Best Law Firms in Texas for Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Plaintiffs

When you need to file a lawsuit against a pharmaceutical company, it’s important to have an attorney at your side who is experienced in dealing with the complexity of pharmaceutical litigation and who has successfully stood up to these big companies. Blizzard Law, PLLC was founded by trial lawyers who wanted to take the skill and knowledge gained from representing large corporations and insurance companies and use it for the benefit of individuals injured by defective drugs and products.

Our nationwide practice has recovered verdicts for thousands of individuals throughout the United States. Our more than 40 years’ experience in this field give us an advanced perspective on the complex legal issues involved in pharmaceutical and personal injury cases. This experience and success has earned Blizzard Law, PLLC an outstanding reputation for success that is acknowledged by our peers. We have aggressively represented thousands of individuals from all over the country against some of the largest corporations and drug companies in the world, including Bristol-Myers, GlaxoSmithKline, Merck, Bayer, Pfizer, and Dow Chemical.

SIGNIFICANT VERDICTS AND SETTLEMENTS

Blizzard Law, PLLC has achieved substantial verdicts and settlements for our clients. We have successfully tried cases all over the country in front of judges and juries. Over the past 25 years, Blizzard Law, PLLC has been involved in some of the largest pharmaceutical jury verdicts and settlements in the country.

• Principal negotiators in Vioxx Settlement with Merck
• Chief negotiators in the Dow Corning Settlements
• Principal negotiators in the Sulzer Hip Implant Settlements

LEADERSHIP ROLES

Ed Blizzard has served in leadership roles in some of the most groundbreaking pharmaceutical and medical device litigations, including Zoloft, Effexor, Vioxx, Fen-Phen, Ephedra, Digitek, Baycol, Paxil, Silicone Breast Implants, and Sulzer Hip Implants. This leadership experience puts Blizzard Law, PLLC at the forefront of the mass tort field. The excellence of our legal work inside and outside of the courtroom has been recognized by state and federal courts which have appointed us to leadership roles in numerous large mass tort litigations:

• Appointed to six-member Negotiating Plaintiffs’ Committee and nine-member Fee Allocation Committee in the Vioxx MDL
• Ed Blizzard served as the chair of the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee in Ephedra Litigation, MDL 1598
• Ed Blizzard was one of five lawyers appointed to negotiate Sulzer Hip Implant Litigation MDL 1401
• Appointed to Steering Committee in the Diet Drug Litigation, MDL 1203
• Appointed to Steering Committee in Silicone Breast Implant Litigation
• Chief negotiator of the Dow Corning settlement
• Appointed to the State Liaison Committee in the Baycol Proceedings
• Appointed to Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee in the New York ReNu and MoistureLoc proceedings
• Appointed to Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee in Digitek Litigation MDL 1968
• Appointed to Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee in Denture Cream MDL

We are proud of our firm and its accomplishments. We believe our clients are entitled to representation that meets the standards upon which this firm was built: excellence, dedication and integrity. The legal team at Blizzard Law PLLC is composed of aggressive, hardworking trial attorneys who are zealous advocates for their clients. The attorneys at Blizzard Law are focused on seeking the compensation their clients deserve.

PRACTICE AREAS

• Personal Injury
• Dangerous Drugs
• Defective Devices
• Sexual Assault
• Human Trafficking

Kelly Hart & Hallman has been a trusted provider of comprehensive legal services to some of the most innovative and successful businesses, individuals, and governmental entities in the country for over four decades. Our exceptional lawyers and exceptional clients have been instrumental in our continued success. Kelly Hart & Hallman LLP, also known as Kelly Hart, is a leading business-to-business law firm offering a wide range of legal services. With a team of more than 160 attorneys specializing in over 20 substantive areas of the law, we deliver creative and strategic legal solutions to address our clients’ most intricate business challenges.

Our esteemed client base includes Fortune 500 companies, financial institutions, individuals, foundations, investor groups, and governmental entities, all of whom rely on us for their legal needs. Our extensive areas of practice encompass administrative law, appellate law, aviation law, banking and finance law, business reorganization and bankruptcy law, corporate and securities law, energy law, environmental law, estate planning and probate, government enforcement and investigation, health care law, intellectual property and technology law, labor and employment law, litigation, nonprofit organizations, oil and gas/energy law, public finance law, real estate law, tax law, transportation law, and water law.

