Attorneys at The Lanier Law Firm
Mark Lanier is the founder of The Lanier Law Firm, where he serves as the firm's lead litigation counsel. Mr. Lanier is widely recognized as one of the top trial lawyers in the United States.
Kevin Parker is the appellate law specialist at The Lanier Law Firm. His pre-trial work ensures that client cases will stand the test of an appeal. Mr. Parker is an accomplished lawyer, having personally handled more than 20 cases at the appeals court level.
Dr. Robert E. Leone is an attorney and the in-house trial psychologist at The Lanier Law Firm. His pre-trial preparations allow the firm's clients an inside look at how their case will be received by a jury.
Patrick Haines has practiced mass tort litigation since graduating from the University of Texas Law School in 1992. For the last seven years, Patrick has focused his practice on litigation against the manufacturers of asbestos.
Richard D. Meadow has been a practicing trial attorney for more than 24 years. He is the Managing Attorney of the New York office of The Lanier law Firm and serves on the Plaintiffs' Steering Committee of several national litigations.
Dana Taschner is the Managing Attorney for The Lanier Law Firm in Los
Angeles. His work in significant national and international litigation
has been the subject of media coverage from such news outlets as CNN,
60 Minutes, MSNBC, CNBC, The New York Times, USA Today, Los Angeles
Times and The Wall Street Journal.
ChristopherBanys leads The Lanier Law Firm's Palo Alto, California office and heads the firm's nationwide intellectual-propertypractice. Mr. Banyshas successfully represented both individuals and Fortune 500 corporations in patent and other IP disputes around the country.
Eugene R. Egdorf represents the firm's clients in both personal injury and commercial litigation matters.
Edward W. Fudge is Of Counsel to The Lanier Law Firm. He has many years of trial experience in personal injury and civil litigation cases.
Dara Hegar, an associate at The Lanier Law Firm, is a Houston native who joined the firm in 1999. While Dara works in all of the firm's practice areas, her specialty is trial coordination of complex litigation.
C. Taylor Campbell is an Associate with the firm. Taylor practices in the areas of personal injury-plaintiffs, pharmaceutical products, products liability, toxic torts, premises liability, wrongful death, and asbestos litigation.
Angela C. Bullock is an Associate with the firm. Ms. Bullock came to The Lanier Law Firm in 2000 and practices in the areas of toxic torts, asbestos-caused injuries, personal injury, and pharmaceutical products.
Bringing a wealth of litigation and management experience to the firm, Charles Herd concentrates on Jones Act and seaman's cases, maritime-related claims, asbestos/products liability cases, and commercial matters.
Evan M. Janush represents clients in pharmaceutical and product liability mass tort actions, significant individual personal injury actions and complex commercial litigation matters.
R. Craig Bullock is an associate at The Lanier Law Firm. He received his B.S. in Economics at Texas A&M University in 1993. He came to The Lanier Law Firm in 2002, and works in the area of asbestos injuries litigation.
Judson (Jud) Waltman handles cases involving commercial truck collisions, product liability, medical malpractice as well as workplace injuries and oil field accidents.
Maura Kolb joined the The Lanier Law Firm in 2003 after working closely with the firm for several years in complex commercial and personal injury litigation matters.
Lawrence (Larry) Wilson rejoined the firm in 2003, and practices in the areas of FELA/railroad claims, truck accidents, products liability, the Jones Act, and medical malpractice.
W. Casey Harris is an associate with the firm. He has devoted his entire practice to litigation, including personal injury-plaintiffs, products liability, toxic torts, premises liability, wrongful death, asbestos and silica litigation.
Kenneth Soh has been an associate with The Lanier Law Firm since September 2004. His principal areas of practice are asbestos, complex commercial and personal injury litigation.
David Kuttles is an associate at The Lanier Law Firm, practicing in the areas of pharmaceutical and toxic tort litigation, general products liability litigation and commercial matters.
Phillip N. Sanov is an associate with The Lanier Law Firm, working in all areas of civil litigation with a focus on commercial litigation cases involving first-party insurance claims, intellectual property, and other commercial disputes.
David Dixon joined The Lanier Law Firm in 2005. He handles asbestos, premises liability, and personal injury litigation.
Michael Holley is an associate at The Lanier Law Firm. Before joining the firm in June 2006, Mr. Holley served in the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's Corps.
J.D. McMullen, an associate with the firm, practices in commercial and toxic tort litigation. He is also a Certified Impartial Third Party and has mediated cases for the Better Business Bureau and Houston's family courts.
Sam T. Richard, an associate with The Lanier Law Firm, works with clients from all of the firm's practice groups. Mr. Richard personally meets with our clients to investigate their claims and to serve as their advocate throughout the course of litigation.
Catherine Heacox represents individuals who have been injured by dangerous drugs and products, medical negligence, and toxic exposure. For more than a decade, Ms. Heacox has handled complex civil litigation including pharmaceutical and product liability mass tort actions, personal injury actions and environmental injury matters.
Sara A. Morton is an associate at The Lanier Law Firm in the areas of toxic tort litigation and asbestos related injuries.
Patrick O’Hara is an associate at The Lanier Law Firm, where he
represents clients in a wide variety of civil litigation matters.
Lincoln Goodwin is an associate with The Lanier Law Firm. He represents clients in a variety of civil litigation matters.
