Lee Balefsky

Lee B. Balefsky is senior counsel and former head of the Mass Tort Department in which he was involved in lawsuits dealing with a wide range of products and toxic substances, from pharmaceuticals to defective medical devices, from asbestos to denture creams containing zinc.

Balefsky was a member of the Plaintiffs Steering Committee involved in all transvaginal mesh cases nationwide and he served as liason counsel in the Philadelphia Mass Tort Pelvic Mesh program. He had great success in other mass tort cases, playing a leading role in the $4.85 billion Vioxx settlement as well as large settlements in litigation involving the diet drug Fen-Phen.

A graduate of Temple University in 1974 and Wake Forest University Law School in 1977, Balefsky has been admitted to practice in the U.S. District Eastern and Middle Districts of Pennsylvania as well in the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court.