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Jennifer L. Lawrence

Jennifer L. Lawrence

Distinguished Lawyer

Medical Malpractice Law

535 Madison Ave suite 500, Covington, KY 41011, USA

Jennifer L. Lawrence is an AV rated attorney and a partner of LBL. Ms. Lawrence has dedicated her career to representing individuals and their families who have been injured due to the negligence of others. She has focused her career on helping those injured through medical malpractice, products liability, mass torts, personal injury, and wrongful death. Ms. Lawrence strives to help families obtain compensation for injuries, to discover the truth behind what happened, and to improve the quality of the care. She has litigated, tried, and successfully resolved hundreds of cases involving brain injury, infection, cancer, surgical mishaps, spinal cord injury, psychologic injury, and death for clients of all ages, from newborns to adults. Ms. Lawrence has argued cases before the Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court in Ohio and Kentucky. Most recently, Ms. Lawrence successfully argued in a complex products liability case involving injuries from a cardiac catheter that jurisdiction was appropriate in Kentucky courts and Kentucky law applied in the case of Russell v. Johnson & Johnson, et al. Ms. Lawrence graduated with a B.A. from The Ohio State University and earned her law degree from Salmon P. Chase College of Law. Ms. Lawrence is licensed to practice law in Ohio and Kentucky on a state and federal level. She is also licensed to practice in the United States Supreme Court. She has represented clients throughout the country against the manufacturers of the da Vinci Surgical Robot, Essure Birth Control, Testosterone, Xarelto, Cardiac Catheters, IVC Filters and CPAP sleep devices. She is a member of the American Association of Justice (AAJ) and the current Co-Chair of the Medical Negligence Litigation Group, a national organization of trial lawyers representing those injured in the healthcare setting. She has previously served as a board member of the Birth Trauma Litigation Group and as Co-Chair of the daVinci Robotic Litigation group within AAJ. She is a member of the Kentucky Justice Association, serving as District Vice President; and is also a member of the Kentucky Bar Association, the Northern Kentucky Bar Association, and the Cincinnati Bar Association. Ms. Lawrence is a member of the Salmon P. Chase American Inn of Court serving as a board member. She has previously served by appointment from the Ohio Supreme Court on the Ohio CLE Commission and on the Kentucky Supreme Court’s Committee on the Admission to the Bar. Ms. Lawrence has had the honor of being appointed by Governor Andy Beshear as a Special Justice to the Kentucky Supreme Court. Ms. Lawrence has spoken throughout the country on topics pertaining to medical malpractice, personal injury, wrongful death and products liability. She has been recognized by her peers as a Top 50 SuperLawyer and a Top 25 Women SuperLawyer in Kentucky. Ms. Lawrence has been active within her community serving as past board members of the Children’s Law Center and the Kenton County Library Foundation. Ms. Lawrence currently serves as a board member of the Legal Aid of the Bluegrass and a board member of Lawyers Mutual Insurance Company. She has served as a volunteer for moot court competitions, previously as an Adjunct Professor at Salmon P. Chase College of Law as well as serving as a volunteer for the activities involving her children. She practices law with her husband, Rob Lewis and has spent her life in the Greater Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky area. Jennifer Lawrence is the daughter of Richard D. Lawrence. Richard D. Lawrence was a co-founder of Gustin & Lawrence LPA, which later became Lawrence, Beirne & Lewis. The firm has been in practice for over 45 years.

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Joaquin Madry

Joaquin Madry

Distinguished Lawyer

Medical Malpractice Law

750 E Main St suite 810, Stamford, CT 06902, USA

Joaquin Madry has significant experience litigating major catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases in federal and state court. He has tried numerous cases to verdict and has recovered more than $150 million for his clients. Joaquin has built an extensive record serving individuals and families who received substandard medical care or who were the victims of negligence.

