Best Law Firms in the United States for Product Liability Litigation - Plaintiffs

Nationally ranked at the highest levels of professional excellence, the attorneys of Chicago‑based Cooney & Conway have been providing exceptional legal services to injured people and their families for more than 50 years. In addition to its acclaimed asbestos litigation practice, the law firm also handles complex personal injury matters including, medical malpractice, products liability, premises liability, transportation accidents, construction accidents, and professional negligence. Fighting for those who have suffered catastrophic injuries or wrongful death, Cooney & Conway is known for aggressive, yet compassionate representation and for committed, responsive relationships with its clients. Understanding the devastation to clients brought by injury, illness, and death, the firm’s primary focus is ensuring that matters are resolved justly and expeditiously, so that future financial burdens can be relieved.

The attorneys of Cooney & Conway have mastered the complexities of mesothelioma and personal injury litigation, consistently and successfully helping thousands of injured clients and their families obtain fair compensation for injuries resulting from the negligence of others, including:

• $5.2 billion settlement agreement with the Owens Corning Asbestos Case
• $3.95 billion settlement agreement with USG Asbestos Personal Injury Trust
• $1.43 billion settlement agreement with the Combustion Engineering/ABB Asbestos Personal Injury Trust
• $1.2 billion settlement agreement with the Kaiser Aluminum Personal Injury Trust
• $35 million-dollar verdict against a major oil company in an asbestos death case
• $19.9 million-dollar verdict in a trucking accident death case
• $12.3 million verdict against an insulator who died of mesothelioma, whose case was tried to jury verdict in the Circuit Court of Cook County by Cooney and Conway attorneys John Cooney, William Fahey, and Jim Hopkinson. The verdict of compensatory damages of $12.3 million was reported as the largest single mesothelioma verdict nationwide ·
• $4.5 million settlement agreement in a wrongful death case resulting from drowning in a barge collision

The continued success of Cooney & Conway is a testament to its expertise, diligence, and dedication to its clients. This expertise and diligence has also earned Cooney & Conway the respect of judges, colleagues, and adversaries, alike. Serving the community with the highest standards of professionalism and ethics is what sets Cooney & Conway apart from other personal injury firms, and why it remains one of the most distinguished law firms in the nation.

Early, Lucarelli, Sweeney & Meisenkothen is a national law firm recognized for its representation of over 5,000 hardworking men and women who have been exposed to asbestos and diagnosed with mesothelioma. ELSM devotes nearly 100 percent of our resources to mesothelioma cases and has been doing so for over 40 years.

The attorneys at ELSM have extensive knowledge about the companies that distributed, manufactured, and supplied products containing asbestos and have used this knowledge to obtain settlements and jury verdicts which are among the highest in the country.

ELSM assists clients not only in filing civil lawsuits to recover for their injuries, but also in filing workers compensation and bankruptcy claims where appropriate.

Asbestos & Mesothelioma

Malignant mesothelioma is the most serious of all asbestos related disease. Although uncommon, mesothelioma cancer is no longer considered rare.

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Ongoing research and mesothelioma treatments like Alimta® can give mesothelioma patients hope.

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Your Legal Rights

Our justice system allows those suffering from mesothelioma to seek compensation from the manufacturers of asbestos and asbestos-containing products.

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Early, Lucarelli, Sweeney & Meisenkothen is nationally recognized for our representation of mesothelioma victims, and for our understanding of and compassion for victims and their families. Our experience in these matters spans over three decades.

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ELSM is proud to support MARF (Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation) in its work to fund mesothelioma research.

I am very pleased with the law firm Early, Lucarelli, Sweeney & Meisenkothen and feel that they have always had my best interest at heart. Whenever I have had questions to be answered, I could (and can) count on prompt answers by calling the person with whom I have had the most contact, Jennifer Lucarelli. She has always treated me like a life-long friend.

-Shirley Lamphere

Kiesel Law LLP is a prominent litigation firm based in Los Angeles, widely respected for its strong representation of individuals harmed by negligence, deceptive practices, unsafe products, and other forms of wrongdoing by corporations or institutions. The firm has built a reputation for delivering meaningful outcomes for its clients, consistently securing high-value settlements and verdicts in complex legal matters.

Our History

In April of 1999, Joseph Marasco and Donna Nesselbush joined hands as partners to establish the law firm of Marasco & Nesselbush.

Today, their unwavering friendship, old-fashioned work ethic, their commitment to each other and to the pursuit of justice, all continue to propel the firm. In 1999, Joe and Donna established the firm with just one legal assistant. Blessed with success, Marasco & Nesselbush has grown impressively over the years, today boasting an accomplished array of attorneys and dedicated support staff.

Our Values

Hard work, honesty, intelligence and integrity are the hallmarks at Marasco & Nesselbush.

Our unwavering commitment is to quality legal work, attention to detail and extraordinary results.

Our legal assistants and attorneys treat each client with dignity, respect, kindness and compassion, while we work vigorously to advocate and favorably resolve your case.

When we accept a case, we strive for nothing short of extraordinary results for each client.

