Attorney Profiles

Bill Cash

• Associate
• Levin, Papantonio, Thomas, Mitchell, Rafferty, & Proctor, P.A.
• Pensacola, Florida
• Phone (local): (850) 435-7059
• Phone (toll free): (888) 435-7001
• Fax: (850) 435-7020
  
  
• bcash [at] levinlaw [dot] com

Mr. Cash represents people wrongfully injured across the United States and at all levels of the judicial system.  He concentrates his practice mainly in the area of products liability, including pharmaceuticals and other consumer products, but occasionally also handles other personal injury claims and contract cases.  His areas of interest include generic drug litigation, complex and multidistrict litigation, appellate practice, and advanced discovery strategy.

Mr. Cash is leader of the firm's Accutane department.  His primary focus is in wide-ranging litigation against Roche Laboratories, the inventor and former seller of the acne drug Accutane (isotretinoin), and against the manufacturers of generic isotretinoin.  These drugs can cause and aggravate inflammatory bowel disease in patients who take them.  In spring 2011, he tried the case of a California woman whose Accutane use caused her to develop inflammatory bowel disease; she was awarded $2.1 million for her injuries.  Mr. Cash also is a key author of Accutane appellate briefs at the intermediate and state supreme court levels.

Mr. Cash also represents patients injured by long-term use of the gastric motility drug Reglan (metoclopramide), as well as homeowners whose houses were built with corrosive Chinese drywall products.  In the Chinese drywall case, he helped to try the first federal bellwether case and has been appointed to committees formed by the Plaintiffs' Steering Committee in federal litigation.

Mr. Cash is a graduate of Capital University Law School in Columbus, Ohio.  He took his team to the final round of the first-year moot court competition, and then twice represented Capital in interscholastic competitions on its National Moot Court Team.  He also served two years on the Capital University Law Review, including one year on the executive board as the research editor.  Also during law school, he completed internships with two federal judges, the Hon. U.S. Circuit Judge Jeffrey S. Sutton and the Hon. U.S. District Judge Algenon L. Marbley, as well as served as research assistant to Prof. Bradley A. Smith, whom President Clinton appointed to chair the Federal Election Commission.  Mr. Cash finished law school summa cum laude and ranked third in his class.  He enjoys regularly returning to Capital to serve as a guest lecturer on products liability.

Before coming to Levin Papantonio, Mr. Cash served as a judicial law clerk to the Hon. U.S. District Judge M. Casey Rodgers in the Northern District of Florida.

Mr. Cash has been interviewed by National Public Radio's All Things Considered in connection with his work, and in print media in Florida and elsewhere.  He regularly speaks on pharmaceutical litigation at national conferences for attorneys who represent injured patients.  

He also is an accomplished software architect and designer and holds professional certifications in that field.

Areas of Practice:

• Products liability
• Pharmaceuticals litigation
• Personal injury
• Appellate practice

Bar Admissions:

• Florida
• Ohio
• New Jersey (pro hac vice only)
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
• U.S. District Court, Northern District of Florida
• U.S. District Court, Southern District of Ohio

Education:

• Capital University Law School, Columbus, Ohio
  J.D., summa cum laude
• Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
  B.A., College of Arts and Sciences
  Major: urban geography 
  Minor: economics

Professional Associations and Memberships:

• American Association for Justice
• American Bar Association
• National Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Bar Association
• Florida Justice Association, "Soaring Eagle" member
• Escambia/Santa Rosa Bar Association

Presentations:

• Accutane Litigation, Mass Torts Made Perfect, April 2010
• PLIVA v. Mensing, Mass Torts Made Perfect, October 2010 and April 2011
• Products Liability, Capital University, 2009-2011
• Complex Litigation, Capital University, September 2009

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