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Top-Listed Firm for Personal Injury, Product Liability and Mass Torts

RPWB is the top-listed plaintiff law firm in South Carolina for personal injury, product liability and mass tort litigation in the 2021 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®.

In all, 14 RPWB attorneys were named Best Lawyers in their respective practice areas. Two other RPWB lawyers were named “Ones to Watch,” a designation for younger, up-and-coming attorneys.

Also in the 2021 edition of Best Lawyers, two RPWB attorneys were honored as lawyers of the year in Charleston, SC.

Elizabeth Middleton Burke honored for her work on product liability litigation. Burke is one of the leaders in the national product liability litigation against 3M for manufacturing faulty earplugs for service members.

Thomas Rogers received the distinction for his work on medical malpractice cases

RPWB’s Best Lawyers

Jena L. Borden

  • Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs

Michael J. Brickman

  • Litigation – Securities
  • Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs

Nina Fields Britt

  • Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs

Elizabeth M. Burke

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

J. David Butler

  • Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs
  • Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs

Jerry Hudson Evans

  • 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

Kimberly Keevers Palmer

  • Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs

Charles W. Patrick, Jr.

  • Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs
  • Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs

Thomas D. Rogers

  • Medical Malpractice Law – Plaintiffs
  • Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs

A. Hoyt Rowell III

  • Health Care Law
  • Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs

T. Christopher Tuck

  • Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs
  • Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs

Edward J. Westbrook  

  • Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs

Kenneth J. Wilson

  • Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs
  • Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs

Robert S. Wood

  • Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs
  • Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs

RPWB’s ‘Ones to Watch’

D. Charles Dukes

  • Antitrust Law
  • Commercial Litigation

Matthew A. Nickles

  • Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs
  • Product Liability Litigation – 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 108,000 industry leading lawyers are eligible to vote (from around the world), and we have received over 13 million evaluations on the legal abilities of other lawyers based on their specific practice areas around the world. For the 2021 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America©, 9.4 million votes were analyzed, which resulted in more than 67,000 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.

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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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