Learn more at: www.m-n-law.com

Marsh, Rickard & Bryan, LLC is an award-winning, client-focused law firm of trial lawyers primarily handling catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases in Alabama and surrounding states. For more information, visit the firm's website at www.mrblaw.com.

McDonald, Levy & Taylor, PLLC was founded in 1980 by Marty McDonald and Farrell A. Levy. The firm is conveniently located in the western suburbs of Knoxville, Tennessee in the Town of Farragut. McDonald, Levy and Taylor engages in the general practice of law, with an emphasis on civil litigation. Attorneys in the firm practice in all state, federal, trial, and appellate courts, and have represented both plaintiffs and defendants in numerous thoughtful personal injury matters, including products liability and medical malpractice cases. Other areas of practice include  domestic relations, nursing home injuries, wills and estates, elder law, , construction and commercial litigation.

The goal of McDonald, Levy & Taylor is to provide its clients with competent legal representation and the highest degree of professional excellence. To help achieve this goal, the firm’s attorneys participate in numerous professional organizations, and also regularly attend and often speak at legal education seminars. McDonald, Levy and Taylor has also been a leader in utilizing sophisticated computer technology to better serve and communicate with its clients.  

Various attorneys in our firm have been honored by their peers. Mr. Levy has been selected multiple times by his peers as a Mid-South Super Lawyer. Being named as Super Lawyer is a great honor as only 5% of the attorneys in Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee are chosen. The selection process, which is merit based, involves peer nominations with ballots mailed to 23,000 Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee lawyers, a blue-ribbon panel review and independent research on candidates.  

Mr. Levy is also a member of the Litigation Counsel of America, which is a trial lawyer honorary society composed of less than one-half of one percent of American lawyers. Fellowship in the LCA is highly selective and by invitation only. Fellows are selected based upon effectiveness and accomplishment in litigation, both at the trial and appellate levels, and superior ethical reputation. Additionally, Charles G. Taylor has undertaken the necessary training to be recognized as Tennessee Supreme Court Rule 31 Listed Mediators.

We are also proud that we employ experienced highly trained legal assistants. Many on our staff have been with the firm for more than twenty years. Our staff includes Certified Legal Assistants who assist the attorneys in preparing cases and communicating with clients.  

You can be assured that the attorneys and staff at McDonald, Levy & Taylor will provide you with competent legal representation.

The Sanders & Parks Difference

Sanders & Parks, P.C., formerly known as Teilborg, Sanders & Parks, was formed in 1973 when James A. Teilborg, Frank A. Parks, and Richard B. Sanders pooled their considerable talents and experience to invent a new approach to legal representation. Although our firm has grown and its composition has changed over the years, we have remained committed to the principles of integrity, effectiveness, and client service first announced by our founding partners in 1973.

As we have learned through four decades of practice, whether in negotiation, litigation, mediation, or arbitration, our attorneys provide the highest quality legal representation while recognizing the need for a practical, cost-effective approach to litigation.

The A-V rated law firm of Sanders & Parks, P.C. offers diverse legal services to local, national, and international clients, who include some of the most prestigious insurance, business, banking, brokerage, financial, and corporate clients in the world. We are dedicated to providing quality legal service in a friendly and professional atmosphere, while applying the right combination of innovation, creativity, and commitment to each matter that we handle. Sanders & Parks, P.C. keeps clients involved in their cases, responds promptly to inquiries, and stays on top of changes in the law. Our innovative approach to client service blends the best of expertise, teamwork, and service.

For more information, please visit our website at https://www.sandersparks.com.

SUGARMAN is one of the oldest and most well-respected personal injury firms in Boston and Massachusetts. The firm traces its beginnings to the law practice of Nathan Fink, who began practicing law in 1920. Paul Sugarman, after service as an attorney in the U. S. Army JAG, joined Mr. Fink in 1958. Paul’s brother, Neil, joined the practice in 1967. The firm’s current principals - Neil Sugarman,  Marianne LeBlanc,  Benjamin Zimmermann, David McCormack and Stacey Pietrowicz - carry on the firm's tradition.  Paul Sugarman serves as Of Counsel for the firm. 

In addition to the firm's storied history of obtaining outstanding results for its clients and precedent-setting cases, attorneys at SUGARMAN have served in numerous leadership positions in local, state and national bar associations. The attorneys frequently lecture to bar groups as part of continuing legal education and to non-legal groups to educate the public about the legal system.

For over 60 years, SUGARMAN's attorneys have concentrated in representing injured persons and the families of those killed through the wrongful conduct of others. SUGARMAN has come to be recognized as one of the preeminent plaintiff’s trial firms in New England.

Taylor & Ring is an award-winning Los Angeles-based trial law firm representing plaintiffs across California in high-profile civil rights, personal injury, wrongful death, and sexual assault, abuse and harassment matters. Our firm has a reputation for tackling the hard cases – cases other personal injury lawyers are reluctant to take. With more than 200 jury trials and multimillion-dollar verdicts and settlements, Taylor & Ring knows what it takes to successfully represent victims.

