About Cade Gossett

Cade M. Gossett is an attorney at Ashcraft & Gerel focused on complex mass tort litigation, particularly the Camp Lejeune Toxic Water Litigation, where he advocates for service members and their families exposed to contaminated water at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune. Cade graduated summa cum laude from the University of Alabama in 2021 with a B.A. in Communications and earned his J.D. from Charleston School of Law. During law school he served as President of the Charleston School of Law Ambassador Program, Vice President of the Trial Advocacy Board, and was named Senator of the Year as a 3L Senator in the Student Bar Association. He taught weekly classes and coached mock trial through the Street Law Clinic, and joined Ashcraft & Gerel as a Law Clerk in May 2023.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Ashcraft & Gerel, LLP

These results are credited to Ashcraft & Gerel, LLP. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

After fifteen years of litigation and three failed bankruptcy maneuvers by Johnson and Johnson subsidiaries, Ashcraft and Gerel attorneys R. Bryant McCulley and Michelle Parfitt helped negotiate a global, uncapped settlement of at least $5.5 billion covering approximately 76,000 ovarian-cancer claims.

D.N.J. MDL No. 2738 · 2026Product LiabilityRead the full story →
$417 millionVerdict

An L.A. jury awarded Eva Echeverria $417 million after finding that decades of Johnson & Johnson Baby Powder use caused her ovarian cancer, though the trial judge later vacated the verdict and the Court of Appeal affirmed the vacatur.

Los Angeles County Superior Court (JCCP 4872) · 2017Product LiabilityRead the full story →
$5 millionVerdict

A federal jury in Cleveland awarded $5 million to Paul Decker and his wife after finding that GE Healthcare failed to adequately warn patients about the risk of nephrogenic systemic fibrosis from its Omniscan MRI contrast agent, making Decker the first gadolinium NSF case in the country to reach a jury verdict.

N.D. Ohio (Cleveland), aff'd 6th Cir. 2014 · 2013Product LiabilityRead the full story →
$160,000

A seven-year-old boy lost three fingers on his left hand when an old Navy practice bomb from the Duck, North Carolina bombing range exploded in February 1967. After a bench trial under the Federal Tort Claims Act, the court found the Navy negligent for leaving live bombs accessible on an unfenced range and awarded the boy $160,000, plus $1,700.30 to his father for medical expenses.

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Elizabeth City Division · 1970Premises LiabilityRead the full story →

As chair of the plaintiffs' negotiating committee and Liaison Counsel in the Vioxx multidistrict litigation, Russ Herman directed the negotiations that produced a $4.85 billion settlement with Merck resolving approximately 45,000 to 50,000 personal-injury claims.

U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana (MDL-1657) · 2007Product LiabilityRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

Charleston School of Law
J.D.; B.A. Communications, summa cum laude
The University of Alabama
Undergraduate, 2021

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of South Carolina
Charleston School of Law Ambassador Program - President (during law school)
Trial Advocacy Board - Vice President (during law school)
Student Bar Association - 3L Senator
Street Law Clinic

Awards & recognition

2026 South Carolina Rising Stars - Super Lawyers
Summa cum laude - University of Alabama
Senator of the Year (3L) - Charleston Law Student Bar Association

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