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John Patrick Beatty

Medical Malpractice Law

600, 217 Broadway, New York, NY 10007, USA

[email protected] Trial attorney John Beatty limits his practice to a small number of clients and to significant medical malpractice and negligence matters, including construction accidents, burn injury cases, motor vehicle accidents, premises liability cases and defective products cases. Since starting his own firm in 2019 John has already helped recover nearly $15 million dollars for injured New York families in verdicts and settlements.* In a 2020 settlement prior to filing suit John helped recover over $10,000,000.00 for a young girl scalded in a hair salon. Whenever you call BEATTY LAW, you will get John himself on the phone. Not an associate or paralegal. John’s experiences before becoming an attorney as a construction laborer and a NYPD supervisor give him a unique perspective and skills to investigate difficult cases and achieve justice for our clients. John has been called a “Matador in the Courtroom”, and “Fierce”, “deadly”, and “elegant” by his jurors. John’s dedication to serving clients and helping them achieve the justice they deserve is legendary. Many clients have become like family. Notably, John has multiple seven figure verdicts and settlements during trial for unwitnessed slip and falls. In each case the injured party had a previous injury to their leg or feet. In each case the defendants had refused to settle the case, arguing at trial that the victim was already badly injured. John has been featured in the New York Law Journal and New York Verdicts and Settlements and in the press related to construction worker safety. John earned one of the highest premises liability verdicts in New York State in 2016, and has been recognized repeatedly for helping litigate some of New York State’s highest verdicts and settlements through 2020. As a police supervisor John oversaw hundreds of vehicle accident preliminary investigations, including those involving fatal pedestrian collisions. John has proven time and time again that eyewitness accounts can be disproved by irrefutable evidence, such as videotape, often despite a guilty motorist’s claim that vehicle accidents were the fault of the deceased. John’s investigative skills have also uncovered multiple instances of corporate cover-ups, falsification of official accident and incident reports, and other wrong-doing. Achieving justice for innocent, injured victims –especially those who cannot speak for themselves–motivates John to look harder, dig deeper, and not accept assurances that everything was done properly, safely, as required by law or “by the book.” Coming from a large police family, John worked his way through college first as a construction laborer in Local Union No. 79 –on construction and building projects here in New York City. The grandson of a Union Sandhog, treasurer of Local 47, John has been around the construction industry for decades. John graduated magna cum laude from the City University of New York, received his Masters from Harvard, and his law degree from Fordham Law School, where he graduated with honors. John is admitted to practice law in state and federal courts in New York and Massachusetts. John is also proud to be trial counsel to reputable and well respected law firms in NYC. *Recoveries include verdicts and settlements as Trial Counsel and annuity payments to injured parties. Areas of Practice Significant medical malpractice and negligence matters, including construction accidents, burn injury cases, motor vehicle accidents, premises liability cases and defective products cases Honors, Awards and Achievements Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Million Dollar Advocates Recognized as a Top 25 Brain Injury Attorney, New York State National Board of Trial Advocates, Trial College Fellow New York State Trial Lawyers Association, Elected Board Member (Former) NYPD Honor Legion, Member Recognized as an NYPD Community Police officer of the Year by Police Commissioner Nat’l Assoc of Distinction Counsel, Fellow Recognized by Best Attorneys of America Lectures and Writings Adjunct Professor of Trial Advocacy, Fordham University Law School Disclaimer: Past results are not an express or implied prediction of future success, and should not be construed as such. Past results cannot guarantee future performance or case outcome. Any result in a single case is not meant to create an expectation, promise, guarantee or prediction of a similar result in a future case. Each case has many different factors, including different facts and different applications of law. Verdicts may be reduced by comparative fault, contributory negligence or following appeal. Results will always differ on a case-by-case basis.

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John Simmons

Medical Malpractice Law

1711 Pickens St, Columbia, SC 29201, USA

Mr. Simmons' practice focuses on catastrophic personal injury, wrongful death, products and pharmaceutical liability, premises liability, medical malpractice and white collar criminal defense. In 1992, Mr. Simmons served as the youngest Presidentially-appointed United States Attorney in the country, having been named to the post by President George Bush. As United States Attorney, Mr. Simmons directed the federal office for the District of South Carolina, which includes the entire state. After serving as United States Attorney, Mr. Simmons was the Chief of the State Grand Jury in the South Carolina Attorney General's Office. Prior to becoming United States Attorney, Mr. Simmons was an assistant United States Attorney in charge of prosecutions involving environmental and white collar crimes. Mr. Simmons was appointed by the Governor of South Carolina to serve on the South Carolina Commission on Ethics Reform, and has served on the South Carolina Ethics Commission. On a number of occasions, he has been selected by federal district court judges here in South Carolina to serve on the magistrate judge selection committee. Mr. Simmons has also written and lectured frequently in numerous areas of law, including serving as co-author of Environmental Crimes and Corporate Liability, published by the South Carolina Bar. In the process of achieving a distinguished academic record at the University Of South Carolina School Of Law, Mr. Simmons was a member of the Law Review, the Order of the Coif and Order of Wig and Robe. Following law school, he served as law clerk for the Honorable William W. Wilkins, Jr., formerly Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.

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John Toth

John Toth

Member

Medical Malpractice Law

400 Galleria Officentre, Suite 500, Southfield, MI 48034

John M. Toth has more than 37 years of experience in the defense of medical, podiatric and dental malpractice claims. During his professional career, John has successfully tried over 100 cases to a jury verdict. John’s practice focuses on defending matters in litigation involving the professional liability of physicians, podiatrists, dentists and hospitals. He also handles ski area/premise liability matters and he is a member of the Association of Ski Defense Attorneys.

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