Richard D. Meadow

Rick Meadow is the National Mass Tort Leader and Director of Business Development for The Lanier Law Firm, providing clients with more than 30 years of seasoned experience in courtrooms across the U.S. Rick represents individuals who have been injured by dangerous pharmaceutical drugs, medical devices, asbestos, medical malpractice, defective products, construction defects, lead poisoning, and motor vehicles, as well as the negligence of premises owners and municipalities. A veteran of more than 25 cases successfully tried to verdict, Rick provides a rare level of courtroom experience. He has helped win three different cases that ranked among the largest verdicts in the nation by The National Law Journal.

Mr. Meadow also has extensive experience in the representation of large national insurance companies as an insurance defense attorney. This experience provides a 360-degree perspective of the practice of tort law in the United States.

Mr. Meadow was part of the trial team that obtained plaintiffs' verdicts in the Vioxx litigation in excess of $300 million. He has also obtained jury awards of over $53 million and $47 million for his clients. He has settled millions of dollars in claims and argued appeals before the New York and New Jersey Appellate Divisions. 

In 2017, Rick Meadow was named to the Plaintiffs' Executive Committee in the federal multidistrict litigation against Johnson & Johnson over ovarian cancer claims involving the company’s talcum powder products. Mr. Meadow joins three other attorneys appointed to the committee by U.S. District Judge Freda L. Wolfson of the U.S. District Court of New Jersey. As a member of the committee, Mr. Meadow will continue to investigate and develop the claims while also overseeing the coordination, preparation, and presentation of the cases. The lawsuits allege that for decades Johnson & Johnson has sold and marketed talc-based hygiene products such as Johnson’s Baby Powder despite being aware of and concealing scientific evidence linking those products to ovarian cancer.

Mr. Meadow is licensed to practice law in Texas, New York State, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, numerous Federal Courts and is admitted to the Bar of the United States Supreme Court.