Baron & Budd Attorneys Recognized by The National Law Journal 2024 Elite Trial Lawyers
May 17 2024 - 5:30PM
Business Wire
President and Managing Shareholder Russell Budd received the
Lifetime Achievement award for his decades long career that has
made an indelible mark on the community, his clients, and the legal
profession.
Baron & Budd is proud to share that the firm and multiple
attorneys have been recognized by The National Law Journal for the
2024 Elite Trial Lawyers awards. President and Managing Shareholder
Russell Budd was honored with the Lifetime Achievement award while
attorneys Elizabeth Smiley and Noah Rich were awarded the Rising
Stars of the Plaintiffs Bar.
The firm is also a finalist in three categories: Consumer
Protection, Environmental Protection, and Pharmaceutical
Litigation. The winners in these categories will be announced at an
awards dinner on July 11, 2024, in New York.
“I am deeply honored to receive this recognition from the
National Law Journal and their acknowledgment of the years of hard
work and dedication it takes to obtain justice for our clients,”
said Budd. “It has always been our mission to protect individuals
and communities from the harm caused by major corporations and
remain steadfast in our commitment of ‘Protecting What’s
Right.’”
Budd received the Lifetime Achievement award for the
accomplishments in his career spanning more than four decades. He
has been a trailblazer for the entirety of his career and a
mainstay of the plaintiff’s bar representing victims of corporate
wrongdoing across the nation. Throughout his career, he has played
a major role in many of the largest cases ever to be litigated in
the United States court system. Currently, Budd is a key player in
the ongoing nationwide opioid litigation and insulin pricing
litigation.
Budd’s passion for helping people extends outside the courtroom.
In 2007, Budd and his wife, Dorothy, founded and endowed The Budd
Center for Involving Communities in Education, housed within
Southern Methodist University’s Simmons School of Education and
Human Development, and they remain actively involved in the
Center’s mission to improve under-resourced schools in Dallas
through community-driven collaboration. The Budds also established
The Budd Innocence Center in 2017 at the University of Texas School
of Law in Austin to improve the criminal justice system with the
goal of helping prevent injustice while providing assistance to
innocent Texas prisoners.
Baron & Budd attorneys Elizabeth Smiley and Noah Rich
received the Rising Stars of the Plaintiffs Bar award for
demonstrating their litigation prowess, service to the community,
and impact on their firm. Smiley works in the class action practice
at Baron & Budd and plays an important role as a member of the
trial team in the nationwide opioid litigation. Rich works for the
qui tam practice which oversaw the largest whistleblower settlement
in which the government intervened to enforce the non-payment of
customs duties.
Since 2015, ALM’s Elite Trial Lawyers has recognized U.S. based
law firms that have performed exemplary and cutting-edge work on
behalf of plaintiffs. The methodology used to determine the winners
is based on an evaluation of nominations by the senior leaders
across the newsroom and external advisers. Only a small percentage
of submissions are selected as finalists and even fewer as
winners.
About Baron & Budd, P.C.
With more than 40 years of experience, Baron & Budd has the
expertise and resources to handle complex litigation throughout the
United States. As a law firm that takes pride in remaining at the
forefront of litigation, Baron & Budd has spearheaded many
significant cases for hundreds of public entities and tens of
thousands of individuals. Since the firm was founded in 1977, Baron
& Budd has achieved substantial national acclaim for its work
on cutting-edge litigation, trying hundreds of cases to verdict and
settling tens of thousands of cases in areas of litigation as
diverse and significant as dangerous and highly addictive
pharmaceuticals, defective medical devices, asbestos and
mesothelioma, wildfires, environmental contamination, fraudulent
banking practices, e-cigarettes, motor vehicles, federal
whistleblower cases, and other consumer fraud issues.
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