Our attorneys bring a strategic and aggressive approach to the courtroom, while maintaining the highest professional standards of ethics and reliability in the representation of clients. Many of the firm's cases make local and national headlines for consistently achieving precedent-setting verdicts, settlements and published decisions that have a lasting impact and bring about critical institutional change.

Below is a short list of some of our successes in a range of matters:

• $102.5 Million Verdict: Childhood Sexual Abuse - Represented a former student who was sexually abused while attending Dartmouth Middle School in San Jose.
• $100 Million Judgment: Childhood Sexual Abuse - Represented a young girl who was sexually abused by her jiu-jitsu coach.
• $97.5 Million Settlement: Childhood Sexual Abuse - Represented multiple plaintiffs in the Santa Monica PAL/Eric Uller abuse cases.
• $61.7 Million Verdict: Car Accident - Two civilians engaged in a car chase in Torrance. Jesse Esphorst Sr. was seriously injured, and his 16 y.o. son, Jesse Esphorst Jr, died as a result of his injuries.
• $57.5 Million Verdict: Wrongful Death - Represented the families of three men who died in an aviation accident that resulted in insurance bad faith.
• $40 Million Settlement: Sexual Assault - Represented a group of women who were sexually abused by a school employee.
• $27 Million Settlement: Bullying Leading to Wrongful Death - Represented the family of a young boy who was bullied and killed at his school. This is the largest settlement in a bullying case in the United States.
• $20.2 Million Settlement: Wrongful Death - Represented the family of a 7-year-old child who drowned due to negligence.
• $18.6 Million Verdict: Auto v. Motorcycle Accident - Represented an individual involving the negligent entrustment of an automobile where a company president allowed his wife to drive a company-owned vehicle four days after she failed the DMV road exam and caused serious injury to a motorcyclist.
• $13 Million Verdict: Product Liability - Represented a 42-year-old truck driver who was rendered paraplegic after a defective forklift toppled over on top of him while he was making a delivery.
• $10 Million Judgment: Police Misconduct - Represented a family in a wrongful death case against the LAPD, 30 years in the making. In a published decision, the California Court of Appeal upheld the verdict against Los Angeles Police Detective Stephanie Lazarus for the murder of Sherri Rasmussen more than 30 years ago.

Taylor & Ring attorneys have received numerous prestigious honors and recognition for their work, including:

• CAALA Trial Lawyer of the Year and Rising Star

• Daily Journal Top 100, Top 40 Under 40, Top Plaintiffs Lawyers, Top Women Lawyers and Top Boutiques

• LA Times B2B Consumer Attorneys of SoCal

• Law360 Rising Stars

• Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America; 500 Leading Civil Rights & Plaintiff Employment Lawyers

• Los Angeles Business Journal Leader of Influence: Litigators & Trial Lawyers; Women of Influence: Attorneys

• National Law Journal Elite Trial Lawyers; Top Verdicts

• National Trial Lawyers Top 100 Trial Lawyers; Top 40 Under 40

• Southern California Super Lawyers; Top 10; Top 100; Rising Stars

Tiano O’Dell, PLLC is a Charleston, West Virginia-based law firm devoted to helping residents throughout the state recover compensation after devastating injuries. Our attorneys truly believe that injured clients deserve to be compensated for other people’s reckless conduct and that the families of deceased victims should be properly and generously compensated for their losses.

TorkLaw founder Reza Torkzadeh began practicing law in 2007, and founded TorkLaw in 2012. TorkLaw is a plaintiffs-only firm headquartered in Los Angeles, California, and exclusively represents victims of serious personal injury and those who have tragically lost a loved one as a result of wrongful death.

TorkLaw’s legal advocacy gives a voice to victims of catastrophic injury and wrongful death caused by someone else’s negligence or wrongdoing. Most of TorkLaw's cases involve victims of motor vehicle accidents, dangerous products, animal attacks, or unsafe conditions on a property (for instance, slip and fall accidents).

TorkLaw attorneys are award-winning, dedicated professionals who, like Reza, are committed to caring for clients experiencing some of the most challenging times of their lives, and helping them navigate a system that often seems designed to deny them justice. When TorkLaw attorneys take a case, our goals are not only to obtain appropriate legal compensation for our clients, but to also help make our communities safer from future misconduct, dangerous products and hazardous conditions.

Since the firm was established, we have expanded beyond California alone. We now serve Arizona, California, District of Columbia, Georgia, Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada, Texas, and Washington state.

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.

More than 50 years of Experience Fighting for the Injured

Regardless of the circumstance, suffering injuries is frustrating, frightening, and often life-changing. When the accident was caused by the negligence or wrongdoing of another person, the situation can become even more complex. In just a moment, your life can go from normal to tragic.

At Whitley Law Firm, we take pride in representing the wrongfully injured in Raleigh and all throughout North Carolina and understand your need for compassionate and responsive legal guidance. You can trust us to provide the service you deserve. Our Raleigh personal injury lawyers and support team offer more than 90 years of combined experience to help you obtain the financial damages you rightfully deserve. We are committed to helping clients obtain just compensation for their injuries and losses, using every available resource.