Gregory A. Lofstead Member

Greg Lofstead is an RPWB member who focuses on occupational lung disease cases and on helping governments recoup public health spending on tobacco-related illnesses.

His work includes representing underground and surface coal miners in West Virginia who develop silicosis, coal workers’ pneumoconiosis and progressive massive fibrosis.  He also serves as a foreign legal consultant to Canadian provinces in litigation to hold tobacco companies accountable for smoking-related health expenditures by the government.

Areas of Practice

• Silicosis
• Coal Workers’ Pneumoconiosis
• Tobacco Foreign Legal Consultant

Admissions

• 1996, South Carolina
• 2000, U.S. District Court, District of South Carolina
• 2018, District of Columbia
• 2018, West Virginia

Education

• West Virginia University, J.D., 1996
• West Virginia University, B.A., cum laude, 1992

Professional Memberships

• South Carolina Bar
• Trial Lawyers for Public Justice (Finalist, Trial Lawyer of the Year, 2003)
• Best Lawyers in America, 2018 (Product Liability Litigation)