Find Lawyers in Alabama, United States for Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Plaintiffs
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Taylor Bartlett represents clients in complex litigation involving significant damages claims at both the trial and appellate levels. He has extensive experience in consumer class actions and pharmaceutical mass tort litigation. Since joining the firm in 2011, Taylor has successfully represented over 5,000 individuals and businesses throughout the United States. Taylor has also been appointed class counsel on multiple consumer class action lawsuits that resulted in settlements to the classes ...
Attorney William Bross, known by “Bill” to most, was born in Birmingham, Alabama, but lived overseas for many years as a child. He returned to Alabama, and has lived here since. Prior to becoming an attorney, Bill was a registered nurse, and worked for many years in various capacities at several hospitals throughout Birmingham. These included roles in neonatal intensive care, and surgical and emergency room nursing. He obtained an M.B.A (Master of Business Administration) and was ...
General background: Annesley H. DeGaris is the founding partner of the Birmingham, Alabama law firm DeGaris & Rogers, LLC. He is recognized nationally for mass tort litigation involving defective medical devices and pharmaceuticals. Mr. DeGaris also has an extensive practice in individual personal injury and wrongful death cases in a variety of circumstances, including motor vehicle collisions, tractor trailer collisions, and toxic exposures. He has litigated cases against major trucking ...
In an era when fewer and fewer civil cases go to trial, Skip Finkbohner has consistently won major court battles over a significant period of time and across a wide range of different types of cases, including wrongful death, product liability, complex commercial litigation, fraud, industrial accidents, environmental, medical malpractice, and others. Skip and his team examine the smallest of details and take the time to explain to juries the complex scientific, engineering and medical issues ...
Lew Garrison is one of the firm’s founders and primarily practices in the area of mass torts and pharmaceutical product liability. He also represents clients in other complex civil litigation. Lew decided to become an attorney because the profession was always intriguing to him. Even at a young age, he would go visit an attorney in his home town and ask questions about the law. During his first year of college, Lew would often go to the law school to study. To him, the legal profession ...
Chris Hood graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with distinction and honors. He obtained his law degree from Georgetown University, and he focuses his practice on consumer and environmental class actions, fraud and business torts, and personal injury or death caused by dangerous prescription medicines and medical devices. He also handles appeals in many of our firm’s major cases. His most notable appellate victory was reported in the NY Times on January 9, 2013...
Based in Birmingham, Alabama, Bobby LeMoine helps seriously injured individuals and their families in cases from coast to coast. He is a widely recognized litigator with a long track record of securing maximum verdicts and settlements. Bobby handles complex cases involving commercial trucking accidents, industrial accidents, premises liability, medical malpractice, and product liability. “Fighting for justice in the courtroom is the ultimate embodiment of being a lawyer. It is both chal...
Steve Nicholas is part of an elite group of Alabama litigators known for their skill in handling Bet-the-Company cases. A big picture thinker, his work revolves around complex litigation claims including class actions and mass torts. Among his many noteworthy cases is representing thousands of businesses who filed economic loss claims in connection with the BP oil spill, an event that is deemed to be the worst environmental disaster in the history of the United States. He has also recovered m...
Having already established a reputation as a trial lawyer with another firm, Scott Powell came to Hare, Wynn, Newell & Newton as a full partner in 1986. Since that time, his diverse practice has taken him throughout the states of Alabama, Arkansas, and Missouri as well as Texas, Tennessee, Ohio, Georgia, and Louisiana. Among the types of cases he has handled include litigation under the False Claims Act for qui tam plaintiffs, class action litigation involving complex legal issues, commer...
Honza Prchal is an associate of the firm whose areas of emphasis include mass torts, especially pharmaceutical and medical device work, and also general litigation. He has spent at least half his time on mass torts even before he started working with W. Lewis Garrison, Jr. in 1998, and he continues to enjoy helping clients navigate and understand an esoteric and confusing area of law where it is far too easy and far too common for clients to feel like numbers, rather than individuals with cla...
Brandy Robertson is an attorney at Heninger Garrison Davis, LLC, practicing in the areas of personal injury, wrongful death and medical malpractice matters. She began her career in the legal field as a legal secretary having earned an Associate’s Degree from Gadsden State Community College in Paralegalism. Brandy worked as a paralegal while she obtained her undergraduate and law degrees. Brandy received her B.A. from the University of Alabama at Birmingham in Criminal Justice and her J....
Jeanie Sleadd practices in the firm’s mass tort group with a focus on pharmaceutical and medical device litigation. In addition to mass torts and class actions, Jeanie represents clients in an array of matters including product liability, worker’s compensation, FELA, wrongful death, slip and falls, contract disputes, and ERISA cases. Jeanie received her law degree from the University of Alabama School of Law. While in law school, she was a member of the Alabama Law Review where sh...
Brett Turnbull has embraced the philosophy of keeping clients first in distinguishing himself as a leading trial lawyer. He is nationally recognized for obtaining top-dollar jury verdicts and settlements on behalf of clients killed or injured by the negligent and wrongful actions of others. When Brett goes before a jury, he realizes he has one job: to get justice for his clients by proving their claims and guiding the jury to award a fair and reasonable verdict. Brett has more than a decade o...
Amanda represents clients injured by harmful medical drugs and devices, defective products, and fraudulent practices. She has years of experience in national mass tort consolidation. Amanda was appointed to the Plaintiff’s Executive Committee in In re Depakote where she represented children with serious birth defects against the manufacturer of the drug Depakote. Amanda’s practice also focuses on other personal injury cases including medical negligence and nursing home abuse where...
Alexandra Calton is a personal injury attorney at DeGaris Law. Her practice areas include catastrophic personal injury, product liability, defective medical devices, wrongful death, medical negligence, and nursing home negligence. Prior to joining DeGaris Law, Alexandra worked as a law clerk for the County Attorney of Barbour County, Alabama and the Municipal Court for the City of Eufaula, Alabama. Alexandra previously served as the Treasurer of the Cumberland Sports Law Society and was invol...
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