Conrad & Scherer
Fort Lauderdale Law Firm of Conrad & Scherer Opens Office in Quito, Ecuador
20.10.2008 12:42:20 Conrad & Scherer Firm is dedicated to ensuring corporate accountability for its Latin American clients. The firm represents individuals, families, cooperatives, companies, unions, indigenous groups and governments in actions to hold multinational corporations accountable for wrongful conduct. The firm is also representing hundreds of victims in a lawsuit brought against DynCorp for allegedly over spraying toxic defoliant under its contract with Colombian government to participate in Plan Colombia.
(live-PR.com) - Fort Lauderdale, Florida -The civil litigation firm of Conrad & Scherer LLP has opened a new office in Quito, Ecuador to help facilitate a number of ongoing human rights cases filed on behalf of clients in Latin America. The law firm also recently established an office in Washington, D.C., managed by international human rights attorney Terry Collingsworth, and in addition,
has formed a strategic alliance with a Panamanian law firm in that Central American country.
“Having an office in the capital city of Ecuador well positions us for the cases we are currently pursuing, largely under the Alien Torts Claims Act (ATCA),” said William R. Scherer, managing partner of Conrad & Scherer LLP. “These are large scale cases which require ongoing contact with our clients.”
Scherer said his firm is dedicated to ensuring corporate accountability for its Latin American clients. “While many companies conduct their Latin American business in a responsible manner, a few decide they can violate the law and the required standards of care with impunity,” he said.
From complicity in gross human rights violations to environmental disasters, Scherer said the firm represents individuals, families, cooperatives, companies, unions, indigenous groups and governments in actions to hold multinational corporations accountable for wrongful conduct.
The firm’s ongoing lawsuits include an action brought against Chiquita on behalf of families of 173 workers murdered by paramilitaries, alleging that Chiquita was complicit in the murders by forcing the workers to turn to paramilitaries as "protection."
The firm is also representing hundreds of victims in a lawsuit brought against Dyncorp for allegedly over spraying toxic defoliant under its contract with Colombian government to participate in Plan Colombia. The suit alleges the spraying, as part of the Colombian drug eradication program, caused death, injury and damage to Ecuadorian border provinces. In another case, Scherer and Collingsworth are jointly trying a case against ExxonMobil in Washington federal court this June for alleged human rights abuses in Indonesia.
On the firm’s international team with Scherer and Collingsworth are partners William R. Scherer III, William J. Wichmann and Jeff Frazier. Scherer III, an experienced civil rights attorney, is AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell and also practices in the areas of employment litigation and personal injury.
Wichmann, a practicing trial lawyer for more than 25 years, represents victims seriously injured in human rights, personal injury and wrongful death cases throughout the United States and overseas. Fluent in Spanish and holding dual U.S. and Panamanian citizenships, Wichmann has done business in South American for many years. Frazier, also fluent in Spanish and presently living in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, is also an experienced lawyer and handles general business litigation matters as well as human rights, environmental and labor cases.
For more Details please visit:- www.conradscherer.com/
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“Having an office in the capital city of Ecuador well positions us for the cases we are currently pursuing, largely under the Alien Torts Claims Act (ATCA),” said William R. Scherer, managing partner of Conrad & Scherer LLP. “These are large scale cases which require ongoing contact with our clients.”
Scherer said his firm is dedicated to ensuring corporate accountability for its Latin American clients. “While many companies conduct their Latin American business in a responsible manner, a few decide they can violate the law and the required standards of care with impunity,” he said.
From complicity in gross human rights violations to environmental disasters, Scherer said the firm represents individuals, families, cooperatives, companies, unions, indigenous groups and governments in actions to hold multinational corporations accountable for wrongful conduct.
The firm’s ongoing lawsuits include an action brought against Chiquita on behalf of families of 173 workers murdered by paramilitaries, alleging that Chiquita was complicit in the murders by forcing the workers to turn to paramilitaries as "protection."
The firm is also representing hundreds of victims in a lawsuit brought against Dyncorp for allegedly over spraying toxic defoliant under its contract with Colombian government to participate in Plan Colombia. The suit alleges the spraying, as part of the Colombian drug eradication program, caused death, injury and damage to Ecuadorian border provinces. In another case, Scherer and Collingsworth are jointly trying a case against ExxonMobil in Washington federal court this June for alleged human rights abuses in Indonesia.
On the firm’s international team with Scherer and Collingsworth are partners William R. Scherer III, William J. Wichmann and Jeff Frazier. Scherer III, an experienced civil rights attorney, is AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell and also practices in the areas of employment litigation and personal injury.
Wichmann, a practicing trial lawyer for more than 25 years, represents victims seriously injured in human rights, personal injury and wrongful death cases throughout the United States and overseas. Fluent in Spanish and holding dual U.S. and Panamanian citizenships, Wichmann has done business in South American for many years. Frazier, also fluent in Spanish and presently living in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, is also an experienced lawyer and handles general business litigation matters as well as human rights, environmental and labor cases.
For more Details please visit:- www.conradscherer.com/
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