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About Lee Cirsch
Lee Cirsch is a senior attorney at The Lanier Law Firm. He is an experienced trial lawyer who has handled a wide variety of personal injury , products liability , and business and commercial litigation matters for more than two decades. He primarily focuses on representing the firm’s clients in personal injury and product liability matters. Lee focuses on the needs of the firm’s clients and develops the best strategy to achieve those needs in the most creative, efficient, and economical manner possible.
His vast experience representing both plaintiffs and defendants gives him an uncanny ability to understand and often predict his opponent’s strategy, thereby giving the firm’s clients an edge in litigation. Lee started his legal career handling business litigation matters with the large global law firm, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP. He went on to represent large property and casualty insurers at Barger & Wolen, LLP. Lee then joined The Lanier Law Firm, where he worked under esteemed trial attorney Mark Lanier in securing some of the largest national mass tort verdicts in recent history on behalf of consumers injured by defective drugs and medical devices, as well as handling business and commercial matters for individuals and businesses on a contingency basis. When Lee is not working, he enjoys spending time with his family, cooking and dining out, and keeping fit.
Proven verdicts and settlements at The Lanier Law Firm
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A St. Louis jury in July 2018 awarded 22 women and their families $4.69 billion, the largest U.S. verdict of that year, finding that asbestos in Johnson & Johnson's talcum powder products caused ovarian cancer; a Missouri appellate court upheld $2.11 billion in 2020.
After a six-week federal trial, a jury found three of the nation's largest retail pharmacy chains created a public nuisance by flooding Lake and Trumbull Counties, Ohio with opioid pills, and a judge ordered $650 million to fund a 15-year abatement plan.
A Dallas federal jury awarded $1.04 billion to six California patients harmed by Johnson and Johnson's metal-on-metal Pinnacle hip implants, with W. Mark Lanier leading an eight-week trial that produced one of the largest product-liability verdicts of 2016.
Hours before opening arguments in the first federal opioid bellwether trial, Cuyahoga and Summit counties in Ohio secured a $260 million settlement from distributors AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health, and McKesson, plus manufacturer Teva.
A Dallas federal jury awarded six New York patients $247 million against Johnson and Johnson and its DePuy unit, finding that the metal-on-metal Pinnacle hip implant system was defectively designed and that the company concealed known risks from patients and surgeons.
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