Two sets of law firms filed competing motions Friday urging a New Jersey federal court to appoint them as interim co-lead class counsel in a putative class action alleging St. Joseph’s Healthcare System Inc. is violating the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act by underfunding an employee pension plan.
More than a month after the consolidation of two proposed class actions filed separately against St. Joseph’s by each set of law firms, the motion from Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC and Keller Rohrback LLP and the motion from Izard Kindall & Raabe LLP and Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check LLP touted the respective firms’ financial resources and experiences in handling similar matters.
St. Joseph’s is represented by David R. Kott and Christopher S. Mayer of McCarter & English LLP and Stacey Cerrone, Lindsey Chopin and Howard Shapiro of Proskauer Rose LLP.