Michael Hausfeld...is the doyen of group litigation. His clients have included native Alaskans hit by the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill, Texaco workers in a record-breaking $176m...racial discrimination suit and victims of the Holocaust in their action against the Swiss banks...Hausfeld has set his sights well beyond Europe and the lawyer is heading a unique international network of likeminded lawyers...[claiming] this network includes representative firms in "the UK, France, Germany, Italy, South Africa, Korea, Columbia, Panama, Australia and Canada" - so far. [also refers to Merck, Anglo American, Barclays, IBM]