Best Lawyers in New York, United States for Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Plaintiffs

I am licensed to practice law in New York, New Jersey, Colorado, and the District of Columbia, and am also admitted before the Supreme Court of the United States. My credentials include an "AV Preeminent 5.0 out of 5" rating from Martindale-Hubbell, and recognition by my peers as one of the Best Lawyers for Personal Injury Litigation. My professional affiliations encompass membership in the American Bar Association, American Association for Justice, National Trial Lawyers Association, New Yor...

Michael Buchman leads Motley Rice’s antitrust team. He has served as lead or co-lead counsel for a variety of plaintiff clients, including a Fortune 500 company, a foreign government, multiple states, a city and individual consumers in complex antitrust cases concerning restraint of trade, price-fixing, monopolization and other anticompetitive conduct. His more than 25 years of antitrust experience includes playing an active role in some of the largest antitrust class actions in the his...

Renowned environmental and consumer class action attorney Robin Greenwald, Esq., is one of our distinguished “of counsel” lawyers — meaning, she possesses knowledge and skills that make her of incalculable special importance to our clients and to us. A former Assistant United States Attorney and Assistant Chief of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Environmental Crimes Section, Ms. Greenwald today heads the Weitz & Luxenberg Environmental Toxic Torts and Consumer Pro...

Rosemarie Riddell Bogdan is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Plaintiffs and Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs. Rosemarie Riddell, who practices law in Albany, New York, has been recognized since 2021. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Rosemarie Riddell is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

Joanne M. Gray is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Defendants, Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Plaintiffs and Product Liability Litigation - Defendants. Joanne M., who practices law in New York, New York, has been recognized since 2016. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Joanne M. is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practic...

Charles M. Ferguson, Esq., joined Weitz & Luxenberg in 1989 as an associate attorney in our Asbestos Litigation group. He has been admitted to practice law in the state of New York since 1988; not long after that, he gained the privilege to represent clients in U.S. District Court (Southern and Eastern Districts of New York). Mr. Ferguson received a juris doctor degree from Brooklyn Law School in 1987. He completed undergraduate studies at Wilkes College, which, in 1983, conferred upon hi...

Attorney Daniel Patrick Blouin is a Partner at Simmons Hanly Conroy in the Asbestos Litigation Department. Under his leadership as a lead trial attorney securing significant trial verdicts in courts nationwide, the firm’s product liability practice was named a 2019 “Practice Group of the Year” by Law360.Based in the firm’s New York office, Daniel has secured hundreds of millions of dollars on behalf of clients diagnosed with products-related cancers, extreme injury and...

With over 25 years of experience, Paulina do Amaral is a partner in Lieff Cabraser’s New York office and a senior member of the firm’s Mass Tort and Injury Practice Team. Paulina represents individuals, groups and classes in complex, multi-party litigation in state and federal courts and in multidistrict litigation throughout the U.S. Paulina’s current work includes representation of government entities in one of the largest pieces of civil litigation in history, In re: Nati...

James P. Kreindler is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Plaintiffs and Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs. James P., who practices law in New York, New York, has been recognized since 2007. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which James P. is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

As a lead attorney on Motley Rice’s whistleblower litigation team, Rebecca Katz represents and protects individual whistleblowers who expose corporate misconduct. Rebecca's clients come from all levels of job responsibility in a wide range of industries and she helps them to investigate and report fraud to governmental enforcement agencies including the SEC, DOJ, IRS and CTFC. She has represented senior executives, mid-level managers and staff of multinational banking and financial serv...

Ms. Relkin, whose practice focuses on medical device and pharmaceutical product liability , as well as toxic tort matters, has represented thousands of plaintiffs injured by defective medical products with a recent focus on the generation of failed metal-on-metal and modular hip implants. She serves in leadership capacities appointed by courts as the Co-Lead Counsel of the In Re: DePuy ASR Multi-District Litigation (MDL) and the Lead and Liaison Counsel for the New Jersey In Re: Stryker Rejuv...

Jonathan Damashek is an experienced personal injury attorney in New York City . To Jonathan S. Damashek, the best part of his job is standing up for people who deserve their day in court. “I like fighting for the little guy against the large corporate defendants and insurance carriers to help them recover what they lost in their lives,” he says. In this regard, Mr. Damashek seeks to recover monetary compensation for his clients that covers their past and future pain and suffering,...