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17 RPWB Attorneys Selected for Best Lawyers in America List

MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C – Seventeen RPWB attorneys were selected for the 2024 edition of The Best Lawyers in America® list for numerous practice areas including personal injury, product liability, mass tort, class action, qui tam and medical malpractice litigation.

This marks the seventh consecutive year in which RPWB is the top-listed plaintiff law firm in South Carolina for class action & mass tort litigation.

RPWB member Kim Keevers Palmer was selected as Lawyer of the Year in Charleston for mass tort and class action litigation. Christiaan Marcum was Lawyer of the Year in Charleston for his product liability work.

Additionally, three RPWB attorneys were selected for the “Ones to Watch” category that is reserved for younger, up-and-coming lawyers.

Here is the full list of RPWB attorneys on the 2024 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®:

James C. Bradley

  • Litigation – Antitrust
  • Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs

Michael J. Brickman

  • Antitrust Law
  • Litigation – Securities
  • Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs

Nina Fields Britt

  • Antitrust Law
  • Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs

Elizabeth M. Burke

  • Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs
  • Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs
  • Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs

J. David Butler

  • Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs
  • Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs

Jerry Hudson Evans

  • Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs
  • Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs

Gregory A. Lofstead

  • Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs
  • Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs

Christiaan Marcum

  • Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs
  • Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs

Kim Keevers Palmer

  • Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs

Charles W. Patrick, Jr.

  • Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs
  • Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs

Thomas D. Rogers

  • Medical Malpractice Law – Plaintiffs
  • Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs

A. Hoyt Rowell III

  • Health Care Law
  • Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs

T. Christopher Tuck

  • Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs
  • Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs
  • Qui Tam Law

Edward J. Westbrook

  • Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs

Kenneth J. Wilson

  • Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs
  • Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs

Robert S. Wood

  • Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs
  • Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs

Ones to Watch – Designation for younger attorneys

D. Charles Dukes

  • Antitrust Law
  • Commercial Litigation
  • Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs
  • Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs
  • Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs

Theodore Hargrove II

  • Commercial Litigation

Matthew A. Nickles

  • Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs
  • Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs

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With Sixteen Attorneys Named to Best Lawyers List, RPWB is the Top-Listed Product Liability and Class Action Law Firm in the State

Sixteen RPWB attorneys were selected for the 2023 edition of The Best Lawyers in America® list for numerous practice areas including personal injury, product liability, mass tort, class action and medical malpractice litigation.

This marks the sixth consecutive year in which RPWB is the top-listed plaintiff law firm in South Carolina for both product liability litigation and class action & mass tort litigation.

RPWB member Beth Burke was selected as personal injury lawyer of the year in Charleston, South Carolina. In addition to working on medical malpractice and personal injury cases, Burke serves in the leadership of the national lawsuit against 3M for supplying military personnel with defective earplugs. She also represents Marine Corps veterans who developed cancer and other serious conditions after consuming contaminated water at Camp Lejeune between 1953 and 1987.

Beth Burke is personal injury lawyer of the year in Charleston, S.C.

 

Here is the full list of RPWB attorneys on the 2023 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®:

Mount Pleasant, S.C.

Nina Fields Britt – Mass Tort/Class Actions Litigation

Beth Burke – Mass Tort/Class Actions, Personal Injury & Product Liability Litigation

Jerry Evans – Mass Tort/Class Actions & Product Liability Litigation

Kim Keevers Palmer – Mass Tort/Class Actions Litigation

Greg Lofstead – Product Liability & Mass Tort/Class Actions Litigation

Christiaan Marcum – Mass Tort/Class Actions & Product Liability Litigation

Tom Rogers – Medical Malpractice Law & Personal Injury Litigation

Hoyt Rowell – Healthcare Law & Mass Tort/Class Actions Litigation

Chris Tuck – Mass Tort/Class Actions, Product Liability Litigation & Qui Tam Law

Ed Westbrook – Mass Tort/Class Actions Litigation

Bobby Wood – Mass Tort/Class Actions & Product Liability Litigation

Charleston, S.C.

Michael Brickman – Antitrust Law, Mass Tort/Class Actions & Securities Litigation

Charles Patrick, Jr. – Mass Tort/Class Actions & Product Liability Litigation

Aiken, S.C.

Dave Butler – Personal Injury & Product Liability Litigation

Ken Wilson – Personal Injury & Product Liability Litigation

Edwardsville, Ill.

Jena Borden – Mass Tort/Class Actions & Product Liability Litigation

Ones to Watch

Three younger attorneys at the firm are recognized as “Ones to Watch,” a distinction for up-and-coming attorneys.

  • Chuck Dukes is listed for antitrust law, commercial litigation, mass tort/class action litigation, personal injury litigation and product liability litigation.
  • Matt Nickles is honored for personal injury and product liability litigation.
  • TAC Hargrove was selected for commercial litigation following his work on litigation associated with the failed V.C. Summer nuclear expansion project.

