Background on Chandra law firm

The Chandra law firm that obtained a healthcare lawsuit settlement from the Beacon Journal on behalf of retired printers and Guild retirees has a history of taking on "Not just cases. Causes," as its website says.

In 2008 the Chandra law firm in Cleveland got a multimillion dollar jury verdict against the Woodmere mayor in an employment-retaliation case. In 2006 the Chandra firm got a federal judge ruling that Ohio descriminated against naturalized U.S. citizens.

Managing partner Subodh Chandra is a former Cleveland law director and a Yale Law School graduate.

The Chandra firm's Donald Screen, point man for the Guild retirees lawsuit filed by John Olesky, is a graduate of the University of Virginia Law School and Old Dominion, also in Virginia. He once was an assistant professor in philosophy at the University of Virginia.

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