Johnson & Johnson announced that Attorneys at Lewitt, Hackman, Shapiro, Marshall & Harlan, a southern California law firm, filed a lawsuit regarding a Johnson & Johnson recall of DePuy metal on metal hip replacement devices. The firm filed the suit against DePuy Orthopedics, Inc. and its parent company Johnson & Johnson, Inc., on January 12, 2011 on behalf of a Los Angeles client. The lawsuit alleges DePuy and Johnson & Johnson designed, manufactured and sold a defective, prosthetic orthopedic implant. The client, who had to undergo a second complicated hip surgery to replace the defective implant is represented by Attorneys Andrew L. Shapiro, Thomas Cecil, and David B. Bobrosky at Lewitt Hackman. The personal injury attorneys say that in addition to intense pain from the failure of the device which caused a decline in walking and other physical abilities, the client may still suffer from potential metal poisoning and other complications. According to an August, 2010 article in The New York Times, surgeons implanted about 93,000 ASR XL Acetabular Systems used in traditional hip replacements, and ASR Hip Resurfacing Systems in partial hip replacements, internationally. The Johnson & Johnson recall was announced nearly two years after the Food and Drug Administration started receiving complaints about the total hip replacement and hip resurfacing devices.