An Attorney’s Most Memorable Mass Tort Case

I’ve been practicing in this particular field for decades now, and I’ve had quite a few memorable cases. And every lawyer’s gonna have one or two cases, just stay with them. Doing these types of cases where you represent thousands and thousands of people, it’s unique. We get an opportunity to really have one of those cases stay with you because of a relationship we have with the client, a result you’re able to get for a client, anything along those lines. But for me, my most memorable case is a family I represented in the Yaz birth control litigation. I had a father call me as that litigation was just kicking off and told me that he had a twenty one year old daughter who was in college and had been on birth control and had a massive stroke, that she did not survive. Being able to kind of talk to him about that, not as a lawyer, but just as a dad, because I’ve got daughters probably around the same age as his. And being able to walk him through not only his grief, but being able to channel some of that into some purpose and seeking some justice for himself and for his family, which we were able to do. We worked that case up for years and got an excellent result objectively. Nothing’s going to replace their daughter, and I don’t think it brought them joy necessarily, to get to the end of the road on that litigation. I think it gave them some satisfaction, and it gave them something to focus on, in the aftermath that grief that they were suffering. But I was just happy to be able to help walk that path with them for the course of several years. That one stayed with me for a long time.