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The Lanier Law Firm Ranks Among the Nation’s Best

Posted by The Lanier Law Firm on November 1, 2019

HOUSTON – The Lanier Law Firm has once again been named one of the best law firms in the nation in the prestigious annual Best Law Firms guide assembled by U.S. News and World Report and The Best Lawyers in America. The firm is ranked in the top tier of law firms…

Houston Attorney Patrice Baumann McKinney Honored by Texas Bar Foundation

Posted by The Lanier Law Firm on November 1, 2019

Ms. Patrice Baumann McKinney with Lanier Law Firm has been elected to membership in the Fellows of the Texas Bar Foundation. Fellows of the Foundation are selected for their outstanding professional achievements and their demonstrated commitment to the improvement of the justice system throughout the state of Texas. Election…

Mark Lanier Named Among Benchmark Litigation’s Top 100 Trial Lawyers

Posted by The Lanier Law Firm on October 24, 2019

HOUSTON – Lanier Law Firm founder Mark Lanier has earned recognition for the fourth consecutive year as one of the “Top 100 Trial Lawyers in America” in the Benchmark Litigation guide to the nation’s finest litigators. Mr. Lanier was selected for his general commercial litigation practice as well as his success in the…

Mark Lanier, Trial Team Help Secure Groundbreaking Settlement with Opioid Distributors, Manufacturers, Retailers

Posted by The Lanier Law Firm on October 21, 2019

CLEVELAND – Mark Lanier, lead trial counsel for two Ohio counties in what would have been the first federal trial related to damages caused by the opioid addiction epidemic, says the settlement reached with five Big Pharma defendants should allow devastated communities to receive aid quickly. “The key consideration was…

NYT: Johnson & Johnson Recalls Asbestos-Tainted Baby Powder

Posted by The Lanier Law Firm on October 18, 2019

By Tiffany Hsu and Roni Caryn Rabin for The New York Times October 18, 2019, 10:38 AM ET Johnson & Johnson is recalling a shipment of baby powder after the Food and Drug Administration discovered evidence of asbestos, the company said on Friday, after months spent denying the presence of the carcinogen in its talc-based products….

Billion-Dollar J&J Verdict Winner Now Leads Charge in Opioids Suit

Posted by The Lanier Law Firm on October 18, 2019

By Jef Feeley for BloombergOctober 18, 2019, 4:00 AM CDT Mark Lanier used a block of cheese and a hay bale as props in a St. Louis courtroom last year to make his case that Johnson & Johnson baby powder causes cancer. It worked. Jurors ordered J&J to pay $4.7 billion in damages. The…