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17 RPWB Attorneys Selected for Best Lawyers in America List

MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C – Seventeen RPWB attorneys were selected for the 2024 edition of The Best Lawyers in America® list for numerous practice areas including personal injury, product liability, mass tort, class action, qui tam and medical malpractice litigation.

This marks the seventh consecutive year in which RPWB is the top-listed plaintiff law firm in South Carolina for class action & mass tort litigation.

RPWB member Kim Keevers Palmer was selected as Lawyer of the Year in Charleston for mass tort and class action litigation. Christiaan Marcum was Lawyer of the Year in Charleston for his product liability work.

Additionally, three RPWB attorneys were selected for the “Ones to Watch” category that is reserved for younger, up-and-coming lawyers.

Here is the full list of RPWB attorneys on the 2024 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®:

Jena L. Borden

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

James C. Bradley

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

Michael J. Brickman

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

Nina Fields Britt

  • Antitrust Law
  • 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

Kim 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
  • Qui Tam Law

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

Ones to Watch – Designation for younger attorneys

D. Charles Dukes

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

Theodore Hargrove II

  • Commercial Litigation

Matthew A. Nickles

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

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    Trial Lawyer Deon Tedder Joins RPWB

    Trial attorney Deon Tedder has joined Rogers, Patrick, Westbrook & Brickman, LLC, where he will focus on personal injury, mass torts and criminal defense work out of the firm’s Mount Pleasant and Columbia offices.

    Tedder joins RPWB after working at David Aylor Law Offices for the past five years, where he helped many clients in the Charleston area with personal injury and criminal defense matters. He is honored as a 2022-2023 Rising Star in personal injury litigation by Super Lawyers and as a Top 40 under 40 personal injury attorney by the National Black Lawyers Association.

    “We are thrilled to have Deon join us,” said Nina Fields Britt, managing attorney of RPWB. “He has an outstanding reputation as a trial lawyer and as a person who is genuinely community service-oriented. He brings a lot to the table for his clients and also for our law firm.”

    A resident of North Charleston, Tedder has spent much of his life devoted to public service. He currently serves District 109 in the S.C. House of Representatives and is running for an open seat in the S.C. Senate (District 42). But his interest in being a voice and public servant for the underserved goes back much further.

    While in college, he worked in the office of the late Senator Edward (Ted) Kennedy, where he assisted on the Health, Education, Labor & Pension (HELP) Committee. As a law student at the University of South Carolina School of Law, he advocated for the least fortunate among us by serving as a Guardian Ad Litem for Richland County’s Court Appointed Special Advocates Program (CASA).

    Tedder also represented indigent clients in courtroom proceedings in Magistrate Court through the University of South Carolina’s Criminal Law Practice Clinic. He served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable L. Casey Manning in Columbia.

    Outside of practicing law, he can be found volunteering at community events, mentoring young students, and advocating for all South Carolinians to have a better quality of life.

    Tedder is a proud graduate of South Carolina State University Honors College and the University of South Carolina School of Law. He is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.

    In addition to being licensed to practice law in South Carolina, Tedder also is licensed in North Carolina.

    Tedder can be reached at dtedder@rpwb.com or 843-727-6518.

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      Congress Passes Camp Lejeune Water Contamination Law

      Over a 34-year period, many thousands of Marines and their families were exposed to dangerous water contamination at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune. After a long wait, justice may finally be in sight.

      Congress approved bi-partisan legislation on Tuesday night that will clear the way for veterans and their families to seek compensation in federal court for health problems caused by decades of water contamination at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina.

      The Honoring our PACT Act of 2022 is expected to be signed into law by President Biden, and will mark a major expansion of veterans’ healthcare. In addition to the well-publicized help for burn pit victims, it includes provisions that allow veterans and their families to seek financial compensation for cancer or other serious illnesses caused by consuming contaminated water at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune between 1953 and 1987.

