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About Manny Cabrera
Prior to joining The Lanier Law Firm, Mr. Cabrera served as an attorney at several defense firms in Houston representing commercial clients, including Fortune 500 companies, on general personal and catastrophic injury matters within trucking and premises liability cases. At The Lanier Law Firm, Mr. Cabrera is a law and motion attorney in the firm's asbestos practice in Houston , handling major motions and trial, pretrial, and post-trial briefing across the group's mesothelioma and asbestos exposure cases . Drawing on his years on the defense side, he brings an investigative curiosity to every matter, digging into the facts and the record so he can anticipate opposing arguments and answer them before they are raised. He is known for thorough research and for briefing built to leave no gap for the other side to exploit.
Colleagues rely on him as a dependable teammate to the firm's trial lawyers, and he works to understand each case inside and out, down to the details that decades-old exposure records can make hard to find. He also works closely with the firm's Spanish-speaking clients, communicating directly with them and their families and translating on matters beyond his own caseload. More recently, he has helped extend the group's work into silicosis litigation on behalf of individuals exposed to silica dust from engineered stone surfaces. He and his wife enjoy spending time
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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