Baron & Budd, P.C.

Baron and Budd is a nationally recognized law firm with offices in Dallas, Austin, Baton Rouge and Los Angeles. The firm has provided contingency fee based legal representation for people harmed by corporate malfeasance for over thirty years.

Baron and Budd won one of the first lawsuits ever for a victim of asbestos exposure in the 1970's. Since then, the firm has actively represented other victi...
ms of asbestos exposure and even went all the way to the Supreme Court to protect the rights of individual asbestos patients, where the firm fought against a national asbestos settlement that would have limited the ability for future asbestos claimants to receive adequate compensation. Baron and Budd's president and managing shareholder, Russell Budd, was also instrumental in the creation of a $4 billion national settlement with Halliburton that established a trust fund for present and future asbestos claimants.

Today Baron and Budd has expanded into other areas as diverse as the Gulf Coast oil spill, drinking water contamination, Qui Tam and whistleblower litigation, California Proposition 65 cases, harmful pharmaceuticals and medical devices, Chinese drywall, commercial litigation, insurance fraud, securities fraud and numerous other consumer advocacy cases involving online or financial scams.

Baron and Budd has more than 60 attorneys and 200 staff that actively handles start to finish litigation for its clients.

The firm has a long history of precedent-setting cases and significant verdicts on behalf of clients, ranging from a $450 million national settlement with many of the nation’s top oil companies over MTBE water contamination to a $422 million settlement with Bank of America over overdraft fees to a $55 million asbestos cancer verdict for an El Paso mesothelioma patient and his family.

Baron and Budd has always prided itself on being at the forefront of litigation and has received many accolades for its work, including being selected to the National Law Journal’s prestigious Plaintiffs’ “Hot List” six times and being awarded the Trial Lawyer of the Year Award from the public interest legal organization Public Justice in 2006.

Baron and Budd also prides itself on giving back to the community and has donated generously to the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO), the International Mesothelioma Program (IMP) at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the Lung Cancer Alliance and other non-profit organizations. The firm has also underwritten two books about mesothelioma: CURE magazine’s Understanding Mesothelioma and the NCCN Patient Guidelines for Mesothelioma.

For more information about Baron and Budd call 1.866.844.4556, email us at info@baronbudd.com or visit our website at http://baronandbudd.com/.

Awards: Named to the National Law Journal's Plaintiffs' "Hot List" six times. Repeatedly selected as one of the country's premier law firms by the Legal 500. Shareholder Scott Summy has been selected to The Best Lawyers in America every year since 2006. 2006: Attorneys won the Trial Lawyers for Public Justice Award from the Public Justice Foundation. 2007: Russell Budd and Shareholder Burton LeBlanc won the American Association for Justice's Wiedemann Wysocki National Finance Council Award.

Languages Spoken: English