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Navan Ward serves as founder and lead attorney at Beasley Allen's Atlanta office, specializing in defective medical devices litigation and pharmaceutical mass torts. Holding licensure across four states, Navan holds a Martindale Hubbell AV Preeminent Rating and has been recognized in the top 500 attorneys nationally by Lawdragon. Beasley Allen reports that with over 20 years litigating in multiple...

Lori Freshwater shares her experience growing up at Camp Lejeune, drinking, cooking, and bathing in contaminated water. Poised to be the largest environmental contamination in the US, Freshwater shares memories and lasting effects of the government's negligence towards military families exposed at Camp Lejeune.  As an author and investigative health and science journalist, Lori Freshwater serves a...

Dr. Maria-Vittoria "Giugi" Carminati, Esq. sat down with LegalCast's Elisa D'Amico to discuss her life as a "recovering" lawyer (she's moved into the business side of the law). Giugi breaks down her book, The Livable Law Method , where she discusses how project management and prioritization of mental health can help reduce and prevent burnout for attorneys - with a focus on solo practitioners or t...

Jennifer Hoekstra and the AWKO trial team led the charge on the 16th 3M multidistrict litigation bellwether trial in May. 3M Leadership brought more multidistrict litigation. Bellwether trials to verdict in the last 18 months than any prior multidistrict Bellwether trial track in history. Jennifer has been involved in direct outcomes of Bellwether trials and settlements in excess of 11 billion dol...

Richard "Rick" Meadow  is the National Mass Tort Leader as well as the Director of Business Development for The Lanier Law Firm. His responsibilities include overseeing all the firm's pharmaceutical mass tort litigation in addition to promoting, recruiting, and maintaining associated outside relationships at a national level. Rick has represented the rights of individuals who have been injured by...

Diandra "Fu" Debrosse Zimmermann is managing partner of DiCello Levitt's Birmingham office, co-managing partner of the Washington, D.C. office, and co-chair of the firm's Mass Tort division. Fu is also a member of the firm's Public Client, Environmental, Personal Injury, Civil Rights, and Trial practice groups. Widely known for her passionate and relentless client advocacy, she represents individu...

John Uustal and the Kelly Uustal Law Firm are a complex personal injury firm based in Fort Lauderdale FL, who are actively involved in traumatic and catastrophic injury litigation and Mass Torts as local trial counsel for certain MDL leadership firms. Also, KU is one of the premier tobacco litigation firms in the country, securing hundreds of millions of dollars in verdicts against Big Tobacco. Ne...

Today we're joined by Majed Nachawati, founder of the Fears Nachawati firm. Majed is well known as a prominent complex commercial litigator in the mass tort space and a leadership firm in emerging torts. Majed's firm is known for representing both individuals and governmental entities in dockets such as the opioid litigation, PFAS water contamination, and other major mass torts. Today we will be d...

John K. Rabiej served as the Deputy Director of the Bolch Judicial Institute for one year, and as the Director of the Duke Law Center for Judicial Studies for seven years. The Duke Law Center brings together judges, lawyers, researchers, government officials and other parties to advance the study and understanding of the judicial process and generate ideas for how it might be improved. During his...

Stephen P New. of Beckley West Virginia is one of the country's leading opioid litigators, by bringing the fight directly to Opioid Big Pharma's doorstep. Steve and the Opioid Justice Team have been defending and advocating for the rights of the neonatal abstinence syndrome afflicted infants, aka the "NAS Babies." Who are the truly innocent victims of the now decades-old opiate crisis in America....

George Haj is a Pulitzer-Prize winning editor who founded Haj Media in 2017. Haj Media is a strategic communications firm focusing on crisis communications, media relations, and litigation support for law firms and corporate clients. Prior to launching his own consulting firm, George spent three decades working in some of the nation's largest news organizations. He has deep roots in the media indu...

With four decades of experience in legal advertising with a passion for legal marketing, intake, and conversion, Harlan Schillinger has more than earned his title as the Grandfather of Legal Advertising. Harlan was the first in the industry to produce and market TV advertising for the legal community. In 1975, along with his partners, Harlan founded the first syndication TV production firm for hig...

