Thomas R. Anapol concentrates his practice in pharmaceutical and medical device litigation, medical malpractice, Asbestos and other catastrophic injury-related civil litigation. He currently serves as a Board of Governor for the association and is co-chair of its membership committee. He is also a member of the Philadelphia Association for Justice and AAJ. He is co-chair of AAJ’s Hydroxycut Litigation Group and writes for the Legal Intelligencer in Philadelphia. Mr. Anapol is a shareholder of Anapol Schwartz Anapol, Schwartz, Weiss, Cohan, Feldman & Smalley, P.C.
Jennie Lee Anderson focuses on representing individuals and classes in employment, products liability, civil rights, antitrust, personal injury and mass tort litigation. Ms. Anderson is a member of AAJ, the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association, Consumer Attorneys of California, the Bar Association of San Francisco, the National Lawyers Guild and the Public Justice Foundation. Ms. Anderson also serves on the La Raza Centro Legal Fund Development Board and on Equal Rights Advocates Title IX Committee. Ms. Anderson is partner with the law firm of Andrus Anderson LLP in San Francisco, California.
Pamela A. Borgess focuses her practices in the areas of mass tort, wrongful death, medical and professional negligence and personal injury litigation. She is an active member of the Toledo Bar Association, Ohio Association for Justice (formerly the Ohio Trial Lawyers Association), the Ohio Bar Association, and the American Bar Association. Ms. Borgess is a member of AAJ’s Products Liability and Professional Negligence Sections and a member of AAJ’s Heparin Litigation Group. She is a partner with the firm Zoll, Kranz and Borgess, LLC in Toledo, Ohio.
Sejal K. Brahmbhatt concentrates her practice in pharmaceutical, personal injury, and labor and employment litigation. She is a member of the Houston Bar, Houston Trial Lawyers, Texas Trial Lawyers, and American Bar Associations. She also mentors underprivileged children through Child Advocates’ Young Professionals Division and volunteers with Network of Indian Professionals (NetIP). Ms. Brahmbhatt is with the law firm of Williams Kherkher Hart Boundas LLP in Houston, Texas.
Yvonne M. Flaherty, course advisor, concentrates her practice in mass tort, pharmaceutical and medical device, anti-trust, and consumer fraud litigation. She is a frequent lecturer on a variety of litigation topics, including mass torts, electronic discovery, and the learned intermediary doctrine. Ms. Flaherty currently serves on AAJ’s Board of Governors, is chair of the Women’s Caucus, second vice-chair of the Section on Toxic, Environmental, and Pharmaceutical Torts (STEP), and cochair of the Electronic Discovery Litigation Group. Ms. Flaherty is a partner with the firm Lockridge, Grindal, Nauen, PLLP in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Robert K. Jenner, course advisor, has 23 years experience representing injured consumers against the manufacturers of dangerous pharmaceutical drugs and defective medical devices. In addition, Mr. Jenner and his firm represent victims of birth trauma, medical negligence, and defective consumer products. He is a past chair of AAJ’s Section on Toxic, Environmental and Pharmaceutical Torts (STEP) and has chaired numerous pharmaceutical drug litigation groups. Mr. Jenner has been honored by his peers for inclusion in the Best Lawyers in America, the Maryland SuperLawyers, and the International Society of Barristers. He is a past president of the Maryland Association for Justice (formerly the Maryland Trial Lawyers Association) and a member of the AAJ’s Board of Governors. Mr. Jenner is a partner in the firm Janet, Jenner & Suggs, LLC in Baltimore, Maryland.
Julie Braman Kane practices in the areas of class action litigation, products liability, and personal injury. She is a former cochair of the AAJ’s NCA Board of Trustees. Ms. Kane has previously served as chair of both AAJ’s Products Liability Section and Women’s Caucus. A frequent lecturer throughout the United States and Canada, Ms. Kane also serves as an officer of the Miami-Dade Florida Association of Women Lawyers and sits on the Board of Directors of the Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers, where she is a past Chair of both the Young Lawyers Division and the Women’s Caucus. Ms. Kane is a partner at Colson Hicks Eidson in Coral Gables, Florida.
Peter L. Kaufman concentrates his practice in mass tort, class action, personal injury and pharmaceutical litigation and played a central role in the national Baycol and Vioxx litigations. He is a frequent speaker on pharmaceutical litigation, covering topics such as scientific evidence, trial preparation and case selection criteria. Mr. Kaufman is a veteran of the United States Army and a graduate of the Defense Language Institute and served with the 3d Armored Division, 533d Military Intelligence Battalion in Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. He is licensed to practice law before the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, the United States District Courts for the Northern and Middle Districts of Florida and all Florida state courts. He is a partner at Levin, Papantonio in Pensacola, Florida.
