Why Should You Choose Levin Papantonio for your Personal Injury Case?

Experience

Levin, Papantonio, Thomas, Mitchell, Rafferty, & Proctor &, P.A. has been involved in complex litigation and class action lawsuits for over a decade. Firm attorneys have served on the Plaintiffs' Management Committee, Discovery Committee, and Expert Witness Committee for the In Re: Diet Drugs Products Liability Litigation , MDL No. 1203, as well as Plaintiffs' Steering Committee for the In Re: Propulsid Products Liability Litigation, MDL No. 1355. The firm was on the Plaintiffs' Steering Committee, and established and managed the document depository for the In Re: Factor VIII or IX Concentrate Blood Products Litigation, MDL No. 986. Mr. Papantonio was Florida liaison counsel for the In Re: Silicone Gel Breast Implant Litigation, MDL 926. Firm attorneys likewise served on the Plaintiffs' Steering Committee, Discovery Committee (Co-Chair) and Science Committee for the In Re: Rezulin Products Liability Litigation, MDL 1348.

Reputation

Dubbed one of America's most winning law firms by the National Law Journal and perhaps best known for its history of plaintiff jury verdicts and its key role in the tobacco and diet-drug national settlements, the Levin Papantonio firm has represented clients throughout the nation, including thousands of Asbestos cases, more than 2,000 Breast Implant cases, more than 4,000 Fen-Phen cases, and hundreds of clients involved in each of the following: Hemophiliac-AIDs, Rexzulin, Baycol, PPA, Zyprexa, Bextra and Vioxx .

Leadership

Recently, firm attorneys have been selected to serve in leadership positions on several currently pending mass tort MDLs, including: Plaintiffs' Steering Committee and Discovery Committee (Co-Chair) for the In Re: Vioxx Products Liability Litigation, MDL 1657; Plaintiffs' Steering Committee (Co-Chair), plaintiff's Law and Briefing Committee, and Science Committee and Discovery Committee for the In Re: Zyprexa Products Liability Litigation, MDL 1596; Member Plaintiff's Steering Committee and Discovery Committee (Co-Chair), In Re: Bextra/Celebrex Litigation, MDL1699; Plaintiff's Co-Lead Counsel for the In Re: Cisco Systems Securities Litigation, MDL No. 1527; as Discovery Co-Chair for the In Re: Accutane Products Liab. Litigation, MDL No. 1626; as Discovery Co-Chair for the In Re: Medtronic, Inc., Implantable Defibrillators Product Liab. Litigation, MDL No. 1726; as a Member of the Plaintiffs Steering Committee for the In Re: Guidant Corp. Implantable Defibrillators Product Liability Litigation , MDL No. 1708; and the Discovery Committee for the In Re: Phenylpropanolamine ("PPA") Product Liab. Litig., MDL No. 1407.

Active Involvement

The firm has been actively involved in several other mass torts  and class actions, including litigation involving L-Tryptophan, Dalkon Shield, The Amtrak Derailment (In Re: Amtrak ASunset Limited@ Train Crash in Bayou Canot, Alabama, on September 22, 1993, MDL No. 1003), Microsoft (In Re: Microsoft Corp. Antitrust Litigation, MDL No. 1332), AOL (In Re: America Online, Inc., Version 5.0 Software Litigation, MDL No. 1341), MCI (In Re: MCI Non-Subscriber Telephone Rates Litigation, MDL No. 1275), Florida Tobacco Litigation, Insurance (Annie Mae Phelan v. Life Insurance Company of Georgia, Inc., et al., Class Action CV 94-002696), and other discrimination and consumer fraud class actions. Also of note, firm attorneys currently serve Plaintiffs Steering Committee and Trial Committee (Co-Chair) of the In Re: High Sulfur Content Gasoline Products Liability Litigation, MDL 1632.

Our Attorneys

Attorneys Fred Levin, Mike Papantonio, Troy Rafferty and Leo Thomas are listed in the publication Best Lawyers in America. Mr. Papantonio is a fellow with the International Academy of Trial Lawyers and the International Society of Barristers .

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