Three Lawyers from Baron & Budd Selected to The Best Lawyers in America© 2016 List

Budd, Summy, Tellis Named to Prestigious List

DALLAS (August 27, 2015) – Baron & Budd attorneys Russell Budd, Scott Summy and Roland Tellis have been selected to the prestigious Best Lawyers in America© 2016 list.

A highly respected publication, Best Lawyers® compiles a list of the nation’s most accomplished lawyers through confidential peer surveys. For the latest list, approximately 55,000 attorneys cast 6.7 million votes on the legal abilities of fellow lawyers. No firms are allowed to pay for their attorneys to be included on the list, so inclusion is an extremely important achievement.

“We are truly proud to once again be included on this very prestigious list,” said Russell Budd, president and managing shareholder of the national law firm of Baron & Budd. “This is an especially gratifying honor because it reflects the respect that other extremely accomplished attorneys around the nation have for the work we do.”

Budd was selected by Best Lawyers® in the areas of mass tort litigation/class actions – plaintiffs and personal injury litigation – plaintiffs. He has spent more than three decades working to protect the rights of plaintiffs who have been harmed due to corporate malfeasance. A shareholder in the national law firm of Baron & Budd since 1985 and managing shareholder since 2002, Budd and his firm have earned a great deal of notoriety during his career. The National Law Journal named Baron & Budd to its prestigious “Plaintiffs Hot List” eight times and Budd has been nominated for the Public Justice Trial Lawyers of the Year Award four times in the past eight years. Budd was also selected by Best Lawyers® as a 2016 Lawyer of the Year.

Baron & Budd shareholder Scott Summy was also selected to the list in the area of mass tort litigation/class actions – plaintiffs. This is the 10th year in a row Summy has been so honored. Summy’s practice is focused on water contamination cases and those efforts have yielded over a billion dollars in recoveries for his clients. Summy was one of the first attorneys in the United States to take action against the chemical company Monsanto for its role in contaminating schools with dangerous PCBs. Summy was also selected by Best Lawyers® as a 2016 Lawyer of the Year and has twice been nominated for the Public Justice Trial Lawyers of the Year Award.

Roland Tellis, who co-manages of Baron & Budd’s Los Angeles office, was named to the Best Lawyers in America© 2016 list in the area of commercial litigation. Tellis focuses in the areas of consumer class actions, automotive defect litigation, commercial litigation, consumer financial fraud and deceptive advertising. He was recently named as a member of the plaintiff’s steering committee in the Takata defective airbag MDL – the largest consumer product recall case in U.S. history – and was also appointed co-lead counsel in automotive defect litigation involving tens of millions of vehicles. He has also achieved multi-million dollar class action settlements for consumers in several deceptive advertising cases.

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About Baron & Budd, P.C.

The law firm of Baron & Budd, P.C., with offices in Dallas, Baton Rouge, New Orleans, Austin and Los Angeles, is a nationally recognized law firm with a nearly 40-year history of “Protecting What’s Right” for people, communities and businesses harmed by negligence. Baron & Budd’s size and resources enable the firm to take on large and complex cases. The firm represents individuals and government and business entities in areas as diverse as dangerous pharmaceuticals and medical devices, environmental contamination, the Gulf oil spill, financial fraud, overtime violations, deceptive advertising, automotive defects, trucking accidents, nursing home abuse, and asbestos-related illnesses such as mesothelioma.