlement in Pennsylvania in 2013-2014 as published in American Lawyer Media’s Legal Intelligencer newspaper. The $2.2 billion settlement with Janssen Pharmaceuticals, a division of Johnson & Johnson, was a qui tam case where Sheller, P.C. represented the whistleblower who brought the qui tam charges. With the U.S. Department of Justice, […]
HUMANITARIAN OF THE YEAR, CCHR
Stephen Sheller was honored as “Humanitarian of the Year” by the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR). The black tie event was held at the Los Angeles Westin Bonaventure February 28, 2015. The introduction to his award: “CCHR’s first human rights award winner is a renowned attorney Stephen Sheller. His Philadelphia law firm opposes some […]
$2.5 Million Verdict
A Philadelphia jury awarded $2.5 million to a twenty year old man whose family claimed he developed female-like breasts (gynecomastia) from taking the antipsychotic drug Risperdal for five years from ages eight to thirteen. Stephen A. Sheller, attorney for the family: “We are encouraged to see this day come, after ten years of our pursuing […]
$2.2B Settlement “Leads the Pack”
The $2.2 Billion Settlement with Johnson & Johnson Leads the Pack by Lizzy McLellan, The Legal Intelligencer The Legal Intelligencer reported that the largest verdict and settlement award in Pennsylvania between August 2013 and August 2014 was handled by Sheller, P.C. with a $2.2 billion settlement over healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiary, […]