At Kelly Hart, we are committed to delivering exceptional legal representation and value to our clients, utilizing our depth of knowledge and experience across various legal disciplines.

The Lyons & Simmons, LLP story began when Trial Lawyers Michael Lyons and Chris Simmons joined together intending to start a law firm that truly cares about its clients. Since our formation, Lyons & Simmons has handled some of the most important and complex cases in the country while securing record-setting results. For example, just in recent history, the firm obtained the largest verdict in a wrongful death personal injury case in the history of Midland County, Texas, and has secured the largest settlement in a wrongful death case in the history of the state of Oklahoma for a single adult wrongful death claimant. Our results on behalf of a former Power 5 head football coach in a high profile breach of contract case earned the firm a place among the finalists for the National Law Journal's Elite Trial Lawyers Awards.

Our work has earned multiple statewide and national recognitions, including Super Lawyers, the Million Dollar, and Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forums, The Best Lawyers in America, America’s Top 100 High Stakes Litigators, D Magazine’s Best Lawyers in Dallas, Best Personal Injury Firm by Texas Lawyer, the John Howie Award from the Dallas Trial Lawyers Association, Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Consumer Lawyers, the National Law Journal Plaintiffs’ Lawyers Trailblazers and as one of the "Best Law Firms" by US News & World Report.

Committed to Protecting Your Rights

As a boutique firm, Lyons & Simmons, LLP has the flexibility many larger law firms lack, but without forsaking results. Our unflinching pursuit of justice leads us into courtrooms not only across Texas, but the rest of the country as well.

Simply put, our size allows us to focus on cases that matter and give our clients the personalized attention and support they deserve.

Practice Areas

Personal Injury

• Amputation/Limb Loss
• Aviation Accidents
• Brain Injuries
• Burn Injuries
• Construction Accidents
• Fire & Explosions
• Motor Vehicle Accidents
• Industrial Plant & Refinery Accidents
• Premises Liability
• Products Liability
• Spinal Cord Injuries
• Wrongful Death

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Simon Greenstone Panatier PC is a leading law firm with 6 lawyers recognized by Best Lawyers across 3 practice areas. The firm's tenure with Best Lawyers began in 2024. Having lawyers recognized in Best Lawyers' purely peer review process emphasizes the lawyers credibility and reputation for their practice amongst their peers in their practice area and region. It displays professional validation of the legal talent that Simon Greenstone Panatier PC has on their team. The firm has lawyers recognized in practice areas including: Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Plaintiffs, Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs and Product Liability Litigation - Plaintiffs.

Simon Greenstone Panatier PC is also ranked by Best Law Firms in 3 practice areas. The Best Law Firms rankings are founded on a time-tested and transparent research process that has remained consistent since Best Lawyers launched it in 2010. Simon Greenstone Panatier PC has 3 rankings in 3 practices. Echoing their Best Lawyers awards and team of top legal talent.

Founded in 1990 by noted trial lawyer Mark Lanier, The Lanier Law Firm is recognized as one of the premier trial law firms in the United States. The firm’s experienced trial attorneys represent companies and individuals across the country from offices in Houston, New York, Los Angeles and Dallas/Fort Worth.

The firm’s vast trial experience includes substantial verdicts in cases involving asbestos exposure and mesothelioma, serious personal injuries, product liability, dangerous drugs, business fraud, and other civil litigation. The firm also is noted for its work defending some of the country’s largest companies. For example, in 2016, Mr. Lanier won two federal trial jury verdicts that together totaled more than $1.5 billion in litigation over metal-on-metal hip implants manufactured by DePuy Orthopaedics Inc., a subsidiary of New Brunswick, New Jersey-based Johnson & Johnson. In April 2014, Mr. Lanier and the firm won a record verdict against pharmaceutical giants Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. and Eli Lilly & Co. over the dangerous side effects of the diabetes medication Actos, which ranked as the 7th largest verdict in U.S. history. More recently, Mr. Lanier secured a historic $4.69 billion verdict against Johnson & Johnson in the first trial verdict to affirm the link between asbestos-laden talcum powder and ovarian cancer.

Although record-setting legal victories are a firm trademark, the primary focus remains with Mr. Lanier’s original vision to provide “the highest quality legal care delivered in an honest, professional manner to enrich the lives or businesses of our clients.” Every attorney at The Lanier Law Firm is committed to solving clients’ problems while working toward favorable legal resolutions.

