25 Depositions of UCI Liver Transplant Witnesses Scheduled by Irvine Attorneys Eisenberg & Gray LLP.

IRVINE, Calif. -- The Irvine law firm of Eisenberg & Gray LLP has scheduled depositions of 25 witnesses involved in the UCI Liver Transplant Scandal. Eisenberg & Gray are representing more than 30 families and former UCI patients affected by the UCI Liver Transplant Scandal.

"We have identified individuals including UCI physicians, administrators and staff whose testimony under oath will verify the fraud, misrepresentation and wrongdoing that occurred at the UCI Transplant Program over a number of years," said attorney Larry Eisenberg. "The testimony will prove that doctors and staff routinely concealed the problems at UCI while they continued to accept more liver transplant patients in an effort to finance their failing transplant program. They operated under a culture of deceit by failing to disclose to patients that:

--UCI rejected donor livers at a higher rate than any other transplant program in California;

--UCI had insufficient surgeons and staff to perform the required minimum number of transplants;

--UCI had an unacceptable survival rate below federal standards.

"UCI clearly put the alleged prestige of the medical center ahead of the best interests of their patients and many of them died while waiting for a transplant. We certainly agree with UCI Chancellor Drake's public comments that UCI needs a really big fix and that they should be held responsible," said Eisenberg.

Eisenberg & Gray is the only law firm in California who has already litigated two liver transplant cases against UCI over the last two years. On behalf of several families and patients, the firm is also investigating improprieties that occurred at St. Vincent's Liver Transplant Program in Los Angeles.

As liaison counsel for UCI fertility patients, Eisenberg previously negotiated a $10 million settlement against UCI in 1997, concerning fertility doctors who stole patients' eggs without consent. Eisenberg & Gray has litigated more than 65 cases against UCI resulting in settlements in excess of $13.5 million for their clients.