BEST LAWYERS® 2022
Nicholas A. DiCello has been recognized by Best Lawyers® 2022 in the area of Civil Rights Law, Medical Malpractice and Personal Injury Litigation. He focuses his practice on representing victims of medical malpractice and other types of professional misconduct, including accounting and legal malpractice, claims against insurance companies and insurance agents and law enforcement misconduct. One of attorney DiCello’s notable cases was reaching a $4.58 million wrongful death jury verdict involving the death of a mother who was sent home from the emergency room with a migraine diagnosis and died within 24 hours from untreated brain swelling. Recently Nick resolved an in-custody jail death case for $2.6 million.
Stuart E. Scott has been recognized by Best Lawyers® 2022 in the areas of Consumer Protection Law, Mass Tort Litigation, Medical Malpractice Law and Personal Injury Litigation. Attorney Scott represents individuals and families who have been catastrophically injured or killed as a result of negligence, medical malpractice, dangerous products or defective drugs. One of his notable cases was reaching a $28 million verdict alongside partners Jeremy A. Tor and Peter H. Weinberger in a wrongful death case in 2017.
William “Bill” Hawal has been recognized by Best Lawyers® 2022 in the areas of Medical Malpractice Law and Personal Injury Litigation. Attorney Hawal is involved in litigating a wide variety of complex matters involving medical misdiagnoses, medical procedures, defective medical devices and drugs, civil rights, legal malpractice and injuries due to defective industrial and consumer products. One of his notable cases was reaching a $5.6 million medical malpractice verdict alongside partner Stuart E. Scott which they obtained on behalf of a client who was paralyzed from a misdiagnosed spinal abscess caused by MRSA.
Dennis R. Lansdowne has been recognized by Best Lawyers® 2022 in the areas of Medical Malpractice Law and Personal Injury Litigation. Attorney Lansdowne has represented individuals in catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases as well as large corporations. One of his notable cases was reaching an $8.2 million verdict in a medical malpractice case for a man who spent 10 hours in the Emergency Room before it was recognized that he had spinal cord compression.
Jeremy A. Tor has been recognized by Best Lawyers® 2022 in the area of Civil Rights Law. Tor handles a wide variety of cases in state and federal courts, including civil rights, wrongful death, professional malpractice (such as medical malpractice), motor vehicle crashes and premises liability. He has litigated civil rights cases all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court and has obtained significant seven-figure results on behalf of civil rights victims.
Peter H. Weinberger has been recognized by Best Lawyers® 2022 in the areas of Mass Tort Litigation, Class Actions, Medical Malpractice Law and Personal Injury Litigation. Attorney Weinberger handles a wide variety of complex injury and wrongful death cases caused by medical malpractice, defective products and motor vehicle accidents. One of his notable achievements has been his appointment as Plaintiff’s co-liaison counsel in the National Prescription Opiate Multidistrict Litigation case in the Northern District of Ohio Federal Court representing cities, counties, hospital groups and third-party payers against the manufacturers and distributors of opiate medications such as OxyContin and hydrocodone.