Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs Product Liability Litigation - Plaintiffs
Dara G. Hegar
Recognized in Best Lawyers since 2017 Awarded Practice Areas
Biography
Dara Hegar is the Managing Attorney of The Lanier Law Firm. She represents clients in each of the firm’s practice areas with a focus on trial coordination in complex litigation matters. While Mrs. Hegar’s proficiency spans across all of the firm’s practice areas, her specialty is providing specific insight that has resulted in many significant verdicts and settlements. She played a key role in the firm’s courtroom victories for years, including the $253 million verdict in the nation’s first Vioxx trial.
Dara earned her law degree at St. Mary’s University School of Law, where she served with distinction as Associate Editor of the Law Journal in 1998. She further served as briefing attorney to the Honorable Richard H. Edelman at the Fourteenth Court of Appeals from 1998 through 1999, before joining the Lanier Law Firm.
Practice Areas:
• General Litigation
• Personal Injury - Products: Plaintiff
• Business Litigation
Overview
- Texas A&M University, B.A., graduated 1995
- Saint Mary's University, J.D.
- Texas, State Bar of Texas
- American Association of Justice - Member
- Houston Bar Association - Member
- State Bar of Texas - Member
- Texas Young Lawyers Association - Member
- United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
- United States District & Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas
- Texas, State Bar of Texas
- American Association of Justice - Member
- Houston Bar Association - Member
- State Bar of Texas - Member
- Texas Young Lawyers Association - Member
- Texas A&M University, B.A., graduated 1995
- Saint Mary's University, J.D.
- United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
- United States District & Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas
Client Testimonials
Awards & Focus
Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® 2026 for work in:
- Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs
- Product Liability Litigation - Plaintiffs
Special Focus:
- COVID-19
Awards:
- Best Lawyers in America, 2017-2026
Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America, 2020-2025
- Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Consumer Lawyers, 2020-2025
- Texas Super Lawyers, Thomson Reuters, 2018-2025
- Texas Rising Stars, Thomson Reuters, 2005, 2007-2009, 2011-2013
- The National Trial Lawyers, Top 100, 2013
News & Media
Case History
Cases
- Representative Cases
- Member of the Plaintiffs Steering Committee in the Opioid Multidistrict litigation in the state of Texas and has actively worked to negotiate and achieve over a billion dollars to the counties and cities in the state to combat the opioid crisis
- Part of the national trial team that won a historic verdict against retail pharmacies operated by Walmart, CVS and Walgreens finding that they failed to follow guidelines that would have curtailed the staggering distribution of highly addictive opioid painkillers
- A record setting $4.69 billion verdict on behalf of 22 women and their families who alleged that decades of daily use of Johnson & Johnson’s asbestos-laden talcum powder products caused their ovarian cancer
- $247 million verdict against DePuy Orthopaedics Inc. and Johnson & Johnson
- $528 million verdict against DePuy Orthopaedics Inc. and Johnson & Johnson
- $1.05 billion verdict against DePuy Orthopaedics Inc. and giant Johnson & Johnson
- $9 billion-dollar Actos verdict against Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. and Eli Lilly & Co
- $253 million in the first Vioxx® verdict in the U.S. (Ernst v. Merck)
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