US: Legally Speaking: The food poisoning lawyer - (Southeast Texas Record)
December 4, 2007 – 7:43 pmhttp://www.setexasrecord.com/arguments/contentview.asp?c=204264
If you’re still snacking on Thanksgiving leftovers, this column just may jumpstart your diet plans.
And while for many people the very thought of going to a lawyer can cause stomachs to churn, if your stomach is churning for other reasons, then the lawyer you need to see is Bill Marler.
Who is Bill Marler? He’s simply the preeminent lawyer in the country in a rather specialized practice area - representing victims of food poisoning.
The story says that after starting out in a defense firm, Marler went to a small plaintiff’s firm, where he landed one of the first cases in the 1993 Jack in the Box E.coli outbreak. Marler recovered a $15.6 million settlement on behalf of Brianne Kilner, the most seriously injured of the Jack in the Box victims; after that success, he says, “I went from one client to 300 clients within a few weeks.”
Since 1993, Marler has been […]
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