Defective products & dangerous drugs lawyers

Dara Hegar manages mass-tort litigation involving multi-plaintiff trials, product liability, negotiations with public entities, settlement allocation, and national case strategy.

Ellen Relkin co-led the DePuy ASR hip implant litigation to a $2.5 billion settlement, helped run its claims program, and co-leads the Exactech MDL.

Diandra “Fu” Debrosse represents Glenn Foster Jr.’s widow over his Pickens County jail death and co-leads the national preterm infant-formula NEC litigation.

N. Kirkland Pope helped try the first Wright Conserve hip bellwether, upheld on appeal, and was appointed co-lead counsel in the Profemur and Exactech MDLs.

Khaldoun Baghdadi was on the trial team in Kransky v. DePuy, the first ASR hip case to reach a jury, and court-appointed liaison counsel in the PG&E fire cases.

Ricardo M. Martinez-Cid tried Johnson v. Continental Motors to a $5 million verdict over a Cessna 421 engine damper and led Surfside’s wrongful-death subclass.

Jessica M. Dean tries mesothelioma and cosmetic-talc cases involving expert evidence, successor liability, damages, verdict preservation, and appellate review.

Lead counsel for Camp Lejeune plaintiffs in North Carolina federal court; helped draft the Act’s lower burden of proof and pressed for kidney-cancer trials.

Mike Papantonio tried Carla Bartlett’s C-8 kidney-cancer case, the first of about 3,500 against DuPont to reach a jury, then David Freeman’s malice trial.

Leigh O’Dell co-led federal talc cases against Johnson & Johnson through three dismissed bankruptcies and tried Gayle Emerson’s case in Philadelphia.

Jonathan D. Orent led the Atrium C-QUR hernia mesh MDL, negotiated its settlement, and tried Trevino v. Davol to a negligence verdict against Bard.

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

Rachel Abrams co-leads the federal sexual-assault cases against Uber and Lyft; her client Jaylynn Dean’s case brought the first bellwether verdict against Uber.

Brian Panish tries catastrophic-injury and product-liability cases involving defective products, corporate safety decisions, and mass-casualty events.

Class counsel in the $248 million Taishan Chinese drywall settlement and co-lead counsel in the Philips CPAP MDL’s $25 million medical monitoring settlement.

Elizabeth A. Fegan represents plaintiffs in class actions and mass torts involving injuries dispersed across large groups.

Leslie A. Brueckner handles appeals involving product safety, consumer class actions, medical warnings, newsgathering rights, environmental remedies, and federal preemption.

Gerald Singleton is a managing attorney at Singleton Schreiber. His wildfire work includes representing fire victims and service on the PG&E Fire Victim Trust Oversight Committee.

John J. Uustal tried Connie Buonomo’s Engle tobacco case against R.J. Reynolds to a 2010 Broward verdict that the Fourth District affirmed in 2016.

Sarah London tried the first federal Uber sexual assault bellwether to an $8.5 million verdict and co-leads the national Uber and Roblox litigation.

Tab Turner represents families in rollover and tire-failure cases, including Cooper Tire v. Tuckier and a $131 million Explorer verdict against Ford.

Daniel McGee tries product-liability, catastrophic-injury, brain and spinal injury, toxic-tort, and wrongful-death cases.

Aimee H. Wagstaff tries pesticide and medical-product cases and has held national leadership roles in the federal Roundup litigation.

Jim Butler tries auto-defect cases for Georgia families, including Brogdon v. Ford, the Super Duty roof case that drew a $2.5 billion punitive verdict.