W. Mark Lanier concentrates his practice in personal injury and mass tort litigation. He is certified as a personal injury trial specialist by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. He is licensed to practice law in all Texas state and federal courts, New York state and U.S. Supreme Court. He is the founder of the Christian Trial Lawyers Association, and serves on the Board of Trustees of the Committee for Economic Development, a nonprofit nonpartisan organization that addresses ongoing critical economic and social issues facing society. Mr. Lanier is the founder of The Lanier Law Firm, with offices in Houston, Texas, New York, New York, and Los Angeles, California.
Karen Barth Menzies concentrates her practice on pharmaceutical drug litigation. Ms. Menzies has been at the forefront of litigation involving the SSRI-antidepressants (including Paxil, Zoloft and Prozac) litigation against defendants such as GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer and Eli Lilly in cases involving birth defects, suicide and withdrawal. Ms. Menzies is author of several SSRI and preemption related articles and was named California Lawyer of the Year by California Lawyer magazine, 2004, The National Law Journal’s Top 40 Under 40, and most recently a Consumer Attorney of the Year Finalist by Consumer Attorneys of California. She is cochair of AAJ’s Preemption Litigation and Avandia Litigation Groups. Ms Menzies recently joined the firm of Robinson, Calcagine & Robinson, in Newport Beach, California.
Tobi L. Millrood has been active in numerous mass torts, including Fen-Phen, Baycol, Meridia, Thimerosal, Ephedra, and hormone therapy. Currently, Mr. Millrood serves as Liaison Counsel in the consolidated Hormone Therapy Mass Tort Litigation in Philadelphia County. Mr. Millrood is a prior member of the Board of Governors of the Pennsylvania Association for Justice (formally the Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association), a member of the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association, chair of AAJ’s Hormone Therapy Litigation Group, and cochair of AAJ’s Meridia Litigation Group. He is a frequent speaker at various seminars, on the topic of mass tort litigation, hormone therapy, cardiac device litigation, Meridia, and the ethics of settling mass tort cases. Mr. Millrood is a partner in the firm Pogust, Braslow & Millrood, LLC in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania.
Howard L. Nations specializes in pharmaceutical litigation, catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases. He is Board Certified by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization as both a personal injury trial lawyer and a civil trial lawyer and is nationally board certified by the National Board of Trial Advocacy as a civil trial lawyer. Mr. Nations is former chair of AAJ’s NCA, president of the Belli Society, past president of the Texas Trial Lawyers Association, past president of the Southern Trial Lawyers Association, and Trustee of the American Jury Foundation. Mr. Nations served on AAJ’s Executive Committee as Vice President, Secretary, and Treasurer. He is a Diplomate of AAJ’s NCA and has spoken on legal issues in all 50 states and internationally. Howard L. Nations, P.C., is in Houston, Texas.
Christopher M. Placitella concentrates his practice in products liability litigation, and representing unions and their members in occupational injury and disease cases. He is a past president of the New Jersey Association for Justice and is frequent lecturer on public health issues and for CLE courses relating to mass torts, courtroom technology, and products liability. Mr. Placitella is the author of numerous articles on toxic tort litigation, as well as the author and publisher of a weekly video news update concerning important events relating to class actions, mass torts and consumer protection. Mr. Placitella is a partner in the law firm of Cohen, Placitella & Roth, P.C.
Anthony Z. Roisman has been involved in the litigation of environmental, radiation, and toxic tort issues before the state and federal courts and agencies since 1969 and has extensive experience in litigating claims for injury as a result of exposure to toxic substances. He served as the Senior Staff Attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), the Chief of the Hazardous Waste Section and Special Litigator for Hazardous Waste in the Lands and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, and the founding executive director of Public Justice. Mr. Roisman lectures frequently on expert witness admissibility issues and is the founding chair of AAJ’s Daubert Litigation Group. He is a Research Fellow in Environmental Studies at Dartmouth College, where he also has co-taught courses both in law and evidence and in environmental law, economics, and policy. Mr. Roisman is a managing partner with National Legal Scholars Law Firm, P.C. in Lyme, New Hampshire.
Sheri L. Tarr concentrates her law practice in pharmaceutical and medical device litigation, mass torts, products liability, and consumer fraud litigation. She is a former sales and marketing executive in the healthcare industry, and has been a retained expert in pharmaceutical product development and commercial practices. Ms. Tarr is a frequent speaker at AAJ seminars and conventions, and was recently a guest lecturer at Columbia University's MBA Program in Healthcare Marketing. Ms. Tarr is the founding partner of her law practice and consulting firm based in New York City, and serves as Counsel in the Avandia litigation to the Long Island firm of Sanders Viener Grossman, LLP.
Frank Woodson concentrates his practice in pharmaceutical litigation. He is a former president of Mobile County Young Lawyers and a member of Mobile County Bar Association Executive Committee and of the State of Alabama Young Lawyers Committee. Mr. Woodson currently serves as a Trustee on the Executive Committee of the Alabama Association for Justice and is the author of “Pharmaceutical Drug Litigation - An Overview,” “The Bayer Criminal Convictions,” and recently “Forget Tort reform, we want Immunity.” Mr. Woodson is a shareholder in Montgomery, Alabama office of Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, P.C.
