Attorney Search Results: Mesothelioma and Asbestos

Sharon Bautista

Sharon Bautista, an attorney with the firm's Appellate Section, joined Baron & Budd in 2005, shortly after graduating with honors from the prestigious University of Texas School of Law. During law school, Sharon interned with the Equal Justice Center/Central Texas Immigrant Workers Rights... Read More

Jennifer K. Berg

Jenny Berg works with clients in California who suffer from mesothelioma, working to ensure that these clients receive their day in trial as quickly as possible and helping to guide their cases through the litigation process.

Jenny became a lawyer because she wanted to help people. ... Read More

Russell W. Budd

Russell W. Budd is an acclaimed lawyer who has parlayed his aptitude for cool-headed negotiations into calm yet decisive management of the 200-plus staff at Baron & Budd. As a shareholder for over 20 years and managing shareholder and president of the firm since 2002, Russell has successfully... Read More

Denyse F. Clancy

Shareholder Denyse Clancy joined the firm in 2004, already an accomplished litigator focusing on injuries caused by exposure to benzene and other toxic solvents and chemicals. In addition to her toxic tort practice, she has litigated medical malpractice, breach of contract, fraud, product defect... Read More

Christopher C. Colley

Christopher Colley has dedicated his career to protecting the rights of asbestos victims and seeking compensation for their injuries. Chris worked with the Dallas-based law firm Silber Pearlman until the firm consolidated with Baron & Budd in 2008.Chris strives to help his clients... Read More

Ann Harper

Ann Harper has spent her career representing workers who have developed mesothelioma and other serious illnesses caused exposure to asbestos.  She is an attorney in Baron & Budd’s settlement department, where she works through the issues necessary to get the firm’s clients compensation in... Read More

Melissa K. Hutts

Melissa Hutts, a Baron & Budd shareholder, is an accomplished trial lawyer who has won significant jury awards in Texas and Louisiana on behalf of workers who developed mesothelioma and other asbestos-related diseases. Beloved by Baron & Budd staff and clients alike, Melissa is known... Read More

Alana Kalantzakis

Alana Kalantzakis doesn’t do things half way. At Southern Methodist University, she majored in English and Spanish and minored in philosophy and psychology. After college, she moved straight on to law school, already sure of what she wanted to do and why. “I believe that everyone deserves a... Read More

J. Todd Kale

J. Todd Kale joined Baron & Budd in 2008 when the firm consolidated with Dallas-based law firm Silber Pearlman.  Todd worked with mesothelioma sufferers and other victims of asbestos-related disease at Silber Pearlman from 1993, shortly after the law firm was founded, and continues that work... Read More

John Langdoc

John Langdoc, an attorney and shareholder with Baron & Budd, is no stranger to the often complex medical and scientific issues involved in the cases he tries. Before becoming a lawyer, he was a scientist who studied how the brain works. At Baylor College of Medicine he researched the brains of... Read More

Jo Ann Lea

Jo Ann Lea is an attorney in Baron & Budd’s Louisiana office, where she represents individuals suffering from mesothelioma and other asbestos-related diseases.  Before joining Baron & Budd, Jo Ann practiced at Baton Rouge-based LeBlanc & Waddell.  Jo Ann has been... Read More

Laurie J. Meggesin

It was not a coincidence that Laurie Meggesin joined Baron & Budd straight out of law school in 1995. While working in the field of social services and non-profit management in Dallas, Laurie was intrigued by several cases in the press—all of which were handled by Baron &... Read More

Renée Melançon

Renée Melançon is a shareholder with Baron & Budd's appellate section. Since joining the firm in 2001, Renée has worked on a variety of toxic tort cases involving complex and novel legal issues. For example, Renée was a member of the team that in 2006 was awarded the prestigious... Read More

Michael S. Mills

The most important job that an attorney has is counselling his clients, and his background gives Michael Mills a particular gift for counselling clients. After graduating from seminary in 1995, Michael spent more than a decade in active ministry—serving for much of that time in Dallas, but also... Read More

Marty A. Morris

Marty Morris was an attorney with a well-known commercial litigation firm for several years before joining Baron & Budd in 1999. He now works with the firm's asbestos litigation group, representing people with mesothelioma and other asbestos-related diseases and assisting with the oversight... Read More

Christopher B. Norris

Chris Norris started his career at Baron & Budd years ago as a paralegal, honing his skills and understanding of the law in through the intensity of trial. When Chris left the firm to attend law school, he was missed. But Baron & Budd was pleased to welcome him back as an attorney, now... Read More

Jeffrey O' Connell

Jeffrey O’Connell, formerly an attorney with Dallas-based law firm Silber Pearlman which consolidated with Baron & Budd in 2008, has spent his legal career in the service of asbestos victims—people suffering from diseases like malignant mesothelioma.  Jeff was outraged to find that... Read More

Jason Placke

Jason Placke, a native Louisianan who works in Baron & Budd’s Baton Rouge, Louisiana office, knew by the time he was 8 years old that one day he would be a lawyer.  As he listened to his Uncle Allan and Great Uncle Edgar talk with passion about the opportunities they had as lawyers to help... Read More

Eric Policastro

Eric Policastro tried his first case at the age of 10, when his 5th grade teacher taught her class about the American civil justice system by holding a scripted mock trial. She assigned Eric to be the plaintiff’s lawyer, and Eric discovered how much he loved the law, the trial process and the... Read More

Shaneka L. Reese

Shaneka helps the firm’s clients negotiate their way through bankruptcy claims and the settlement process. She came to Baron & Budd because of her desire to help people, and she is able to work with individual clients every day.

“I enjoy the feeling that I’m actually making a difference... Read More

Allen Vaught

Allen Vaught has served his country and his community in three different ways: as a captain in the U.S. Army, as a Texas State Representative and as an attorney for injured workers.

In the Texas House of Representatives, Allen has served as Chairman of the Subcommittee on Violent Crimes, Vice... Read More

Jeff Whitfield

Prior to becoming an attorney, Jeff Whitfield was a Captain in the United States Air Force and a distinguished graduate of the United States Air Force Academy. In fact, Jeff was the Outstanding Graduate in Legal Studies from the Class of 1996. During his more then ten years in uniform, he served... Read More