About
Nationally identified lawyer and creator Sharon Eubanks joined the Bordas & Bordas group in July 2015. She specializes in complicated civil litigation. In 2000, Eubanks served as lead counsel on behalf of the United States in United States v. Phillip Morris USA, et al., - the federal tobacco litigation. This become the most important civil Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) enforcement motion ever filed. Following the nine-month trial, it become determined by the federal district court that the fundamental U.S. cigarette agencies violated the civil provisions of RICO and devoted fraud. The Court ordered the businesses to exchange their commercial enterprise tactics, specially inside the areas of advertising and advertising and marketing. The trial court’s choice become upheld on enchantment to the D.C. Circuit. Eubanks also co-authored “Bad Acts: The Racketeering Case Against the Tobacco Industry,” an insider account of the federal tobacco litigation that brought about the landmark choice. Eubanks came to Bordas & Bordas from Edwards Kirby in Washington, D.C. Prior to becoming a member of Edwards Kirby, Eubanks become a partner in the firm Edwards & Eubanks. She co-founded the firm with Cate Edwards. Eubanks started her prison profession in 1980 with the Federal Trade Commission wherein she treated antitrust cases. In 1983, she joined the U. S. Department of Justice and served as deputy director of the industrial litigation branch from 1992-1999. While on the D.C. regulation workplace of Holland & Knight from 2007-2009, Eubanks worked completely on seasoned bono matters and in 2009, she joined a civil litigation boutique organization in Washington representing plaintiffs in wage and hour, lead poisoning, scientific malpractice and employment discrimination instances. She become a part of a criminal team that represented greater than 6,000 women claiming gender and pregnancy discrimination in Velez v. Novartis and secured a $253 million judgment for the plaintiffs – the largest employment verdict in a gender discrimination case in U.S. records. › ›
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Legal Issues
- Personal Injury
- Animal & Dog Bites, Brain Injury, Car Accidents, Construction Accidents, Motorcycle Accidents, Premises Liability, Truck Accidents, Wrongful Death
- Medical Malpractice
- Birth Injury, Medical Misdiagnosis, Pharmacy Errors, Surgical Errors
- Antitrust Law
- Consumer Law
- Class Action, Lemon Law
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Languages
- English: Spoken, Written
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Experience
- Lawyer
Bordas and Bordas Lawyers, PLLC
2015
Educations
Graduation year: 1977
