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U.S. News: RPWB is a Best Law Firm for National Mass Torts & Class Actions

RPWB is a top plaintiff law firm for our work on national mass torts and class actions, according to the 2022 Best Law Firm rankings by U.S. News & World Report.

In addition to the national ranking for mass torts/class actions, RPWB was listed as a Best Law Firm for personal injury, product liability, medical malpractice and health care litigation in our home state of South Carolina.

For a complete roundup of our listings, please click here.

The announcement by U.S. News followed RPWB’s inclusion on the 2022 Best Lawyers in America list, in which 16 RPWB attorneys were recognized for their work. RPWB was the top-listed plaintiff law firm in South Carolina for product liability cases and mass tort litigation.

RPWB attorneys regularly hold leadership positions in class actions and other mass torts across the nation. We have leadership roles in both the 3M Combat Arms Earplug MDL and the Aqueous Film-Forming Foams Product Liability MDL. In recent years, RPWB played a leading role in litigation associated with the failed VC Summer Nuclear Power Plant project. The resulting settlements provided billions in relief for South Carolina’s ratepayers and resolved some of the most complex litigation in the state’s history.

RPWB lawyers have been at the forefront of asbestos litigation since the 1970s. We have helped mesothelioma victims in nearly every US state and territory collect money from asbestos manufacturers who put profits over the health of American workers.

The firm’s usefulness even extends across international borders. RPWB attorneys are foreign legal consultants for six Canadian provinces seeking to recoup public money spent on smoking-related illnesses.

While RPWB is proud to help large groups of people who have been wronged, the firm remains deeply rooted in our work to help individuals in their times of intense need.

Rogers, Patrick, Westbrook & Brickman represents clients in many types of cases, including wrongful death and personal injury, truck accidents, railroad accidents, construction defects, medical malpractice, mesothelioma and other occupational lung disease, whistleblower & qui tam, nursing home abuse, and pharmaceutical drug and medical device injury.

RPWB is ranked nationally for its work on class actions and mass torts

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    RPWB Attorneys Investigating Paraquat, a Herbicide Linked to Parkinson’s Disease

    CHARLESTON, S.C. – RPWB attorneys are investigating the cases of farmers, agricultural workers, crop dusters and groundskeepers who developed Parkinson’s disease after using Paraquat weed killer.

    Several herbicides contain Paraquat, including: Gramoxone, Ortho-Paraquat, Para-SHOT, Parazone, Quick-Quat, Firestorm and Helmqua.

    The herbicides have been used in the United States since 1964, and have come under increased scrutiny in recent years as science linked the inhalation of Paraquat to Parkinson’s disease. A December 2020 study, published in the journal Toxicological Sciences, confirmed that inhaling Paraquat gives it a direct pathway to the brain. Once in the brain, studies have shown Paraquat damages or impairs dopamine receptors.

    Parkinson’s disease occurs when nerve cells in an area of the brain that controls movement become impaired or die. Normally, these neurons produce dopamine. When the neurons die or become impaired, they produce less dopamine, which causes the movement problems of Parkinson’s.

    Currently, about 25 lawsuits alleging Paraquat as the cause of a plaintiff’s Parkinson’s disease have been filed throughout the country. An application to consolidate Paraquat Parkinson’s Disease lawsuits in a single federal court is pending before the United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation.

    The use of Paraquat in the United States continues to this day even though other countries such as China and the European Union have already banned their use. The herbicide is typically used to control weeds in agricultural settings, but is also used on golf courses and in grounds maintenance at large facilities such as industrial sites, schools and parks.

    In October 2020, the EPA proposed new guidelines that would limit the use of Paraquat weed killers, including a prohibition of aerial application (except for cotton desiccation), requiring enclosed cabs and respirators, and creating a longer re-entry waiting period.

    If you or a loved one was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease after repeated exposure to Paraquat weed killers, please contact us for a free, no obligation case review. RPWB’s toxic exposure team has a wealth of experience representing workers exposed to asbestos and toxic weed killers like Roundup. Attorneys at RPWB have been helping people harmed by dangerous products for more than 40 years.

    RPWB serves in the national leadership of litigation against 3M for producing a toxic fire-fighting foam that is contaminating water systems throughout the United States. We have experience helping farmers as well. We recently helped corn farmers get compensation for financial losses they incurred when corn prices plummeted following China’s rejection of Syngenta GMO corn.