Daniel Bedell is an associate in the Palo Alto office of The
Lanier Law Firm. Mr. Bedell's practice focuses on high-stakes
intellectual property disputes.
Kyle Beale, an associate at The Lanier Law Firm, is a native of Kilgore, Texas. An experienced trial lawyer with many years of legal experience, he represents clients in cases involving mass torts and exposure to deadly asbestos.
Bridget B. Truxillo is an associate with The Lanier Law Firm in New York City where she represents plaintiffs who have been hurt by unsafe drugs and products as well as by toxic exposure.
Aaron Plumlee is an associate with The Lanier Law Firm, where he represents plaintiffs affected by exposure to asbestos. He earned his law degree from the University of Tulsa College of Law in 2008.
Benjamin Pyle is an associate with The Lanier Law Firm, practicing in the area of toxic tort litigation. Mr. Pyle earned his law degree from South Texas College of Law, where he also served as managing editor of the International Trade Law Journal.
William H. "Bill" Barfield is an associate with The Lanier Law Firm. He devotes his entire practice to litigation, representing plaintiffs in the areas of personal injury, products liability, toxic torts, premises liability, wrongful death, asbestos and silica litigation. Mr. Barfield has tried numerous jury cases to verdict in courtrooms across the country.
C. Jason Lindamood is an associate with the Lanier Law Firm,
where he practices in the area of toxic torts, asbestos related injuries, and
commercial litigation. Upon graduating law school, Mr. Lindamood spent four years as
a prosecutor in the Wharton County District Attorney’s office.
Lauren H. Ware is an associate with The Lanier Law Firm, where she represents plaintiffs affected by exposure to asbestos. In 2007, Ms. Ware
served as an intern for the Supreme Court of Panama on behalf of the
Frank Evans Center for Conflict Resolution.
M. Clay Fostel is an associate with The Lanier Law Firm. Mr. Fostel’s years of trial experience includes work on a case that
resulted in one of the largest verdicts in the nation in 2004, as
reported by The National Law Journal.
Houston native Ryan Nicole Jacobs is an associate with the Lanier Law Firm, where she represents plaintiffs affected by exposure to asbestos. She earned her B.B.A. degree in
Finance from the University of Texas and graduated summa cum
laude from South Texas College of Law.
Paul R. Cordella is an associate at The Lanier Law Firm, practicing in the areas of pharmaceutical litigation, mass torts, toxic torts and products liability litigation.
Jack L. White is a member of the Issues & Appeals Group of The Lanier Law Firm.
Mr. White joined The Lanier Law Firm after serving as a Law Clerk for
Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr., on the United States Supreme Court.
Kelley Smith is an intake attorney with The Lanier Law Firm. Ms. Smith earned her BBA degree in Business Law from Tulane University
in 2005, where she was a member of the school’s Division I soccer
team. She earned her law degree at South Texas College of Law in 2009.
Dwana Waltman joined The Lanier Law Firm in February of 2009 as an intake attorney for the toxic tort division.
Mrs. Waltman was born in Lufkin, Texas. She graduated from Baylor University, magna cum laude.
Carmen Aviles is an associate with The Lanier Law Firm's intellectual property group in Palo Alto, California. She joined The Lanier Law Firm in 2009 after working two years at a San Francisco law practice in various areas of civil litigation.
M. Michelle Carreras is an associate with expertise in commercial litigation, with an emphasis on bankruptcy-related litigation. Prior to joining the firm, she spent six years at a prominent Texas defense firm, where she focused on bankruptcy and environmental litigation.
James Tario is an associate with The Lanier Law Firm's intellectual
property group in Palo Alto,
California.
He joined The Lanier Law Firm
in 2010 after litigating high stakes intellectual property matters at a
prestigious national law
firm for two years.
Kelly A. Fitzpatrick is an associate at the Lanier Law Firm in
the New York office, practicing primarily in the area of pharmaceutical
litigation.
Taylor Nuttall is an associate with the Lanier Law Firm. He practices in the area of toxic
tort litigation and asbestos
related injuries.
Daniel M. Shafer is an associate in the Palo Alto office of The Lanier
Law Firm, where he is a member of the firm's high-stakes intellectual
property litigation group.
George Niño joined the Lanier Law Firm in 2010 and works in the Bankruptcy Arbitration practice area. He is a trial attorney with experience in bankruptcy, commercial, class action, environmental and personal injury litigation. 
Felicia M. Hubert is an associate with the Lanier Law Firm,
working in all areas of civil litigation, with a primary focus in bad
faith insurance claims, personal
injury and commercial
litigation.
Marc Pinney is an associate with the Lanier Law Firm, where he
practices in the area of toxic
torts and asbestos-related
injuries.
Lindsey Cheek assists and represents those who have suffered toxic tort and asbestos
related injuries. Her education and background combine to allow
for her to understand all sides of a particular case and most
importantly the needs of her clients.
Matthew J. Worrall joined The Lanier Law Firm as an associate, in 2010, to focus in the areas of asbestos related injuries and toxic tort litigation. 
Paul H. Villalobos joined the Lanier Law Firm in 2010 and practices from his office in New Orleans, Louisiana. He has been a key player in mass tort litigation cases for over 16 years. Paul received his Juris Doctorate from Loyola University College of Law in 1993.
