Best Little Rock, Arkansas Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Defendants Lawyers
Chip Chiles is a Fellow of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers and the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers and a Member of the American Law Institute. He litigates business-related disputes at trial and on appeal in Arkansas and in other states. Chip has represented some of the world’s leading companies in the insurance, pharmaceutical, chemical, finance, communications, food and beverage, financial, and retail industries. His business-litigation practice has included defending...
Baxter D. Drennon is a Partner in our office in Little Rock, Arkansas, and he has more than a decade of legal experience. His practice is a testament to a career built on safeguarding clients’ rights across the complex landscape of products liability, commercial transactions, and banking and finance law. Baxter also successfully defends doctors, nurses, and other medical providers as he helps them navigate through difficult medical malpractice cases. Baxter has built a reputation for hi...
Scott Provencher is a trial lawyer with extensive experience representing hospitals, psychiatric and behavioral health facilities, pharmacies and pharmacists, and physician groups and physicians in civil litigation matters. Scott also handles litigation related to commercial disputes, including claims for breach of contract, tortious interference with business expectancies, misappropriation of trade secrets and a host of other disputes between businesses. He also defends products-liability an...
Graham Talley litigates and tries complex, multi-party and class action disputes for clients in the healthcare, insurance, retail and banking industries. In recent years, Graham has served as trial counsel more than a half dozen times, all in cases with millions of dollars at stake. His focus on trials often involves the preparation and cross-examination of scientific witnesses, the presentation of complex argument on legal issues during trial and the preservation of error.
Martin A. Kasten is a partner in the Litigation department of Friday, Eldredge & Clark, and focuses his practice on tort litigation and class actions in federal and state courts. His trial work includes the defense of claims involving business torts, Attorney General actions, Arkansas’ deceptive trade practices act, insurance coverage, products liability, including pharmaceuticals, automobile accidents, premises liability and breach of contracts. Martin also regularly handles appeal...
Jamie Jones Walsworth is a partner in the Litigation Practice Group and a member of the Firm’s Management Committee. She joined the firm after earning the highest score on the Arkansas Bar Exam in 2003. Jamie has extensive experience in complex business and commercial litigation in both state and federal courts, having defended claims involving class actions, ERISA, business torts, trade secrets, commercial practices, breach of contract, product liability, among others. Jamie also has e...
Megan Hargraves is a health care lawyer who provides clients with strategic counsel on health care regulatory, compliance and legislative matters along with public policy and implementation issues. She advises hospitals and other health care clients on issues related to risk management, quality assurance and regulatory and operational compliance. She advises and represents clients on matters related to the Arkansas Peer Review Fairness Act, the Healthcare Quality Improvement Act (HCQIA), Arka...
Ryan Younger handles disputes involving contracts, fraud, deceptive trade practices, trade secrets, insurance, products liability, government regulation, and other matters. He represents clients ranging from individuals to multi-national corporations. He has extensive experience in state and federal courts across the nation and has served as first-chair trial counsel and lead lawyer for appeals. He has defended clients in multiple multidistrict litigation proceedings. Mr. Younger also represe...
Steve Quattlebaum is an experienced litigator representing clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies to privately held businesses and individuals in class actions, multi-district litigation, and other complex civil litigation in jurisdictions across the country. He is widely recognized for his courtroom leadership and strategic litigation skills. Mr. Quattlebaum focuses his practice on complex business litigation, toxic torts, and products liability. He has served as lead trial counsel in mo...
Sarah Greenwood is a partner at RMP LLP and a trial attorney based in Little Rock, Arkansas. Her practice focuses on Insurance Law and Litigation – Insurance, with an emphasis on Medical Malpractice Law – Defendants, Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants, Product Liability Litigation – Defendants, and Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants. She regularly represents insurers and corporate defendants in complex litigation matters and has participated i...
Kimberly D. Young is a senior member of the firm’s Litigation Practice Group. Her practice focuses on complex civil litigation, including defending gas and electrical utilities for over twenty years, handling high-stakes product liability cases, such as those involving pharmaceuticals and medical devices, and navigating multi-district litigation. Kim also represents providers of behavioral healthcare services to adults and adolescents. Kim represents insured individuals and companies in...
Gordon Rather has been engaged in active trial practice for more than 40 years. Year after year, he has been known as one of the state’s most effective trial lawyers. Clients have characterized him as a “great trial lawyer,” who is “in touch with every detail of a case” in addition to being “thorough and extremely good with juries.” His practice centers on litigation, including complex commercial issues, product liability defense, toxic torts, admiral...
John Tull has served as lead counsel in more than 100 jury trials, representing individuals, small businesses, and major corporations across a broad spectrum of complex litigation. Clients rely on his deep courtroom experience and strategic approach to resolve high-stakes legal challenges effectively. Mr. Tull’s trial experience includes matters involving business torts, breach of contract, product liability, toxic torts, environmental litigation, securities fraud, franchise disputes, t...
Ed Lowther has a trial-oriented practice and focuses his attention on class action and multidistrict litigation, commercial litigation, legal and medical malpractice defense and products liability. He has served as lead trial counsel, in both state and federal courts, representing individuals and companies alike. Lowther is the Managing Partner of Wright Lindsey Jennings. He began his professional legal career as an associate with Wright Lindsey Jennings in 1981, and has remained with the fir...
