The Lanier Law Firm is a product liability lawyer team in Houston, TX, with offices in New York and Los Angeles. Mark Lanier founded the practice in 1990, and it now has more than 50 attorneys.
The firm has won over $20 billion for clients across three decades. Notable results include a $4.69 billion verdict linking baby powder, asbestos and ovarian cancer, plus a $9 billion Actos verdict against Takeda and Eli Lilly.
Cases cover asbestos exposure, pharmaceutical liability, toxic torts and maritime law. Mesothelioma and injury matters are handled on a no-win, no-fee basis with no upfront costs.
A $4.9 billion jury verdict in Anderson v. General Motors still stands as one of the largest auto defect awards in American history. Senior partner Brian Panish tried that case.
His Los Angeles firm has since secured more than $10 billion for clients. Other results include $55.4 million for a tire tread separation and $58 million for a defective part on a construction vehicle.
The team handles defective products, catastrophic injury, and wrongful death claims. Staff speaks eleven languages, and the firm ranks Tier 1 for plaintiffs' personal injury litigation. Anyone hurt by a dangerous product can reach a product liability attorney here at no cost.
Since 1985, Lytal, Reiter, Smith, Ivey & Fronrath has represented injured Floridians and their families. The firm has recovered more than $2.5 billion, including an $11 million product liability verdict in Palm Beach County.
Two dozen trial attorneys work alongside paralegal investigators and a registered nurse paralegal. Any defective product lawyer here can draw on that in-house investigative bench.
Offices run from Palm Beach Gardens down to Fort Lauderdale and across to Fort Myers. Cases include catastrophic accidents, medical malpractice and fatal crashes.
Wilshire Law Firm employs more than 500 legal professionals out of Los Angeles. Best Law Firms ranked it Tier 1 for product liability litigation in Los Angeles for three straight years.
Over $3 billion has been recovered for injured Californians. Recent results include a $35.2 million tractor-trailer trial verdict and a $25 million consumer class action over deceptive advertising.
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Justin Hill is a personal injury trial attorney in San Antonio and the founder of this practice. He handles defective product claims alongside work injuries, truck crashes, and dog bites.
Results include an $11.9 million oil field explosion settlement and a $10 million commercial bus crash recovery. The firm reports a 99% success rate and takes cases across Texas on contingency.
Few California firms have built a practice around auto defects the way Bisnar Chase has. Managing partner Brian Chase oversees cases involving dangerous and defective consumer goods.
Verdicts include $32.7 million against seat manufacturer Johnson Controls and $24.7 million for a defective seatback. The firm has represented over 12,000 clients since 1978, with $1 billion recovered and a 99% success rate.
Offices sit in Newport Beach, Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino and San Diego. Staff speak Spanish and Persian.
Based in Oklahoma City, McIntyre Law brings 90-plus years of combined experience to accident and defective goods claims. The team has won over half a billion dollars for clients.
Active dockets cover Roundup, paraquat, talcum powder, AFFF foam and Philips CPAP recalls. The firm runs its own jury focus groups before trial, which is unusual for a practice this size.
Michael S. Burg started this Colorado practice in 1976 to take on cases most firms avoided. Fifty years later, Burg Simpson has recovered more than $2 billion nationwide.
A $55 million product defect result sits near the top of its case list. Current work includes hernia mesh, Roundup, fire foam and Exactech device recalls. Offices operate in Colorado, Arizona, Florida, Ohio and Wyoming.
Guerra LLP is a national trial practice headquartered in San Antonio, with additional offices in Odessa and San Francisco. Its attorneys have litigated thousands of lawsuits against some of the largest corporations in America.
Work spans defective goods, mass torts, environmental torts, fire litigation and aviation crashes. Frank Guerra IV holds board certification in personal injury trial law from the Texas Board of Legal Specialization.
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Working from Dallas, Los Angeles, New York and Houston, Simon Greenstone Panatier tries cases anywhere in the country. Mesothelioma and toxic tort claims anchor the practice.
A Minnesota jury returned a $10.2 million talc mesothelioma verdict for the firm in 2026. Other dockets include IVC filters, surgical mesh, hip replacements, GM ignition switches and paraquat.
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Kline & Specter keeps a team of attorneys who are also licensed physicians, which is rare in this field. Tom Kline and Shanin Specter lead the Philadelphia practice.
Defect claims range widely: button batteries, hoverboard fires, water beads, defective guns, pressure cookers, IKEA furniture tipping and transvaginal mesh. The firm takes cases in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and New York.
An $85 million settlement with Mercedes-Benz USA over seat heaters that overheated shows what this Westwood firm does with manufacturing defect claims. A $300 million Epson printer cartridge settlement sits beside it.
Three generations of the McNicholas family have tried cases here since 1993, with $3 billion in results. The three partners share over 400 jury trials to verdict.
Defective tires, airbags, industrial machinery and lithium-ion batteries make up much of the docket.
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Brothers David and Harry Herman opened this New Orleans practice in 1942, reportedly out of a shoe store. Three generations of the family have practiced there since.
Recoveries top $35 billion, including the Deepwater Horizon settlement and $85 million after an industrial accident. Dangerous goods work covers Roundup, paraquat, baby formula and Camp Lejeune water contamination.
McDonald Worley runs its main office in Houston and takes injury cases nationwide. Product recall claims include IVC filters, metal hip implants, hernia mesh, Roundup and VW diesel emissions.
Founding attorney Don Worley hosted the courtroom series Power of Attorney on Investigation Discovery. Additional offices sit in Washington, New York, Fort Lauderdale and Las Vegas.
A $976 million award for a defective seatbelt stands as the largest auto defect result in Pennsylvania history. This Spruce Street firm won it.
Other results include $55.3 million over a Honda seatbelt failure and $36.5 million in a defective tire case. Total recoveries pass $4 billion, and Nancy Winkler was named Philadelphia Lawyer of the Year for product liability litigation.
Breit Biniazan recovered $1 billion for the state of Alabama over the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Total verdicts and settlements now exceed $2 billion.
The Virginia Beach firm handles defective machinery, pharmaceutical litigation and catastrophic injury. Offices also operate in Richmond, Portsmouth and Phoenix, and the team works on contingency.
Sean Breen won Nester v. Textron for a client left quadriplegic by a defective utility vehicle. It was the largest injury verdict of its kind in Western District of Texas history.
He later secured $53.9 million in a burn and paralysis case. The Austin firm has tried cases since 1995 and also runs offices in Georgetown and Snowmass Village, Colorado.
Damon Mathias and Ori Raphael lead this Dallas plaintiffs practice, now past 20 years of injury litigation. Defective goods, dangerous drugs and third-party crime claims sit alongside crash work.
Results include an $8 million wrongful death settlement. Satellite offices operate in Houston and Chicago.
KBD Attorneys, formerly Ketterer Browne & Associates, works from Bel Air, Maryland, with offices in Florida and Massachusetts. The team has recovered over $100 million in drug injury and defective device claims.
Nursing home neglect is the other pillar, including a $10 million dehydration verdict. Attorneys are licensed in MD, DC, NC, FL, MA and PA.
Defects Lawyer is a legal information site written by Rhode Island attorney David Slepkow. He is a partner at Slepkow Slepkow & Associates, established in 1932.
You will find plain guides to auto defects, recalled medical devices and dangerous drugs, from Takata airbags to Exactech implants. Slepkow is licensed in Rhode Island, Massachusetts and before the U.S. Supreme Court.