      If you served, lived, or worked at Camp Lejeune for at least 30 days during that time period and subsequently developed cancer, Parkinson’s Disease, or a number of other serious conditions, you may be eligible for financial relief. The new law will enable veterans and their families to file suit in federal court in the Eastern District of North Carolina.

      RPWB attorneys are proud to represent current and former members of our nation’s armed forces, including those harmed by dangerous water contamination at Camp Lejeune. Our law firm is investigating potential cases on behalf of men and women who served, lived, or worked at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, between August 1, 1953, and December 31, 1987, for at least 30 days and subsequently developed cancer or other serious medical issues.

      Water testing at Camp Lejeune in the 1980s revealed the presence of several toxic substances in the water. The main pollutants in Camp Lejeune’s water from 1957 to 1987 were Tetrachloroethylene (PCE) and Trichloroethylene (TCE). Exposure to these substances can cause such cancers as kidney cancer, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, multiple myeloma, leukemia, liver cancer and bladder cancer.  Exposure can also lead to Parkinson’s disease, systemic sclerosis/scleroderma and major cardiac birth defects. Many thousands of people bathed in and consumed contaminated water while assigned to Camp Lejeune.

      Click here for more information about Camp Lejeune Water Contamination Lawsuits.

      If you or a loved one spent time at Camp Lejeune and developed any of the above health conditions, you may have a claim. Please contact us without delay for a free, no-obligation case review.

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        RPWB Helps Our Military Heroes

        RPWB’s attorneys proudly represent our current and former military heroes. In addition to our efforts to help people who suffered from health effects caused by contaminated drinking water on Camp Lejeune, our attorneys also represent many service personnel and veterans who developed hearing loss as a result of faulty 3M earplugs. In fact, RPWB serves in leadership capacity of the national lawsuit.

        RPWB is a 2022 U.S. News Best Law Firm and is the top-listed product liability law firm in South Carolina according to Best Lawyers. We have a reputation for successfully handling complex litigation that benefits people harmed through no fault of their own.

        If you or a loved one spent time at Camp Lejeune and developed kidney cancer, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, multiple myeloma, leukemia, liver cancer, bladder cancer, systemic sclerosis/scleroderma, Parkinson’s disease, kidney disease or major cardiac birth defects, please contact us without delay for a free, no-obligation case review. You may call us 24/7 at 1-866-639-0366 or use the form on this page.

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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 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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                    When Personal Vaporizers Explode: An Entire Industry Designed Around the Wrong Battery

                    By Chris Moore

                    Since the mid-2000s, we have become more reliant on lithium-ion batteries and the devices they power.  The batteries are extremely useful and serve an important function. Just a decade ago, it would have been inconceivable for a laptop computer or a smartphone to be used for an entire day on just one charge.

                    This revolutionary technology is changing the way we live. But with such an intense energy source, the batteries also carry great risk if not handled and used properly. When lithium-ion batteries fail, the results can be catastrophic. The batteries can catch fire and explode, sometimes causing serious personal injury (think: second or third-degree burns) and property damage.

                    The seriousness of that risk has gained recent attention in the world of e-cigarettes and personal vaporizers, also known as ‘mods’ or ‘vapes.’ Many of these devices require the use of a particular kind of lithium-ion battery called an 18650 (referring to its size, 18mm by 65mm), a lithium-ion battery that is slightly bigger than the AA battery.

                    18650 lithium-ion batteries are manufactured by major corporations like Samsung, LG, Sony and Panasonic as well as a host of companies in China that produce batteries of varying degrees of quality. These batteries, and even similar, counterfeit batteries, are being sold throughout the world, including online.

                    18650 lithium-ion batteries

                     

                    The problem is that 18650 lithium-ion batteries are designed to be used by manufacturers putting together battery packs for devices like power drills, cordless vacuum cleaners, or landscaping equipment. In those power packs, the individual 18650 batteries are packaged together with internal circuit protection and encased in thick rubber or plastic. Often both the charger and the application incorporate safety features to keep the battery within a safe operating or charging level. In order to prevent catastrophic failure, the charger keeps the batteries from being overcharged, and the device itself shuts off if the batteries are overheating due to a short circuit.

