Phil Federico is a partner at Baird Mandalas Brockstedt & Federico where he helps lead the Mass Tort / Class Action and Environmental Law practices, transitioning into these areas after beginning his career as a medical malpractice litigator. Phil has led and been involved in historic and groundbreaking litigation with verdicts and settlements exceeding one billion dollars. In recent years, Phil and his team have focused on environmental cases involving contaminated groundwater and air pollution. In 2017, Phil became co-lead counsel in a landmark environmental case against chicken processing giant Mountaire. For close to two decades, the company had violated its permits by disposing of wastewater containing excessive nitrates, causing health problems and property damage for the community of Millsboro, Delaware. Phil led the negotiation with Mountaire and achieved a settlement valued at $205 million. Following that landmark case, Phil has continued his work representing communities that have been harmed by polluters. He is co-lead counsel representing a putative class of hundreds of thousands of residents in North Carolina and South Carolina who are being negatively affected by harmful air and water emissions released by New-Indy Catawba paper mill.??Alongside his team, he is representing hundreds of veterans who lived and served at Camp Lejeune, the United States Marine Corps Base Camp in Jacksonville, North Carolina that is now known to be the site of an environmental and public health disaster. The community of Elkton, Maryland is also benefiting from his legal acumen as he leads the litigation against W.L Gore and Associates’ Cherry Hill plant for contaminating the water supply with dangerous perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). Finally, Phil’s team is involved in litigation involving Aqueous Film Forming Foam (AFFF), a foam used for firefighting that contains PFAS and has been linked to cancer. In addition to environmental cases, Phil also has deep experience representing governmental entities in litigation. In 2017, Phil formed a consortium of attorneys and law firms to take on the opioid industry and today represents more than 40 cities and counties. This includes more Florida public entities than any other group, and the second largest number of South Carolina public entities. He is also leading a consortium of attorneys and law firms in the JUUL litigation, which is based on JUUL’s intentional and deceptive marketing of its vaping device to teenagers and young adults. Phil represents 60 school boards from across the country in their fight for justice. Most recently, Phil is representing school boards in their litigation against social media platforms for their role in the youth mental health crisis. Finally, Phil has extensive experience in personal injury, sexual abuse and misconduct, and healthcare. Phil is currently serving as a member of the Survivors Advisory Board dedicated to helping survivors of institutional sexual abuse find justice and healing. In 2010, he served as co-lead counsel in the litigation against pedophile pediatrician Earl Bradley, which resulted in a $123 million settlement. In 2016, he served as counsel in a $190 million class action settlement with The Johns Hopkins Hospital arising out of the conduct of Nikita Levy, M.D., an obstetrician gynecologist who surreptitiously videotaped his patients during gynecologic examinations. He is also representing plaintiffs in the StarPower lawsuit that involves the alleged surreptitious photographing and recording of a group of 400 competitive dancers, mostly minors, in various stages of undress in their changing area. Additionally, he is leading a class action involving 3,700 patients who were allegedly wrongfully exposed to HIV and hepatitis at a surgical center in New Jersey as a result of the doctors and staff failing to follow appropriate sterilization protocols and infection protection guidelines.

homas P. Feher, a trial lawyer since 1990, has successfully litigated hundreds of cases on behalf of clients ranging from individuals to large businesses and public entities, focusing on business and employment disputes but also embracing other areas of general business and litigation practice. Having a thorough knowledge of business strategies and litigation experience, Mr. Feher understands and resolves issues through the lens of a businessperson's perspective and goals. His cases and matters have included: employment consulting and compliance; simple to complex employment disputes (employment discrimination, retaliation sexual harassment, labor, wage and hour); corporate and partnership disputes; real estate disputes; construction litigation; probate and trust litigation; commercial litigation; insurance and related disputes including litigation and coverage analysis; defense of public entities including civil rights and employment claims; professional liability defense and healthcare related litigation; agriculture litigation. Mr. Feher has been a speaker at seminars on a variety of topics in employment law, real estate and professional liability and has acted as an arbitrator in fee disputes. He is AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell, the highest designation.

Robert I. Feinberg has been a very well known personal injury attorney in Massachusetts for more than 35 years. He has won numerous awards and recognitions. Mr. Feinberg has testified before the Massachusetts Joint House/Senate Insurance Committee on insurance coverage. He has also lectured more than ten times to other attorneys on the handling personal injury cases, especially concerning trial practice. His court pleadings have been used as a teaching tool for members of the American Association of Justice. Attorney Feinberg is a 25-year member of the Board of Governors of the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys. He has authored more than three hundred blogs and articles on trial practice, evidence, and insurance law, many of which are videos and on this website.

After graduating from LaSalle University where he received a B.A. in Mathematics, Mr. Feinberg then worked for eight years in the actuarial field assisting in the management of defined benefit pension plans. In 1991, he then returned to school, Temple University School of Law, to receive his J.D.