About Best Lawyers

Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers® has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Best Lawyers lists are compiled based on an exhaustive peer-review evaluation. More than 116,000 industry leading lawyers are eligible to vote (from around the world), and we have received more than 17 million evaluations on the legal abilities of other lawyers based on their specific practice areas around the world. For the 2023 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®, more than 12.2 million votes were analyzed. Lawyers are not required nor allowed to pay a fee to be listed; therefore, inclusion in Best Lawyers is considered a singular honor.

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RPWB Welcomes a New Member

Matt Nickles, who has worked as an associate at our firm since 2014, became a member at the beginning of this year.

Nickles focuses on medical malpractice, nursing home neglect, catastrophic personal injury, premises liability, product liability, class actions and other complex litigation. He is experienced in litigating medical malpractice and pharmacy liability cases, including the case of a young girl with developmental disabilities who died as a result of being prescribed a fatal dose of phenobarbital.

A native of Columbia, Nickles was exposed to the law at an early age. His mother worked as general counsel for the state Department of Social Services and his father is a well-known attorney who took on the video poker industry.

It was those early experiences and the stories told around the dinner table that sparked an interest in the law. Nickles graduated with a degree in European history from Washington & Lee University and a law degree from the University of South Carolina School of Law.

During law school, he interned for the Honorable Margaret Seymour, a federal judge in the District of South Carolina, and clerked for RPWB.

Following graduation, he worked for a Columbia defense firm, Walker Reibold, before spending two years as a law clerk for the Honorable Richard Gergel.

We are thrilled to have him as a part of our membership.

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RPWB is a US News 2021 Best Law Firm

CHARLESTON, S.C. – U.S. News & World Report has named Rogers, Patrick, Westbrook & Brickman as a 2021 Best Law Firm for its work in personal injury, product liability, mass torts, medical malpractice, securities litigation, healthcare law and railroad law.

The announcement by U.S. News followed RPWB’s inclusion on the 2021 Best Lawyers in America list, in which 15 RPWB attorneys were recognized for their work. RPWB was the top-listed plaintiff law firm in South Carolina for personal injury, product liability cases and mass tort litigation.

Click here for a complete roundup of listed attorneys and the firm’s rankings.

RPWB attorneys regularly hold leadership positions in class actions and other mass torts across the nation. We are currently serving leadership roles in both the 3M Combat Arms Earplugs MDL and the Aqueous Film-Forming Foams Product Liability MDL. The firm played a pivotal role in litigation associated with the failed VC Summer Nuclear Power Plant project. The resulting settlements provided billions in relief for South Carolina’s ratepayers and resolved some of the most complicated litigation in the state’s history.

Since 1976, RPWB attorneys have represented people diagnosed with mesothelioma in nearly every U.S. state and territory. We were among the first attorneys in the nation to win a mesothelioma lawsuit against asbestos manufacturers.

The firm’s usefulness even extends across international borders. RPWB attorneys serve as foreign legal consultants for six Canadian provinces seeking to recoup public money spent on smoking-related illnesses, and recently resolved litigation associated with an Egyptian dive boat fire that claimed the life of an American tourist.

While RPWB takes heart in providing widespread relief to people who have been wronged, the firm remains deeply rooted in our work to help individuals at the time they need it the most.

RPWB represents clients in many types of cases, including wrongful death and personal injury, truck accidents, railroad accidents, construction defects, medical malpractice, occupational lung disease, whistleblower & qui tam, nursing home abuse, and pharmaceutical drug and medical device injury.

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RPWB is a 2020 U.S. News & World Report Best Law Firm

CHARLESTON, S.C. – U.S. News & World Report has named Richardson, Patrick, Westbrook & Brickman as a 2020 Best Law Firm for the firm’s work in personal injury, mass torts and class actions, product liability, medical malpractice, securities litigation, healthcare law and railroad law.

U.S. News’ announcement came on the heels of the 2020 Best Lawyers in America list, in which 16 RPWB attorneys were recognized for work in their respective practice and geographic areas. This included a Personal Injury Lawyer of the Year designation for Dave Butler, an asbestos lawyer who works across the country helping people with mesothelioma lawsuits from his office in Aiken, South Carolina.

RPWB was the top-listed plaintiff law firm in South Carolina for work on product liability cases, class action lawsuits and mass torts. In 2019, the firm had the most lawyers on the list in the entire country for mass torts and class actions.

RPWB was founded in 2002, when four of the six shareholders of the very successful law firm Ness, Motley, Loadholt, Richardson & Poole formed a new firm to focus on complex litigation throughout the United States.

RPWB attorneys regularly hold leadership positions on class actions and other mass torts across the nation. In 2019, RPWB lawyers were named to the leadership of national lawsuits, including the 3M Combat Arms Earplug MDL and the Aqueous Film-Forming Foams Product Liability MDL.

The firm remains deeply rooted in work to help mesothelioma victims. Terry Richardson, a founding member of RPWB, was one of the first attorneys in the nation to win a mesothelioma lawsuit against asbestos manufacturers. Since then, RPWB has successfully represented mesothelioma victims throughout the United States. Several attorneys at the firm played pivotal roles in the fight against tobacco companies in the 1990s that led to the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement. RPWB is currently helping six Canadian provinces in their fight to recoup money spent on treating smoking-related illnesses.

