LAWYERS

Richard S. Lewis

1700 K Street, NW Suite 650
Washington, DC 20006
202.540.7200 ph
202.540.7201 fax
rlewis@hausfeldllp.com
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Richard S. Lewis is a partner at the firm. He has been appointed to serve as co-lead counsel in mass tort and product liability class action cases including In re StarLink Corn Products (N.D. Ill) (asserting claims by farmers for genetic modification contamination of the U.S. corn supply) and In re PPA (asserting claims by users of unsafe over-the-counter medicines). He has also been appointed to the MDL Steering Committee in In re Prempro Products Liability Litigation and In re Chinese Manufactured Drywall.

In addition, Mr. Lewis served as lead counsel in numerous actions to obtain medical monitoring relief for communities exposed to toxic chemicals from hazardous waste disposal practices or unsafe drugs. These include In re Diet Drug Litigation (Fen-Phen), which resulted in a $4 billion settlement providing medical monitoring in addition to individual personal injury awards, and Harman v. Lipari, a Superfund case that resulted in a settlement providing medical monitoring for thousands of residents who lived on or played near a landfill.  Mr. Lewis has litigated both individual and class childhood lead poisoning cases and he is presently lead counsel in a case against the lead pigment industry, City of Milwaukee v. NL Industries Inc. Mr. Lewis is also handling mass tort cases involving Vioxx, and environmental cases in India, South Africa, and Barbados.