High-profile cases are not new to employment lawyer Nancy Erika Smith of Smith Mullin in Montclair, but 2016 proved to be a particularly eventful year, as Smith’s name appeared in connection with headline-making litigation.
In a putative whistleblower class action filed last December, Smith took up representation of plaintiffs claiming that Prudential Insurance Co. sold life insurance policies to Wells Fargo Bank customers without consent and through deception. The suit came in the wake of reports that Wells Fargo had been targeted by federal securities investigators for allegedly opening unauthorized accounts. (Prudential, for its part, denied the accusations against it).
