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About Steven Marks
Steven C. Marks earned his B.A. cum laude from the University of Florida and his J.D. cum laude from the University of Miami School of Law, where he served as editor-in-chief of the Law Review. He is a member of the Florida Bar, the Order of the Coif, and the Bar and Gavel Law Society. Steve was appointed to the Legal Advisory Committee for the International Civil Aviation Organization and the Flight Safety Foundation Advisory Board, and has served on the board of the National YoungArts Foundation. He is a member of the American Bar Association's Aviation and Space Law Committee and the Trial Lawyers Honorary Society. Steve has served as lead plaintiffs' counsel and executive committee member in major airline disaster MDLs, including Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 and ValuJet Flight 592, and co-led the NFL Concussion Litigation settlement class as a member of the executive committee.
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Steven Marks and Kristina Infante of Podhurst Orseck secured a combined $844 million in wrongful-death judgments for 43 families of passengers killed when LaMia Flight 2933 crashed near Medellin, Colombia, in November 2016, killing 71 of the 77 people aboard.
Steven Marks and Ricardo Martinez-Cid of Podhurst Orseck served on the NFL Concussion Litigation Plaintiffs' Executive Committee, helping negotiate an uncapped settlement projected to exceed $1 billion for more than 20,000 retired players suffering traumatic brain injuries.
Steven Marks of Podhurst Orseck served as lead liaison counsel for the state-court plaintiffs and on the federal MDL Plaintiffs' Steering Committee, helping recover more than $262 million across insurance settlements for the families of the 110 people killed in the May 1996 crash.
Kristina Infante and the Podhurst Orseck team secured a $127.5 million settlement from the federal government on behalf of 40 survivors and families of victims killed or wounded in the February 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, after demonstrating the FBI received advance warnings it failed to investigate.
A federal jury in Chicago awarded $29 million in August 2026 to Naoise Connolly Ryan, the widow of Micheal Ryan, a 39-year-old Irish engineer with the UN World Food Programme. He died on March 10, 2019, when Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, a Boeing 737 MAX 8, crashed minutes after takeoff. Boeing had accepted responsibility, so the trial addressed damages only.
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