Lisa Shirley
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About Lisa Shirley
Lisa Shirley is a Partner at Dean Omar Branham Shirley, LLP and heads the firm's motion and appellate practice. She earned her undergraduate degree with honors magna cum laude from Austin College in 1994 and her law degree summa cum laude from Tulane University School of Law in 1999, where she was inducted into the Order of the Coif. Shirley began her career clerking for the Louisiana Supreme Court and subsequently received a fellowship to litigate civil rights cases in Florida. Since 2006, she has represented clients harmed by asbestos, environmental toxins, and pharmaceuticals, specializing in legal briefs and appellate advocacy.
She is admitted in Louisiana, Florida, Texas, and multiple federal appellate and district courts. Shirley volunteers with the Dallas Volunteer Attorney Project and has served on the boards of the ACLU of Texas and Aberg Center for Literacy. She was lead appellate counsel in Bobo v. Tennessee Valley Authority in the Eleventh Circuit, a mesothelioma and asbestos exposure case that produced a multi-million dollar verdict.
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Brennen Atkeson was exposed to asbestos as a child, second-hand, from dust carried into the family home on the work clothes of his stepfather, an oilfield worker. The fibers came from raw asbestos put into drilling-mud products and from drilling-rig products. He developed mesothelioma and died at 38.
William Berry worked at the West Monroe Paper Mill from 1961 to 2010. Foster Wheeler installed the mill's two five-story boilers in the mid-1960s, sheathed in asbestos, and came back every year to strip and reinstall that asbestos in what he described as a dust storm. He wore his work clothes home; his wife Lynda washed them daily for decades. In 2015, at 65, she was diagnosed with peritoneal mesothelioma. An Ouachita Parish jury awarded medical expenses but nothing for her suffering; the judge added $3,000,000 in general damages on JNOV. The judgment against Foster Wheeler, one-half virile share of $4,500,000, was $2,250,000, affirmed in 2019.
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