Mr. Lanier serves as the firm's lead litigation counsel and is recognized as one of the nation’s top trial lawyers. In addition to his Best Lawyers in America recognition, Mr. Lanier was named Lawyer of the Year in Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions by Best Lawyers and has been highlighted among the top 10 attorneys in Texas in the annual Texas Super Lawyers magazine, and featured in Texas Lawyer’s “Go-To Guide” as the state’s premiere personal injury attorney and as one of "The 25 Greatest Texas Lawyers of the Past Quarter Century."

The National Law Journal has recognized Mr. Lanier as one of the nation's Top 10 Trial Attorneys on two different occasions and highlighted him as one of the "100 Most Influential Lawyers in America" and one of the "Decade's Most Influential Lawyers." Following his victory in the nation’s first trial over the pain medication Vioxx, Mr. Lanier was described in The New York Times as “one of the top civil trial lawyers in America.”

Chambers USA and The Legal 500 ranked The Lanier Law Firm among the nation's leading firms for work in Plaintiffs' Product Liability and Mass Tort Class Actions. Editors of The National Law Journal named The Lanier Law Firm among its list of Elite Trial Lawyers and as the nation's top-ranked law firm in the area of Medical Device Litigation.

A strong supporter of his alma mater, Mr. Lanier earned his law degree from Texas Tech University School of Law in 1984. He remains active at Texas Tech by serving on the Law School's Foundation Board and was previously honored as the Texas Tech University School of Law Distinguished Alumnus.

Another hallmark of The Lanier Law Firm is its dedication to professional and community involvement. Mr. Lanier is the founder of the Christian Trial Lawyers Association, a nonprofit organization whose goal is to create a network of principled attorneys to minister to others through civic-minded endeavors. Mr. Lanier also serves on the board of trustees for the Committee for Economic Development, a group of business and education leaders committed to improving the growth and productivity of the U.S. economy and greater opportunity for all Americans.

All the firm’s attorneys and staff support numerous local charities, including Houston’s SIRE therapeutic equestrian centers, Los Angeles’ Midnight Mission, the San Francisco non-profit Legal Services for Children, and New York’s Bowery Mission Children of Bellevue.

"It's More Than A Case. It's A Cause."

There’s a reason why clients choose Waters Kraus Paul & Siegel to fight their tough fights again and again. 

Waters Kraus Paul & Siegel is a national plaintiffs’ law firm dedicated to helping families in personal injury and wrongful death cases involving asbestos exposure, dangerous pharmaceuticals and defective medical devices, as well as toxic chemical exposure from commercial farming pesticides like Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide, Johnson & Johnson’s talc-based products, and semiconductor chip, aerospace and industrial manufacturing.

The firm’s hard earned reputation for advocacy includes:

• Qui tam whistleblower litigation exposing fraud, waste and abuse of government programs and spending under the False Claims Act. 

• Sexual abuse litigation holding institutions accountable when they fail to protect children from sexual abuse.

• Mesothelioma litigation against suppliers and manufacturers that fail to protect workers, consumers and their families from exposure to cancer-causing asbestos.

• Toxic exposure litigation on behalf of individuals exposed to benzene and other harmful chemicals in the workplace and by other means.

• Birth defect litigation on behalf of children born with serious medical conditions caused by their parents’ exposure to toxic chemicals at work, including employees of Boeing manufacturing plants.

• Catastrophic personal injury litigation on behalf of individuals harmed by negligent trucking and transportation companies, dangerous worksites and others.

Waters Kraus Paul & Siegel trial lawyers are committed to using the firm’s resources and collective legal firepower to achieve justice for individuals against powerful corporate interests. The firm is a leader in contingent fee litigation, assuming all risks and expenses so clients pay nothing unless they win.

With a high partner-to-associate ratio, clients know their cases are handled by experienced litigators. Waters Kraus Paul & Siegel attorneys have recovered over $1.3 billion for their clients and are renowned for their advocacy on behalf of individuals and families affected by hazardous exposures and defective products.

Based in Dallas and with offices in Los Angeles and Moline, Illinois, Waters Kraus Paul & Siegel has represented families from all fifty states and many foreign countries, as well as foreign governments. Learn more about our practice and how we can help you at www.waterskraus.com.