                    Because most e-cigarettes and vaporizers that use 18650 batteries do not have such safety features, people who use them are putting themselves at risk every time they take a puff. 18650 lithium-ion batteries are generally not meant to be sold direct to consumers for use in mods, which often lack safety mechanisms to prevent the battery from exploding.  Of course, most people would never realize this when they find the batteries readily available in vape stores and online. And many in the retail business of the vape industry are ignorant of this danger as well.

                    Absent safety circuitry in both the charger and the device, there is nothing to stop an individual 18650 battery from exploding. Sometimes the battery explodes while in use, but often they explode when being carried around in a person’s pocket. A thin plastic wrap is all that prevents the metal casing of an 18650 lithium-ion battery from being directly exposed to its outside environment. People who vape often will carry a spare, fully-charged battery with them to use during a long workday. Through natural wear and tear, the plastic wrap easily rips. It is only a matter of time before both terminals of the battery come into contact with something metal like a set of keys. When both terminals come into contact with the metal object, the battery rapidly heats up and explodes. Unfortunately, we regularly see people injured from this exact scenario.

                    I have represented people throughout the country who have been seriously injured by the batteries used in many mods and vapes. The law allows us to seek compensation from all parts of the 18650 lithium-ion battery supply chain, including manufacturers, distributors and retailers.

                    Of course, I hope that you will never need to use my services. If you do choose to vape, please make sure you use a device that does not use an 18650 lithium-ion battery.  Pick a device that has an internal battery or that has safety features that will prevent the battery from shorting.

                    Chris Moore is a RPWB attorney who handles many product liability and personal injury cases throughout the country. He is a 2019 Super Lawyers Rising Star. In addition to working on personal vaporizer explosion cases, he has successfully litigated personal injury and property damage cases involving devices like cell phones, laptops and the battery packs used for remote-controlled cars, scooters and hover boards. To learn more about our lithium-ion battery explosion practice area, please click here. If you would like us to take a look at your case, please fill out the form on this page or give us a call.

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                      RPWB Named To Leadership of 3M Combat Arms Ear Plug MDL

                      RPWB member attorney Elizabeth Middleton Burke was named to the leadership of the 3M Combat Arms Ear Plug multidistrict litigation. Federal lawsuits filed against 3M for producing faulty military ear plugs have been consolidated in the Northern District of Florida.

                      Burke was named as co-chair of the Plaintiff Steering Committee, which builds the national product liability case and manages the litigation on behalf of the thousands of current and former military personnel who have filed federal lawsuits. She and other RPWB attorneys represent hundreds of veterans and active duty service members throughout the United States.

                      The dual-ended 3M Combat Arms Ear Plugs (version 2) were standard issued equipment for service members between 2003 and 2015. This included those who were deployed to combat zones, such as Iraq and Afghanistan.

                      3M’s Combat Arms ear plugs were supposed to provide two levels of ear protection: one side to block all noise and the other to protect the eardrums from gunfire and explosions while still allowing military personnel to communicate freely.

                      However, design flaws and insufficient testing resulted in the failure of the dual-ended Combat Arms Ear Plugs (version 2) to protect service members’ ears. This has resulted in high incidences of tinnitus (ringing or buzzing of the ears) as well as partial or full hearing loss.

                      A whistleblower came forward to the federal government to indicate that the design flaw had been known as early as 2000. The manufacturer had moved forward with selling the ear plugs to the military despite knowing they were flawed. In 2018, 3M settled with the federal government.

                      Now, individual service members are seeking justice and compensation from 3M for their hearing loss and tinnitus. Current or former military personnel who suffer from hearing problems should seek immediate advice from an experienced attorney as statutes of limitation dictate the amount of time they have to file a lawsuit against the manufacturer of the Combat Arms Ear Plugs.

                      To learn more about our work to help service members who continue to suffer from hearing problems as a result of these faulty ear plugs, please click here or give us a call at 1-888-855-9481. You may start a free, no obligation case review by filling out the form below.

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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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