The Lawyers

Dena C. Sharp gave the closing in the $14.975 million Chart fertility-tank verdict and co-led the Lidoderm end-payor class to a $104.75 million settlement.

Charles P. Ward litigates Indiana personal-injury and wrongful-death cases involving evidence preservation, insurance coverage, medical liens, and the protection of recoveries.

Jared Hausmann litigates asbestos and mesothelioma cases involving discovery, causation disputes, post-trial motions, appeals, and amicus advocacy.

Earthjustice senior attorney in Seattle; argued for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe when the D.C. Circuit affirmed vacatur of the Dakota Access easement.

Alan Mills’s Illinois prisoners’ rights cases: the Tamms supermax appeal and trial, the statewide Davis solitary class, parole and deaf-prisoner settlements.

F. Paul Bland has spent decades keeping consumer cases alive through fights over forced arbitration, removal, mootness, preemption, and class treatment.

Lauren I. Freidenberg-McBride litigates civil-rights cases involving custodial death, medical neglect, excessive force, unlawful detention, habeas relief, and systemic reform.

Michael Rubin represents workers and benefits claimants in appellate, class, and public-interest litigation.

Sherrilyn A. Ifill is Howard Law’s Vernon Jordan Distinguished Professor in Civil Rights and founding director of the 14th Amendment Center for Law & Democracy.

Mona Lisa Wallace litigates environmental nuisance, toxic-exposure, and mass-tort cases involving contaminated water, industrial agriculture, and harm to homes and communities.

Brody D. Swanson litigates personal-injury, wrongful-death, trust, property, construction, family-business, and appellate disputes.

Anya Bidwell litigates constitutional tort, retaliation, and government-immunity cases, including Martin v. United States and Gonzalez v. Trevino.

Hina Shamsi directs the ACLU National Security Project. Her practice addresses government transparency, constitutional rights and international human rights.

Michael P. Canty’s investor-side record spans pharmaceutical, technology, insurance, and acquisition-related securities cases developed toward trial.

John C. Manly leads survivor litigation involving USA Gymnastics, USC, Michigan State, and the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.

Chicago civil-rights lawyer for James Gibson in his $14.75 million Burge torture settlement and Verona Gunn’s family in a $4.93 million police-crash verdict.

Stephen M. Kohn represents whistleblowers under the False Claims Act and the federal reward programs, from Bradley Birkenfeld’s $104 million IRS award to the SEC rules he helped write.

Randy Renick represents workers in wage-and-hour, living-wage, employment, and class-action litigation.

Omar C. Jadwat directs the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project and litigates asylum, entry restrictions, immigration enforcement, and constitutional claims.

Susan Talcott Camp litigates reproductive-rights cases. In Edwards v. Beck, she defended physicians challenging Arkansas’s twelve-week abortion prohibition.

Jonathan Gardner represents public pension funds and other investors in securities matters involving Uber, Barrick, Hewlett-Packard, Endo, Lehman Brothers, MF Global, and options backdating.

Danielle Lang leads voting-rights litigation at Campaign Legal Center, challenging unlawful voter-roll removals and barriers to election participation.

David Sanford is Co-Founder and Chairman of Sanford Heisler Sharp McKnight and Co-Chair of its Executive Representation Practice Group.