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Baum Hedlund is recognized as?a preeminent plaintiff firm that handles serious personal injury and wrongful death lawsuits across the nation arising from accidents around the world. The firm focuses its practice on commercial transportation accidents involving airline, general aviation, bus, train and commercial trucking. The firm also exposes and litigates defective pharmaceutical products, obtaining compensation for innocent victims when duties are neglected or willfully disregarded.
The firm?has successfully?represented hundreds of?individuals and thousands?of class?claimants from every state in the United States and 5 of the 7 continents.
Attorneys of Baum Hedlund have?served on 17 Plaintiffs' Steering Committees in mass tort litigation, 11 of which were for major airline crashes and the others for drug product liability, general aviation, train and faulty construction mass tort litigation. Among the families we have represented are victims in 70 commercial aviation (55 airline) cases, 80 commercial trucking accidents, 30 bus and train accidents, and thousands of victims of the antidepressants, Paxil, Prozac and Zoloft. The firm maintains a leadership role in antidepressant litigation and represents dozens of suicide and/or suicide attempt cases across the United States involving Paxil and?Lexapro/Celexa as well as children with heart defects from mother's who took Paxil during pregnancy.
Our law firm was established more than 30 years ago and has offices in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.? We have represented victims of serious personal injury and wrongful death for over 20 years.
Such litigation involves complex evidence and choice of law issues which have been routinely handled by the firm in both state and federal courts.? Many of our attorneys have delivered CLE accredited lectures on the complexities of mass tort litigation.
The firm's staff includes attorneys with varied backgrounds which offer a unique combination of skills that are particularly helpful when addressing? pilot errors, defective products and transportation safety.?Three of our attorneys have pilot experience: former Adjunct Aviation Accident Law Professor, Ronald L. M. Goldman, who is Board Certified by the National Board of Trial Advocacy as a Certified Trial Advocate has been practicing law for over 40 years and has been a private pilot for over 25 years; John Greaves is an airline-transport pilot that flew as a captain of a major airline; and?Robert Guilford, a former Assistant U.S. Attorney, is a commercial pilot who currently flies his own jet aircraft. In addition, Paul Hedlund was a mechanical engineer and Clark Aristei, a law professor. Karen Barth Menzies was one of ten lawyers named Lawyer of the Year by Lawyer's Weekly USA for her "Crusade For Suicide Warnings On Antidepressants." In 2005 she was named as one of the top attorneys in California as Lawyer of the Year by California Lawyer.
The majority of the?firm's attorneys attended top law schools such as?Harvard,?UCLA, USC and UC Davis. Attorneys in the firm have maintained the highest attorney rating and are listed in such publications as Martindale-Hubbell's Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers,?Aviation Counsel Magazine's list of Recommended High Flyers, believed by the International Air Transport Association's Legal Dept. to be one of the most elite lists of aviation law practitioners ever?produced,?Marquis Who's Who in the World, Marquis Who's Who in America and Marquis Who's Who in American Law, among others, which inclusion is solely based on merit alone.? The firm's long history of educational and professional excellence continues with its approach to the cases it is entrusted to handle.
The following is a partial listing of accidents and incidents in which the firm has represented victims:
- Plaintiffs' Liaison Counsel, Plaintiffs' Steering Committee Member, Glendale Metrolink Derailment Cases, Glendale California, 2004
- Member and Lead Counsel, Plaintiffs' Steering Committee, MDL-1574, Paxil Products Liability Litigation
- Trial Team Member, 2003, Airborne Charter Inc./Avjet, Aspen, Colorado, 2001
- Plaintiffs' Executive Committee, September 11, 2001?Tort Litigation
- Plaintiffs' Executive Committee, MDL-1448, American Airlines 587 Crash, Belle Harbor (Queens), New York, 2001
- Plaintiffs' Executive Committee, MDL-13394, Singapore Airlines SQ 006 Crash at Taipei, Taiwan, 2000
- Plaintiffs' Steering Committee, MDL-00-1343-CAL, Alaska Airlines Crash, off Point Mugu, California, 2000
- Trial Counsel, Consolidated Hemophilia-AIDS Cases, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1999
- Plaintiffs' Steering Committee, Atlantic Southeast Airlines Crash, near Carrollton, Georgia, 1995
- Plaintiffs' Steering Committee, Northridge Meadows Apartment Collapse, Northridge California Earthquake, 1994
- Plaintiffs' Steering Committee, Illinois State Court Proceedings for USAir 427 Aircrash near Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, 1994
- Trial Counsel, USAir 1016 Aircrash at Charlotte, North Carolina, 1994
- Plaintiffs' Steering Committee, USAir 1016 Aircrash at Charlotte, North Carolina, 1994
- Plaintiffs' Steering Committee, Fialuridine Product Liability Cases, Washington, D.C.
- Plaintiffs' Steering Committee, Perris Skydivers Crash, Perris, California, 1992
- Plaintiffs' Steering Committee, Prozac Product Liability Cases, Indianapolis, Indiana
- Plaintiffs' Steering Committee, Northwest Airlines Crash, Detroit, Michigan, 1990
- Trial Counsel, United Airlines Crash, Sioux City, Iowa, 1989
- Plaintiffs' Steering Committee, United Airlines Crash, Sioux City, Iowa, 1989
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