Founders Kip Petroff and Suzi Zimmerman Petroff are donating all revenue from sales of their book Battling Goliath: Inside a $22 Billion Legal Scandal to New Hope Foundation. A plaintiff’s attorney, Kip Petroff was at the forefront of the historic fen-phen litigation. Battling Goliath is the inspirational true story of Petroff’s quest to bring justice to the six million individuals who trusted the pharmaceutical company responsible for the dangerous diet drug. Learn more about Battling Goliath: Inside a $22 Billion Legal Scandal at www.BattlingGoliath.com. BATTLING GOLIATH: Inside a $22 Billion Legal Scandal 100% of the authors’ revenue from sales of the book are given to New Hope Foundation!       Please check our website frequently to learn about our other on-going fundraising initiatives.

News Article: Fen-phen legal pugilist pays it forward Cheryl Hall Published: 19 November 2011 08:01 PM Dallas Morning News Kip Petroff wrote a tell-all book to keep from reaching for his nightly bottle of Grey Goose vodka. The founder and senior partner of Petroff & Associates LLP made a fortune leading the legal attack against Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories, the makers of diet drugs Pondimin and Redux (a.k.a. fen-phen). Petroff filed the nation’s first fen-phen personal injury lawsuit in the late 1990s. But a decade of threats of both professional and financial annihilation – the kind of heavy-handed corporate intrigue and deceit befitting a John Grisham tale – took a severe personal toll. Every evening, Petroff stewed alone at home, swigging down vodka and sometimes blacking out. “As fen-phen spun out of control, so did my drinking,” says Petroff, who went to his first Alcoholics Anonymous meeting on Jan. 24, 2007. To fill the void at 5 o’clock, which had been his nightly happy hour, Petroff began writing his fen-phen memoirs – as therapy and payback. Now he’s using the book to pay it forward. The 53-year-old plaintiff attorney is donating all the proceeds from his self-published Battling Goliath: Inside a $22 Billion Legal Scandal to fund programs at New Hope Foundation, a nonprofit group that helps unemployed people in one of Dallas’ most impoverished neighborhoods finish high school and find work. Petroff formed New Hope Foundation in late 2007. “When you’re praying to God, ‘Get me out of this, and I’ll never do wrong again,’ and he does, you can’t then say, ‘Well, I didn’t need you after all,’” he says. READ THE FULL ARTICLE AT DALLASNEWS.COM or CLICK HERE FOR PDF FILE

CEO BOOKSHELF Written by Glenn Hunter November 2011 issue of D CEO Any CEO whose company has been a litigation target would do well to read this account of attorney Kip Petroff’s 14-year-long crusade against Wyeth and American Home Products, makers of the fen-phen “miracle drug cocktail” for overweight people. Petroff, founder and senior partner of Dallas-based Petroff & Associates, says he’s been suing big companies on behalf of consumers for a quarter-century. But this case has obviously been his biggest. VIEW THIS ISSUE OF D CEO AT DMAGAZINE.COM or CLICK HERE FOR PDF FILE