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        RPWB is a US News 2021 Best Law Firm

        CHARLESTON, S.C. – U.S. News & World Report has named Rogers, Patrick, Westbrook & Brickman as a 2021 Best Law Firm for its work in personal injury, product liability, mass torts, medical malpractice, securities litigation, healthcare law and railroad law.

        The announcement by U.S. News followed RPWB’s inclusion on the 2021 Best Lawyers in America list, in which 15 RPWB attorneys were recognized for their work. RPWB was the top-listed plaintiff law firm in South Carolina for personal injury, product liability cases and mass tort litigation.

        Click here for a complete roundup of listed attorneys and the firm’s rankings.

        RPWB attorneys regularly hold leadership positions in class actions and other mass torts across the nation. We are currently serving leadership roles in both the 3M Combat Arms Earplugs MDL and the Aqueous Film-Forming Foams Product Liability MDL. The firm played a pivotal role in litigation associated with the failed VC Summer Nuclear Power Plant project. The resulting settlements provided billions in relief for South Carolina’s ratepayers and resolved some of the most complicated litigation in the state’s history.

        Since 1976, RPWB attorneys have represented people diagnosed with mesothelioma in nearly every U.S. state and territory. We were among the first attorneys in the nation to win a mesothelioma lawsuit against asbestos manufacturers.

        The firm’s usefulness even extends across international borders. RPWB attorneys serve as foreign legal consultants for six Canadian provinces seeking to recoup public money spent on smoking-related illnesses, and recently resolved litigation associated with an Egyptian dive boat fire that claimed the life of an American tourist.

        While RPWB takes heart in providing widespread relief to people who have been wronged, the firm remains deeply rooted in our work to help individuals at the time they need it the most.

        RPWB represents clients in many types of cases, including wrongful death and personal injury, truck accidents, railroad accidents, construction defects, medical malpractice, occupational lung disease, whistleblower & qui tam, nursing home abuse, and pharmaceutical drug and medical device injury.

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          RPWB is a 2020 U.S. News & World Report Best Law Firm

          CHARLESTON, S.C. – U.S. News & World Report has named Richardson, Patrick, Westbrook & Brickman as a 2020 Best Law Firm for the firm’s work in personal injury, mass torts and class actions, product liability, medical malpractice, securities litigation, healthcare law and railroad law.

          U.S. News’ announcement came on the heels of the 2020 Best Lawyers in America list, in which 16 RPWB attorneys were recognized for work in their respective practice and geographic areas. This included a Personal Injury Lawyer of the Year designation for Dave Butler, an asbestos lawyer who works across the country helping people with mesothelioma lawsuits from his office in Aiken, South Carolina.

          RPWB was the top-listed plaintiff law firm in South Carolina for work on product liability cases, class action lawsuits and mass torts. In 2019, the firm had the most lawyers on the list in the entire country for mass torts and class actions.

          RPWB was founded in 2002, when four of the six shareholders of the very successful law firm Ness, Motley, Loadholt, Richardson & Poole formed a new firm to focus on complex litigation throughout the United States.

          RPWB attorneys regularly hold leadership positions on class actions and other mass torts across the nation. In 2019, RPWB lawyers were named to the leadership of national lawsuits, including the 3M Combat Arms Earplug MDL and the Aqueous Film-Forming Foams Product Liability MDL.

          The firm remains deeply rooted in work to help mesothelioma victims. Terry Richardson, a founding member of RPWB, was one of the first attorneys in the nation to win a mesothelioma lawsuit against asbestos manufacturers. Since then, RPWB has successfully represented mesothelioma victims throughout the United States. Several attorneys at the firm played pivotal roles in the fight against tobacco companies in the 1990s that led to the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement. RPWB is currently helping six Canadian provinces in their fight to recoup money spent on treating smoking-related illnesses.

          In addition to national litigation, RPWB also works on individual lawsuits in a variety of practice areas, including: wrongful death, catastrophic personal injury, truck accidents, railroad accidents, construction defects, medical malpractice, mesothelioma and other occupational lung disease, whistleblower & qui tam, nursing home abuse, pharmaceutical drugs and medical device cases.

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            16 RPWB Lawyers Selected For Best Lawyers List

            CHARLESTON – RPWB was once again the top-listed plaintiff law firm in South Carolina for product liability cases as well as mass tort and class action lawsuits in the 2020 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®, which was released in August 2019.

            In total, 16 RPWB attorneys were designated as 2020 Best Lawyers, including David Butler, who was chosen as the personal injury lawyer of the year in the Augusta, Ga. metropolitan area. Butler, who works out of Aiken, S.C., has devoted much of his career representing asbestos victims who have developed mesothelioma, but he also works on other personal injury and product liability cases.