Christos Lagos has been the co-managing partner of Lagos & Priovolos PLLC since 2014 when he and John Priovolos formed the firm. Christos, who has over 23 years of legal experience, heads the firm's civil litigation division. His primary focus is on claims that involve substantial losses arising out of construction negligence, unsafe premises, automobile and trucking accidents, medical malpractice...

Vicki J. Maniatis is a partner at Milberg Coleman Bryson Phillips Grossman who has worked on mass tort cases involving pharmaceuticals and medical devices for seventeen years. She is a frequent invited lecturer and moderator on a wide variety of pharmaceutical and mass tort cases including, Opioids, Trans Vaginal Mesh, Fosamax, Ortho Evra, Risperdal, Propecia, Avandia, Onglyza, as well as several...

Pedram Esfandiary   is an attorney in the Los Angeles office of Baum Hedlund Aristei & Goldman, where he concentrates his practice on toxic tort injuries, pharmaceutical drug liability, class actions, consumer fraud litigation and police misconduct lawsuits. He currently leads the firm's legal team that is filing lawsuits against manufacturers of baby food for knowingly selling baby food with with...

Jason Velez is a partner at the Cochran Firm in its Salt Lake City and St. George offices in Utah. He is also the Founder and CEO of 1Law ( www.1law.com ), a company that leverages artificial intelligence to make lawyers more efficient and lower cost for consumers. By doing so, 1Law helps drive new business to attorneys, which in turn improves the user experience for consumers.   1Law utilizes art...

With four decades of experience in legal advertising with a passion for legal marketing, intake, and conversion, Harlan Schillinger has more than earned his title as the Grandfather of Legal Advertising.   Harlan was the first in the industry to produce and market TV advertising for the legal community. In 1975, along with his partners, Harlan founded the first syndication TV production firm for h...

Trevor Goring is a talented visual artist, author, publisher, lecturer, and consultant who has almost 50 years of fine art production experience. For the past few decades, Trevor has worked with the international trial lawyer community, painting portraits of a plethora of legal leaders, including the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Following post graduate studies at Saint Martin's College of Art...

Jessica Hoerman, founder of SimplyConvert, is a business owner, a lawyer, a CPA, and so much more. In 2009 she built TorHoerman Law – a mass tort and personal injury firm – with her husband. But that wasn't the end for her. In 2019 she built and launched SimplyConvert to control the chaos of legal intakes that overwhelms law firms and diversifies client inventory. Jess's journey to building Simply...

Today we are joined by Mike Stagg of Stag Liuzza in New Orleans. Mike is in the middle of trial preparation for what would be considered a long hard road by any stretch of the litigation imagination of a single case that took 10 years to get to trial. Mike begins a transvaginal mesh trial in Huntington WV federal court in mid-February 2022 that he has been working on for 10 years. The defendant is...

"Tip of the Spear" with Billy Walters As a mass tort lawyer who spent 10+ years in the online advertising and digital marketing industry, joining Legal Conversion Center (LCC) as General Counsel was a natural fit. LCC, a Texas-based call center, works with many of the top law firms in the US. Their focus on conversion rates and client service makes them a leader in their field. Billy talks with Ma...

Carrie Goldberg is a pioneer in the field of sexual privacy and a Brooklyn-based victims' rights attorney who is best known for her work fighting revenge porn and representing victims of sexual abuse and related online harassment. In fact Carrie began her career to become the lawyer she needed after she found herself the victim of a calculated scheme of harassment and threats to release intimate p...

Hunter Shkolnik, a partner with Napoli Shkolnik, is a highly sought-after trial attorney who focuses his practice on the trials of significant personal injury cases, primarily in the area of drug, automobile, aviation-related, and heavy truck product liability litigation. Hunter leads trial teams for myriad mass tort pharmaceutical and medical device litigations and is active in managing national...

Join Hunter Shkolnik, lead counsel in the Opioid Litigation, as we discuss the jury verdict win in The New York state court opioid trial, where the jury ruled against Opioid Big Pharma on the "public nuisance" claims, following a seven month trial. Hunter Shkolnik, Napoli Shkolnik, PLLC