The Power 100

Levin Papantonio

Pensacola, FL · Litigation leaders

Veteran trial lawyer with national pharmaceutical and environmental litigation experience and extensive MTMP visibility.

Seeger Weiss

New York / New Jersey · Litigation leaders

Plaintiff lawyer with extensive court-appointed leadership experience across mass torts and class actions involving pharmaceuticals, automobiles, and sports injuries.

The Lanier Law Firm

Houston, TX · Litigation leaders

Prominent plaintiff trial lawyer whose product liability verdicts and trial teaching give him influence beyond his own docket.

Watts Law Firm

Base not verified · Litigation leaders

Trial lawyer with decades of complex mass tort and environmental litigation experience; current MTMP biography emphasizes wildfire litigation and large plaintiff portfolios.

Simmons Hanly Conroy

New York, NY · Litigation leaders

Leads complex plaintiff litigation involving opioids, products, environmental claims, and abuse, with extensive national leadership and trial experience.

Aylstock, Witkin, Kreis & Overholtz

Pensacola, FL · Litigation leaders

Founding AWKO partner with pharmaceutical and device MDL leadership experience, including 3M earplugs and Depo-Provera.

Levin Papantonio

Pensacola, FL · Litigation leaders

Firm president with pharmaceutical, environmental, and national mass tort leadership experience.

Beasley Allen

Montgomery, AL · Litigation leaders

Leads Beasley Allen’s mass tort practice and helped develop the section after joining in 1996.

Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein

San Francisco, CA · Litigation leaders

Longstanding plaintiff leader in class actions and complex proceedings involving consumer harms, products, and environmental disasters.

Beasley Allen

Montgomery, AL · Litigation leaders

Product liability lawyer with talc MDL co-lead experience and work involving Vioxx and pelvic mesh.

Weitz & Luxenberg

New York, NY / Cherry Hill, NJ · Litigation leaders

Experienced drug and medical device lawyer with federal and state leadership roles.

DiCello Levitt

Birmingham, AL · Litigation leaders

Plaintiff lawyer with leadership spanning infant formula, hair relaxer, paraquat, social media harms, public clients, and civil rights.

Douglas & London

New York, NY · Litigation leaders

Co-founded a plaintiff firm focused on complex pharmaceutical and medical device litigation, with multiple national lead and liaison roles.

Motley Rice

Base not verified · Litigation leaders

Represents individuals, communities, and public clients in toxic tort and product cases.

Wagstaff Law Firm

Denver, CO · Litigation leaders

Mass tort trial lawyer associated with the first federal Roundup bellwether; focuses on product liability and national coordinated litigation.

Wisner Baum

Los Angeles, CA · Litigation leaders

Product liability trial lawyer known for Roundup litigation and pharmaceutical cases.

Napoli Shkolnik

New York, NY · Litigation leaders

Trial lawyer with pharmaceutical, environmental, and opioid litigation experience, including major plaintiff proceedings and discovery leadership.

Fibich Leebron Copeland & Briggs

Houston, TX · Litigation leaders

Plaintiff lawyer with Paragard and Suboxone lead roles and hair relaxer steering committee work described in her MTMP biography.

Flint Cooper Cohn Thompson & Miracle

Illinois · Litigation leaders

Leads a mass tort practice involving pharmaceuticals, devices, and abuse claims, with co-lead roles described by MTMP.

Neblett, Beard & Arsenault

Alexandria, LA · Litigation leaders

Experienced plaintiff lawyer and complex litigation educator with Actos and DePuy Pinnacle leadership and trial experience.

Douglas & London

New York, NY · Litigation leaders

Trial lawyer focused on products and environmental toxic torts, including PFAS/C8 trials and scientific case development.

Ashcraft & Gerel

Washington, DC · Litigation leaders

Drug and device plaintiff lawyer with national steering committee experience, talc co-lead work, and medical science expertise.

Burg Simpson

Base not verified · Litigation leaders

Leads drug, device, and class action work with prior experience at Seeger Weiss and as a New York prosecutor.

Levin Papantonio

Pensacola, FL · Litigation leaders

Board-certified civil trial attorney focused on mass torts and product liability, including recent hernia mesh trial work.

Taft

Cincinnati, OH · Litigation leaders

Environmental attorney associated with decades of PFAS litigation and advocacy involving contaminated drinking water.

Seeger Weiss

New York / New Jersey · Litigation leaders

Mass tort and class action lawyer with trial, discovery, and expert development experience.

Motley Rice

Rhode Island · Litigation leaders

Plaintiff lawyer working on mesh, GLP-1, and social media harms, with leadership, trial, and electronic discovery experience.

Holland Law Firm

St. Louis, MO · Litigation leaders

Trial lawyer with product liability, railroad, and complex litigation experience, including talc trials and national leadership.

Social Media Victims Law Center

Pacific Northwest · Litigation leaders

Founded a firm focused on social media harms alongside a broader product liability practice, with asbestos and consumer litigation experience.

Weitz & Luxenberg

New York, NY · Litigation leaders

Joined W&L in 2023 with nearly three decades of litigation experience; current profile emphasizes emerging drug/device and exposure matters.

Aylstock, Witkin, Kreis & Overholtz

Pensacola, FL · Litigation leaders

Complex litigation lawyer with substantial research, briefing, and bellwether support experience.

Bullock Legal Group

Base not verified · Litigation leaders

Plaintiff lawyer focused on children’s rights and technology-related harms, including video game addiction and school district litigation.

Lockridge Grindal Nauen

Minneapolis, MN · Litigation leaders

Drug, device, and consumer litigation lawyer with consolidated case leadership, class trial experience, and electronic discovery work.

Littlepage Booth Leckman

Base not verified · Litigation leaders

Product liability trial lawyer with historical leadership in hormone replacement therapy and Rezulin, plus trial teaching experience.

Walkup Melodia Kelly & Schoenberger

San Francisco, CA · Litigation leaders

Experienced plaintiff trial lawyer associated with wildfire resolution and the first DePuy ASR trial.

Hammers Law Firm; MTMP lists Schneider Hammers

Atlanta, GA · Litigation leaders

Plaintiff lawyer with complex product litigation experience, including IVC filters, following an earlier defense practice.

Levin Papantonio

Pensacola, FL · Litigation leaders

Federal mass tort and class action lawyer with extensive judicial clerkship experience before joining LP.

Levin Papantonio

Pensacola, FL · Litigation leaders

Firm general counsel with litigation and federal court experience, providing a connection into governance and firm operations.

Levin Papantonio

Pensacola, FL · Litigation leaders

Mass tort shareholder with recent work on Washington State opioid litigation against grocery-chain pharmacies.

Belluck Law

New York, NY · Litigation leaders

Asbestos and mesothelioma lawyer who previously represented New York State in tobacco litigation; co-founded the firm with Jordan Fox in 2002.

Bailey & Glasser

Madison County, IL / Missouri · Litigation leaders

Plaintiff trial lawyer with products, abuse, employment, and mass tort experience, including talc claimant representation in J&J bankruptcy proceedings.

Parker Waichman

New York · Litigation leaders

Mass tort lawyer with GLP-1 and Exactech steering committee work and trial experience involving DePuy Pinnacle and talc.

Stokes & Hobbs; MTMP also lists Lanier

Houston, TX · Litigation leaders

Plaintiff trial lawyer with hernia mesh leadership and trial experience; current MTMP materials show two firm affiliations.