Attorney Search Results: Water Contamination

Laura J. Baughman

For Laura Baughman, her decision to become an advocate for people and communities hurt by exposure to toxic substances was personal. As a child, Laura's pediatrician feared that she was one of several children in her community who had developed leukemia suspected to be caused by contamination... Read More


Stephen T. Blackburn

Stephen Blackburn remembers the precise moment he decided to study law. In his home state of Florida, he attended a county commission meeting to speak out against a company planning to build a cement plant that would spew dioxin and other pollutants into the air. The company threatened to... Read More


Carla M. Burke

Carla Burke, an attorney and shareholder with Baron & Budd’s water contamination litigation group, began her legal career with the firm’s appellate section. She has a gift for writing and oral advocacy that has been very persuasive in the MTBE Multi-District Litigation cases. Carla has also... Read More


Celeste A. Evangelisti

Celeste Evangelisti is passionate about clean water–so much so that she has devoted the past several years of her career to representing individuals, municipalities, and water suppliers seeking clean-up costs for contamination damaging community water supplies. Hard-driving and tenacious, her... Read More


Stephen C. Johnston

A hard-working and determined advocate, shareholder Stephen Johnston has served Baron & Budd clients since 1997. Stephen puts his degree in Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences to good use as an attorney with the firm's water contamination litigation section, representing individuals and... Read More


Cary McDougal

Over the nearly two decades that he has practiced law, Cary McDougal has proven to be a formidable trial lawyer with unflinching resolve to serve his clients. Cary has been lead attorney in over 75 jury trials in state and federal court. He has tried cases involving such diverse areas of the law... Read More


M. Cristina Sanchez

Cristina Sanchez had originally planned on going to medical school, but her work at a small plaintiffs’ firm after college inspired her to instead pursue a career in law. Cristina worked for the same firm while in law school and joined Baron & Budd in 2005. “I came to Baron & Budd because I... Read More


Scott Summy

Dallas-based Baron & Budd, P.C. has long been on the cutting-edge of litigation battling polluters for redress for illness and damage caused by environmental contamination. And water contamination is no different. Under the leadership of Attorney Scott Summy, who successfully... Read More


Chad A. West

Chad West was drawn to Baron & Budd because of the firm’s groundbreaking role in protecting water quality for communities and individuals. Chad grew up on a Midwest farm where he learned to appreciate the importance of water. “I wanted to use my law degree to protect this precious resource from... Read More