In addition to national litigation, RPWB also works on individual lawsuits in a variety of practice areas, including: wrongful death, catastrophic personal injury, truck accidents, railroad accidents, construction defects, medical malpractice, mesothelioma and other occupational lung disease, whistleblower & qui tam, nursing home abuse, pharmaceutical drugs and medical device cases.

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16 RPWB Lawyers Selected For Best Lawyers List

CHARLESTON – RPWB was once again the top-listed plaintiff law firm in South Carolina for product liability cases as well as mass tort and class action lawsuits in the 2020 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®, which was released in August 2019.

In total, 16 RPWB attorneys were designated as 2020 Best Lawyers, including David Butler, who was chosen as the personal injury lawyer of the year in the Augusta, Ga. metropolitan area. Butler, who works out of Aiken, S.C., has devoted much of his career representing asbestos victims who have developed mesothelioma, but he also works on other personal injury and product liability cases.

Here are the RPWB attorneys named to the 2020 Best Lawyers list:

Michael J. Brickman
Litigation – Securities
Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs

Elizabeth M. Burke
Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs
Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs
Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs

David Butler
Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs
Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs

Blair Hahn
Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs
Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs

Gregory A. Lofstead
Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs
Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs

Christiaan Marcum
Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs
Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs

Kim Keevers Palmer
Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs

Terry E. Richardson, Jr.
Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships)
Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs
Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs
Railroad Law

Thomas D. Rogers
Medical Malpractice Law – Plaintiffs
Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs

Hoyt Rowell III
Health Care Law
Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs

Christopher Tuck
Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs

Charles W. Patrick, Jr.
Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs
Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs

Edward J. Westbrook
Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs

Kenneth J. Wilson
Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs

Bobby Wood
Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs

Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Best Lawyers lists are compiled based on an exhaustive peer-review evaluation. Almost 94,000 industry leading lawyers are eligible to vote (from around the world), and we have received over 11 million evaluations on the legal abilities of other lawyers based on their specific practice areas around the world. For the 2020 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America, 8.3 million votes were analyzed, which resulted in more than 62,000 leading lawyers being included in the new edition. Lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed; therefore inclusion in Best Lawyers is considered a singular honor. Corporate Counsel magazine has called Best Lawyers “the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice.”

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RPWB is a 2019 U.S. News Best Law Firm

CHARLESTON, S.C. – Richardson, Patrick, Westbrook & Brickman was named a 2019 Best Law Firm by U.S. News & World Report, recognizing the plaintiff firm for its work on mass torts and class actions, product liability, securities, healthcare law, medical malpractice and personal injury lawsuits.

With 16 lawyers listed on the underlying Best Lawyers in America list, RPWB was the top-listed plaintiff law firm in the country for its work on mass torts and class actions. RPWB was the top-listed plaintiff law firm in South Carolina for mass torts, personal injury and product liability.

Four RPWB attorneys were new to the list: Brady Thomas, Chris Tuck, Bobby Wood and Ken Wilson. RPWB founding member Ed Westbrook was named Lawyer of the Year for class actions and mass torts in the Charleston-area.

Here are the RPWB attorneys named to the 2019 Best Lawyers list:

Michael Brickman
Litigation – Securities
Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions – Plaintiffs

Elizabeth Middleton Burke
Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions – Plaintiffs
Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs
Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs

David Butler
Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs
Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs

Greg Lofstead
Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions – Plaintiffs
Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs

Christiaan Marcum
Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions – Plaintiffs
Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs

Kim Keevers Palmer
Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions – Plaintiffs

Charles Patrick
Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions – Plaintiffs
Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs

Terry Richardson
Business Litigation
Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions – Plaintiffs
Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs
Railroad Law

Tom Rogers
Medical Malpractice Law – Plaintiffs
Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs

Hoyt Rowell
Health Care Law
Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions – Plaintiffs

Chris Tuck
Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions – Plaintiffs

Ed Westbrook
Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions – Plaintiffs

Ken Wilson
Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs

Bobby Wood
Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions – Plaintiffs

About RPWB

RPWB was formed in 2002 as a collective of talented legal minds who focus on complex litigation throughout the United States. The firm is well-respected for its work on mass torts and product liability cases, including mesothelioma lawsuits and pharmaceutical litigation. RPWB attorneys regularly hold leadership positions on class actions and other mass torts across the nation.

RPWB founding member Terry Richardson was among the first attorneys in the nation to successfully hold asbestos manufacturers liable for causing mesothelioma cancer. Several attorneys at the firm played pivotal roles in the fight against tobacco companies in the 1990s that led to the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement. Some of those same attorneys are currently assisting six Canadian provinces seeking to recoup public healthcare spending on smoking-related illnesses.

In addition to national litigation, RPWB also represents individual people in many practice areas, including: catastrophic personal injury, truck accidents, railroad accidents, construction defects, medical malpractice, mesothelioma and other occupational lung disease, whistleblower & qui tam, nursing home abuse, pharmaceutical drugs and medical device cases.

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