Baron and Budd is an recognized plaintiffs' firm dedicated to protecting what's right for consumers and public entities.
With offices in Dallas, Baton Rouge, Los Angeles, Austin and Miami, the firm is equipped to represent clients across the nation suffering from the negligent acts of businesses. The firm has 50 attorneys and more than 200 staff fighting for clients in mesothelioma cases, water contamination, Gulf oil spill, commercial litigation, environmental litigation, deceptive advertising and large-scale consumer fraud.
Baron and Budd was founded in the 1970s to support those exposed to asbestos. The firm was one of the first in the nation to successfully litigate an asbestos case. Although the firm continues today in its fight for mesothelioma and asbestos cancer victims, Baron and Budd has broadened its reach to take on a variety of cases.
The firm's lengthy history of success includes work on litigation that established billion-dollar bankruptcy trusts for asbestos claimants. A $4 billion settlement Baron and Budd attorneys reached with Halliburton is the largest asbestos trust fund in the world. Baron and Budd even won a at the United States Supreme Court that helped protect the rights of individual asbestos claimants to seek compensation.
Over the years Baron and Budd attorneys have given back to the community. The firm was a cornerstone donor of the International Mesothelioma Program (IMP) and financially supported the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) and Lung Cancer Alliance (LCA).
Baron and Budd has underwritten two mesothelioma books, CURE magazine's "Understanding Mesothelioma" and the National Comprehensive Cancer Network's "Guidelines for Patients: Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma." Russell Budd, the firm's president and managing shareholder, is on the board of the NCCN Foundation.