Anthony Majestro

Anthony J. Majestro is the Managing Member of Powell & Majestro, PLLC. Mr. Majestro is a summa cum laude graduate of West Virginia University (1986) and a cum laude graduate of Georgetown University Law Center (1989). Mr. Majestro is licensed to practice law in West Virginia and various federal district and appellate courts. Mr. Majestro was selected as a Harry S. Truman Scholar in 1984 and served from 1989-1990 as a law clerk to the Honorable Thomas A. Clark of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in Atlanta, Georgia.

Mr. Majestro concentrates his practice in prosecuting complex litigation, focusing on consumer fraud and defective products, including defective drugs and medical devices. In the course of his practice, Mr. Majestro has served as class counsel, lead counsel, liaison counsel and in leadership roles in a number of state and national class actions, mass torts, and other complex cases. Mr. Majestro has developed an extensive appellate practice and has numerous appellate victories in state and federal appellate courts across the country, including a unanimous decision on the merits from Supreme Court of the United States.

Mr. Majestro regularly serves as appellate counsel and also represents state and local officials and agencies in trial and appellate litigation. Mr. Majestro has been involved in leadership roles in the opioid litigation nationwide serving as Co-Chair of the Law and Briefing Committee of MDL 2804, In re: National Prescription Opiate Litigation, which the Washington Post has called "the largest and most complex case in the history of jurisprudence." Mr. Majestro leads the firm's successful appellate practice with lawyers from around the country retaining him and the firm to either preserve verdicts on appeal or overturn an adverse result in a lower court.