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CHARLESTON, S.C. – Richardson, Patrick, Westbrook & Brickman is South Carolina’s top-listed plaintiff law firm for product liability cases and mass tort/class actions in The Best Lawyers in America^® 2018, an annual publication released on August 15, 2017.

In all, 12 RPWB attorneys were named 2018 Best Lawyers for their respective practice areas, including four additions in the past year.

Hoyt Rowell was named as a ‘Lawyer of the Year’ in Charleston for his work on healthcare law. The firm serves as a foreign legal consultant to six provinces in Canada who are seeking to recoup public health spending on tobacco-related illnesses from cigarette manufacturers.

The four lawyers recognized as Best Lawyers for the first time in the annual publication were Dave Butler, Greg Lofstead, Christiaan Marcum and Thomas Rogers.

Best Lawyers compiles its lists based on peer-review evaluations. More than 83,000 leading attorneys globally are eligible to vote. Since being first published in 1983, more than 13 million votes have been cast to determine the legal abilities of lawyers based on their specific practice areas.

Here are RPWB’s 2018 Best Lawyers listings:

Michael Brickman
Securities Litigation
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
Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs

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

Christiaan Marcum
Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs

Kimberly Keevers Palmer
Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions – Plaintiffs

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

Terry Richardson
Business Organizations
Mass Tort Litigation/Class Action Lawsuits – Plaintiffs
Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs
Railroad Law

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

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

Ed Westbrook
Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions – Plaintiffs

About RPWB

With roots dating back to the 1930s in a small, but politically important town in South Carolina, RPWB was formed in 2002 as a collective of talented legal minds who focus on complex litigation that benefits consumers and ordinary people who are harmed through no fault of their own. The firm frequently holds leadership positions in national litigation against the world’s largest corporations. We are known as some of the first lawyers in the nation to successfully hold asbestos manufacturers liable for causing mesothelioma cancer, and as some of the notable attorneys who lead the fight against tobacco companies in the 1990s that culminated with the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement. The firm enjoys a strong reputation for product liability, personal injury and class action litigation.

RPWB 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, nursing home abuse, pharmaceutical drugs and medical device cases.