Defective products & dangerous drugs lawyers

Leslie-Anne Taylor represents people in mesothelioma and product-liability litigation and was counsel for the Lovells in their $42.6 million talc verdict against Johnson & Johnson.

Thomas M. Sobol originated the purchasers’ fraud-on-the-FDA antitrust case against Ranbaxy, settled for $485 million two weeks before trial.

Amy Collignon Gunn won Jefferson v. Missouri Baptist on hospital liability and tried a Hillrom boom-collapse case to a $38.4 million verdict.

Christopher Paulos led the Levin Papantonio team that proved Iran’s support caused attacks on U.S. troops in Iraq, securing a $983.6M judgment against Iran.

Cleveland civil-rights and mass-tort lawyer: a fee ruling over Cuyahoga County’s withheld jail-abuse video; co-lead counsel in the Suboxone MDL.

Dianne M. Nast leads the direct purchasers in Philadelphia’s generic-drug price-fixing MDL: eight settlements, certified bellwether classes, pro rata shares.

Sam Iola represents people and families in mesothelioma cases involving environmental asbestos, industrial talc, and other product exposures.

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.

Darin L. Schanker tried and argued Gresser v. Banner Health, a newborn sepsis case whose $27.6 million verdict stood above Colorado’s $1 million cap.

Esther E. Berezofsky litigates environmental mass-tort claims involving PFAS, lead-contaminated water, and other toxic exposures for families, property owners, and public clients.

Fidelma L. Fitzpatrick tries lead-paint, toxic-exposure, women’s health, and medical-device cases and has held leadership roles in major mass torts.

Ned McWilliams litigates PFAS drinking-water, environmental, and pharmaceutical mass-tort cases from Pensacola, Florida.

Elizabeth J. Cabraser led the Volkswagen Clean Diesel consumer settlements, whose buyback, repair, and claims design returned more than $9.5 billion.

Detroit lawyer Brian J. McKeen fought for depositions in Sophie Rassey’s death at Beaumont and tried the first cases over Yasser Awaad’s epilepsy diagnoses.

Mardirossian brought jurors to a scale model of a dangerous intersection. A hidden roadway sightline became visible, and a $35 million verdict followed.

Colleen Durkin Peterson tries PCB-exposure and catastrophic-injury cases, including the Sky Valley school litigation in Washington.

Brian S. Kabateck litigates class actions, mass torts, insurance disputes, consumer claims, catastrophic injury, and disaster cases.

John Fiske represents public entities in wildfire recovery, environmental contamination, opioid litigation, school-district claims, public-nuisance actions, bankruptcy proceedings, and coordinated litigation.

Kevin R. Dean was co-lead counsel for families of nine Charleston firefighters killed in the 2007 Sofa Super Store fire and sues Takata and ARC over airbags.

Anne McGinness Kearse litigates asbestos, household exposure, occupational disease, product liability, catastrophic workplace injury, and wrongful-death claims.

Kansas City lawyer Gary C. Robb tries helicopter and airplane crash cases against manufacturers and operators, including Turbomeca, Doncasters and FlyNYON.

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

Mikal C. Watts represented Lahaina fire survivors against Hawaiian Electric, Oregon wineries against PacifiCorp and Eaton Fire families suing Edison.

Scott Summy represents public water systems in PFAS, PCB, MTBE, atrazine, and other contamination litigation.