            Here are the RPWB attorneys named to the 2020 Best Lawyers list:

            Michael J. Brickman
            Litigation – Securities
            Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs

            Elizabeth M. Burke
            Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs
            Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs
            Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs

            David Butler
            Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs
            Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs

            Blair Hahn
            Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs
            Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs

            Gregory A. Lofstead
            Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs
            Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs

            Christiaan Marcum
            Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs
            Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs

            Kim Keevers Palmer
            Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs

            Terry E. Richardson, Jr.
            Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships)
            Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs
            Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs
            Railroad Law

            Thomas D. Rogers
            Medical Malpractice Law – Plaintiffs
            Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs

            Hoyt Rowell III
            Health Care Law
            Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs

            Brady Thomas
            Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs
            Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs
            Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs

            Christopher Tuck
            Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs

            Charles W. Patrick, Jr.
            Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs
            Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs

            Edward J. Westbrook
            Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs

            Kenneth J. Wilson
            Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs

            Bobby Wood
            Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs

            Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Best Lawyers lists are compiled based on an exhaustive peer-review evaluation. Almost 94,000 industry leading lawyers are eligible to vote (from around the world), and we have received over 11 million evaluations on the legal abilities of other lawyers based on their specific practice areas around the world. For the 2020 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America, 8.3 million votes were analyzed, which resulted in more than 62,000 leading lawyers being included in the new edition. Lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed; therefore inclusion in Best Lawyers is considered a singular honor. Corporate Counsel magazine has called Best Lawyers “the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice.”

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              RPWB is a 2019 U.S. News Best Law Firm

              CHARLESTON, S.C. – Richardson, Patrick, Westbrook & Brickman was named a 2019 Best Law Firm by U.S. News & World Report, recognizing the plaintiff firm for its work on mass torts and class actions, product liability, securities, healthcare law, medical malpractice and personal injury lawsuits.

              With 16 lawyers listed on the underlying Best Lawyers in America list, RPWB was the top-listed plaintiff law firm in the country for its work on mass torts and class actions. RPWB was the top-listed plaintiff law firm in South Carolina for mass torts, personal injury and product liability.

              Four RPWB attorneys were new to the list: Brady Thomas, Chris Tuck, Bobby Wood and Ken Wilson. RPWB founding member Ed Westbrook was named Lawyer of the Year for class actions and mass torts in the Charleston-area.

              Here are the RPWB attorneys named to the 2019 Best Lawyers list:

              Michael Brickman
              Litigation – Securities
              Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions – Plaintiffs

              Elizabeth Middleton Burke
              Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions – Plaintiffs
              Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs
              Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs

              David Butler
              Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs
              Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs

              Blair Hahn
              Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions – Plaintiffs
              Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs

              Greg Lofstead
              Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions – Plaintiffs
              Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs

              Christiaan Marcum
              Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions – Plaintiffs
              Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs

              Kim Keevers Palmer
              Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions – Plaintiffs

              Charles Patrick
              Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions – Plaintiffs
              Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs

              Terry Richardson
              Business Litigation
              Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions – Plaintiffs
              Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs
              Railroad Law

              Tom Rogers
              Medical Malpractice Law – Plaintiffs
              Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs

              Hoyt Rowell
              Health Care Law
              Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions – Plaintiffs

              Brady Thomas
              Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions – Plaintiffs
              Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs

              Chris Tuck
              Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions – Plaintiffs

              Ed Westbrook
              Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions – Plaintiffs

              Ken Wilson
              Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs

              Bobby Wood
              Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions – Plaintiffs

              About RPWB

              RPWB was formed in 2002 as a collective of talented legal minds who focus on complex litigation throughout the United States. The firm is well-respected for its work on mass torts and product liability cases, including mesothelioma lawsuits and pharmaceutical litigation. RPWB attorneys regularly hold leadership positions on class actions and other mass torts across the nation.

              RPWB founding member Terry Richardson was among the first attorneys in the nation to successfully hold asbestos manufacturers liable for causing mesothelioma cancer. Several attorneys at the firm played pivotal roles in the fight against tobacco companies in the 1990s that led to the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement. Some of those same attorneys are currently assisting six Canadian provinces seeking to recoup public healthcare spending on smoking-related illnesses.

              In addition to national litigation, RPWB also represents individual people in many practice areas, including: catastrophic personal injury, truck accidents, railroad accidents, construction defects, medical malpractice, mesothelioma and other occupational lung disease, whistleblower & qui tam, nursing home abuse, pharmaceutical drugs and medical device cases.

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