Toxic exposure & environmental harm lawyers

Patrick A. Salvi II tried Kamuda v. Sterigenics to a $363 million ethylene-oxide verdict and helped settle more than 870 Willowbrook cases for $408 million.

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

A police van ran a red light after repeated orders to slow down. DiSilvestro worked on Verona Gunn’s family’s case, which ended in a $4.93 million jury award.

Seth A. Katz, co-lead class counsel in the East Palestine derailment case: the soil sampling, the $600 million Norfolk Southern settlement and its payouts.

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

Sarah S. Doles, co-lead and liaison counsel for plaintiffs in the federal Paraquat MDL since 2021, helped carry Parkinson’s claims to a 2025 master settlement.

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

Trent B. Miracle co-led the AndroGel testosterone MDL against AbbVie over Low T marketing and heart risks and is co-lead counsel in the Suboxone film MDL.

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

Cary S. McGehee has represented Flint residents since 2015, from the Mays class action and $626.25 million settlement to the negligence case against the EPA.

Edgar N. Romano represents workers in occupational-disease, asbestos, industrial-exposure, and World Trade Center claims, including administrative and appellate review.

Jayne Conroy tried Suffolk County’s opioid case to a verdict against Teva and helped negotiate $13.8 billion in settlements with CVS, Walgreens and Walmart.

Mark Lanier tried Ingham v. Johnson & Johnson, the St. Louis talc and ovarian cancer case that ended in J&J’s payment of about $2.5 billion in 2021.

Lead trial lawyer for Cuyahoga County in the first federal opioid bellwether and Nassau County’s counsel in New York’s public-nuisance trial against Teva.

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

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.

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.