Toxic exposure & environmental harm lawyers

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

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

John Paul Guinan litigates mesothelioma and toxic-exposure cases involving take-home asbestos, cosmetic talc, product causation, and abuse claims.

Chris J. Panatier tries toxic-exposure cases involving mesothelioma, asbestos, cosmetic talc, expert causation, damages, and appellate preservation.

Amber R. Long tries and appeals cases involving asbestos, toxic exposure, and abuse in residential treatment facilities.

Christina Cossich, on the AFFF MDL 2873 plaintiffs’ executive committee since 2019, represents water systems such as Bridgeport, Ohio, in PFAS settlements.

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

The illness may appear years after the exposure. Greenwald helped negotiate the Deepwater Horizon medical settlement, including a route for qualifying people whose conditions emerged later.

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

Gary J. Douglas has tried landmark PFAS contamination cases and led public-water claims in the federal AFFF litigation.

Robert A. Bilott took a farmer’s call about a dying herd in 1998 and forced PFOA into the open: a class of seventy thousand water drinkers, a science panel written into a settlement, and the national limit that followed.

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

Scott R. Frieling tries and appeals toxic-tort cases involving benzene, asbestos, PCBs, pesticides, industrial exposure, expert evidence, and latent disease.

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

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

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

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

Wilson M. Dunlavey litigates environmental torts, consumer fraud, product liability, climate-related claims, and class actions.

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.

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.

Michael A. London, co-lead counsel in the AFFF firefighting-foam MDL, is class counsel for public water systems in settlements with 3M, DuPont, Tyco and BASF.

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

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

Christopher V. Tisi opened for the Casaretto family in a $20 million talc verdict against J&J and tried and argued Decker v. GE Healthcare over Omniscan.