Freeborn & Peters LLP

A federal judge’s granting of conditional class-action status to workers in a lawsuit against a slaughterhouse in Kansas demonstrates the legal liability and great expense food processing companies can incur over their wage payment policies.

PepsiCo and Ocean Spray Cranberries’ newly formed Latin American strategic alliance may be indicative of a resurging trend in joint ventures and co-packaging arrangements in the food industry, says Brian A. Smith, a Food Industry Team lawyer at Freeborn & Peters LLP in Chicago whose specialties include structuring of manufacturing and distribution joint ventures in Latin America.