Bradley Arant Boult Cummings

While it saw its origins in Birmingham, Alabama (where it is still the gold standard among that state's legal community), Bradley Arant Boult Cummings has since morphed into an increasingly sprawling dominator in the Southeast. Despite being a regional firm, Bradley Arant has taken on and triumphed over many firms of a much greater size and national stature. A full-service firm, with litigation encompassing a variety of practices, the firm has particularly made a mark in the product liability capacity.

In a prime example of the firm punching above its weight, Birmingham's Lindsey Boney has served as national counsel for Bayer since the first lawsuit was filed concerning the Xarelto drug, including participating in strategy development, fact investigation, company discovery, expert workups, bellwether pool case workups, and trial. A multi-office team composed of Huntsville's Kim Martin, Charlotte's Dana Lumsden, and Nashville's Lela Hollabaugh represent Avectus Healthcare Solutions, a hospital service provider, in six different class actions in North Carolina, Alabama and Tennessee challenging the hospitals' use of Avectus for these services on various grounds. Martin and Boney, along with Tripp Haston, provide national counsel for Wyeth, a Pfizer subsidiary, in a set of litigation involving claims of injury from the marketing of an anti-arrhythmic drug, Cordarone. Even though they never took Cordarone manufactured by Wyeth, plaintiffs are claiming injury and contending that Wyeth should be liable as the brand name innovator of this medication.