Practice Areas - Class Actions
- Complex and Multi-District Litigation
- Plaintiffs Personal Injury
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- Drug and Medical Device Litigation
- Consumer Litigation
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| Contact Info | Telephone: 310-207-3233
Fax: 310-820-7444
http://www.baumhedlundlaw.com
http://www.effexorbirthdefect.com
http://www.antidepressantbirthdefects.com/
http://www.pphnlawyers.com
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| University | University of South Florida, B.A., Criminology, 1992 |
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| Law School | Thomas M. Cooley Law School, J.D., cum laude, 1999 |
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| Admitted | 2000, California and U.S. District Court, Southern District of California; 2004, Florida; 2007, U.S. District Court, Central District of California; 2008, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin |
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| Memberships | State Bar of California; Florida Bar; Central Florida Association of Women's Lawyers; Judicial Law Clerk of District Court in Lansing, Michigan, 1998-1999
Juvenile Dependency Attorney, Independent Contract Office, California, 2000-2001; Criminal Defense Attorney, California 2001-2002; Judicial Law Clerk to U.S. Chief Magistrate Judge R. Steven Whalen, U.S. District Court,
Eastern District of Michigan 2002-2004; Assistant Public Defender Ninth Judicial Circuit for Robert Wesley, Elected Public Defender for Orange and Osceola Counties, Florida 2004-2007; The American Association for Justice; Section on Toxic, Environmental, and Pharmaceutical Torts (STEP)
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| Born | Syracuse, New York, 1970 |
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| Biography | Nicole Maldonado is an attorney at Baum, Hedlund, Aristei & Goldman and focuses her practice on birth defect cases concerning antidepressants such as Celexa, Effexor, Lexapro, Pristiq, Prozac and Zoloft, and the anticonvusant drug, Topamax.
She was a criminal justice professor at Lansing Community College after graduating from Thomas M. Cooley Law School in 1999, where she also worked as a teaching assistant for three years while attending law school. She also worked as a judicial law clerk at various times for state and federal judges in Michigan. Shortly after graduating law school Nicole focused her career on Juvenile Dependency Law and private criminal defense work in San Diego, and then in public service as a public defender in Florida, before joining Baum Hedlund to work in mass tort product liability litigation.
Ms. Maldonado has volunteered legal services for the homeless, mentored elementary and high school students in trial competitions and most recently served as a mock trial judge for the AAJ's 2009 and 2010 Student Trial Advocacy Competitions. |
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| Reported Cases | Cunningham v. SmithKline Beecham, 255 F.R.D. 474 (N.D.Ind. 2009); Forst v. SmithKline Beecham Corp., 602 F.Supp.2d 960 (E.D.Wis. 2009); Forst v. SmithKline Beecham Corp., 639 F.Supp.2d 948 (E.D.Wis. 2009). |
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| ISLN | 915980404 |
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