Howard Kaplan Memorial Lecture on Law and Society-Litigation as a Tool for Change: the Sandy Hook Cases Against Remington and Alex Jones with Attorney Josh Koskoff

Connecticut Attorney Josh Koskoff, a third-generation partner in the firm Koskoff, Koskoff & Bieder, will deliver his talk Litigation as a Tool for Change: the Sandy Hook Cases Against Remington and Alex Jones during the annual Howard Kaplan Memorial Lecture on Law and Society.

Koskoff, a partner with the Connecticut firm Koskoff, Koskoff & Bieder, recently achieved two historic victories on behalf of families of victims of the Sandy Hook School shooting. In February, he won a groundbreaking $73 million settlement for nine families against Remington, the manufacturer and marketer of the AR-15 assault rifle used in the shooting. Earlier this month, with partners Chris Mattei and Alinor Sterling, Koskoff obtained a historic verdict on behalf of 14 family members and one first responder against conspiracy profiteer Alex Jones for peddling and profiting from false claims that the Sandy Hook shooting was a hoax, that the families were actors, and that nobody died in the shooting. The verdict of $965 million is believed to be the largest defamation verdict in American history.

In 2019, Josh filed another groundbreaking suit against Harvard University over its theft and possession of images of an enslaved man named Renty. The case was recently approved by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in what is believed to be the first case approving the right of a descendant of an enslaved person to seek emotional distress damages against an institution for the failure to involve the descendant in the use and misuse of images of their ancestor.

Howard C. Kaplan, a native of the Bronx, NY, moved to Stamford as a graduate of Yale Law School to join Wofsey, Rosen, Kweskin and Kuriansky, where he eventually became a partner and remained for his entire legal career. A pillar of the community, Kaplan also served on the Stamford Board of Representatives, and was a founding member of the Stamford Board of Ethics, president of the Stamford Child Care Center, and director and counsel to the Stamford Land Conservation Trust.

Reception to follow presentation.

Sponsored by the law firm Wofsey, Rosen, Kweskin and Kuriansky and the family of the late Howard Kaplan.