National Law Journal Selects Baron & Budd as One of Fifteen Firms on “2008 Plaintiffs’ Hot List”
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BARON & BUDD is dedicated to Protecting What’s Right for individuals, companies, governments and other entities in states throughout the country. As a plaintiffs’ law firm, we make it our job to keep a watchful eye on the ways that individuals and communities can be hurt by corporate misconduct and to provide legal assistance to those who have been harmed. We have the longevity (over 30 years), the resources (over 50 lawyers and 200 staff) and the dedication to take on some of the most daunting legal challenges.

Our work over the last three decades has earned us a national reputation as a leader among plaintiffs’ lawyers, as recognized by The National Law Journal’s inclusion of Baron & Budd in its yearly “Hot List” of exemplary plaintiffs’ firms for six out of the seven years the list has been published. Our work includes representation of individuals with mesothelioma and other diseases caused by asbestos; injuries caused by other toxic substances and unsafe pharmaceuticals; water authorities seeking clean-up costs for drinking water contamination; government entities and whistleblowers fighting corporate fraud through qui tam and False Claims Act cases; securities investors defrauded by corporate wrongdoing; and consumers and businesses in class actions and insurance litigation.

Featured Case | National MTBE Settlement Provides Protection for Public Drinking Water

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Water is one of our most precious and essential natural resources. It is a symbol of purity. But modern industry has put our water at risk. Water pollution threatens to make our water undrinkable in some areas. A wide range of water edit contaminants—chemicals like MTBE, solvents like TCE and PCE, fertilizers and pesticides such as atrazine—are a real risk to the quality of our water, and Baron & Budd has stepped up to protect the purity and safety of our water supply.

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Baron & Budd Attorney Kevin McHargue Speaks at Harris Martin Texas Asbestos Litigation Conference

DALLAS, Texas (November 21, 2008) Kevin McHargue, an attorney and shareholder with the Dallas-based law firm Baron & Budd, P.C., spoke this week at the Harris Martin Texas Asbestos Litigation Conference. The conference was held in Houston, Texas on November 20th.

Millbury Ave. Well and Water Treatment Facility in Millbury, Massachusetts back in service after tests show no more perchlorate

The Millbury Ave. Well and Water Treatment Facility are back in service several weeks after perchlorate found in the water forced a temporary shutdown. The August 28th lab analysis found 10.2 parts per billion of perchlorate in the water, more than five times the amount allowed under Massachusetts 2006 Maximum Contaminant Level (MCL) for the chemical.

EPA and NJDEP finalize plan for cleanup of Evor Phillips Leasing Co. site in Old Bridge Township, NJ

The EPA and the NJ Dept of Environmental Protection have finalized plans for the cleanup of the Evor Phillips Leasing Co. Superfund site. The site consists of 6 acres of contaminated soil with more than a thousand buried waste containers.

Government joins in Qui Tam suit against South Carolina Tuomey Healthcare System

Tuomey Healthcare System in Sumter, South Carolina is the subject of a lawsuit filed under the False Claims Act, and now joined by the federal government. The case involves job contracts offered to a group of physicians by the Tuomey Outpatient Surgery Center, which contracts are claimed to violate the Stark Law.

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Two South Korean families sue Japanese firm for mesothelioma deaths

The families of two South Korean residents who lived near a Japanese asbestos manufacturing company have sued for damages arising out of the residents’ deaths from mesothelioma. The suit is the first filed in South Korea by residents living near an asbestos factory. Local environmental... Read More

Union leader James Middleton, who revealed mesothelioma risk at Johns-Manville plant, dead at 72

James Middleton has died at 72 after a long lung illness. The former union leader was instrumental in revealing the danger of asbestos and chemical exposures at the Waukegan, Illinois Johns-Manville plant. He was the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Waukegan Local 60’s business manager from... Read More