Mark Lanier
Mark Lanier, an attorney, author, teacher, pastor, and expert story teller, is no stranger to public platform. Mark has garnered international acclaim as one of the finest trial attorneys in the United States since founding The Lanier Law Firm in 1990, with offices in Houston, New York, and Los Angeles supporting his work for clients across the country.
Mark has extensive and varied courtroom experience, including: A federal jury in Dallas voted in favor of his clients in a products liability case involving defective hip implants against defendant DePuy Orthopaedics Inc., a subsidiary of health care behemoth Johnson & Johnson, in March 2016. In April 2014, Mark won another high-profile case against Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. and Eli Lilly & Co. over the diabetic medicine Actos.
Mark has demonstrated time and time again during his career that he is not one to slow down or rest on his recent successes. He made a big impact in the realm of courtroom litigation when he won a then-record verdict for a minor oil company in a business fraud case against one of the country's largest oil companies in early 1993. Ernst v. Merck, the nation's first trial over the painkiller Vioxx, set the precedent for similar cases across the country. Mark followed up his world-record Vioxx verdict with two more significant Vioxx trial victories. In a fraudulent promotion action against one of the world's major distributors of artificial sweeteners, he achieved a precedent-setting settlement for a national sugar association trade group and some of the largest U.S. sugar manufacturers. He was also responsible for a large settlement for syringe producer Retractable Technologies in an antitrust dispute against Becton Dickinson & Company, which was the inspiration for the Chris Evans film "Puncture." His verdict on behalf of 21 asbestos plaintiffs is one of the greatest asbestos liability awards ever made in the United States. In a dispute over unpaid bonuses relating to the sale of an Ingersoll Rand subsidiary, Mark also achieved a settlement for 130 Ingersoll Rand Plc employees.
Mark is constantly recognized by his colleagues and the media as one of the country's top legal minds, having been named Trial Lawyer of the Year by The National Trial Lawyers and The Trial Lawyer magazine, as well as being named to the Lawdragon Top 500. He received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Association of Justice in 2015. "One of America's premier civil trial lawyers," according to the New York Times. He has been designated one of the nation's Top 10 Trial Attorneys on two occasions, as well as one of the 100 Most Influential Lawyers in America, by the National Law Journal. Mark and The Lanier Law Firm were also named to the annual Plaintiff's Hot List by the same publication. Mark has also received the prestigious Clarence Darrow Award. He has been recognized as a national leader in product liability and mass tort lawsuits by Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business on several occasions. Mark has been recognized to The Best Lawyers in America list for over a decade, and he was previously voted the Top Class Action Attorney in America in 2013. He was also named Houston's 2016 Lawyer of the Year for Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions by the same publication. The Lanier Law Firm has also been recognized to S. News & World Report's annual list of Best Law Firms on numerous occasions.
Mark has also been named to Benchmark Litigation's Litigation Stars list, as well as The Trial Lawyer magazine's America's 100 Most Influential Trial Lawyers list. Mark has received numerous distinctions from his legal peers in Texas, in addition to national recognition. Since its inception in 2003, he has been named to the annual Texas Super Lawyers list, including being named one of the Top 10 Attorneys in Texas, in a state-wide attorney survey published in Texas Monthly magazine. Mark has been named one of the state's Top 5 "Go To" Personal Injury Plaintiff Attorneys three times, as well as the Top "Go To" Personal Injury Attorney in Texas.
He received the Ronald D. Secrest Outstanding Trial Lawyer Award from the Texas Bar Foundation in 2015. For more than a decade, he has been recognized to Texas Best Lawyers magazine's yearly list. Mark was also named to the Verdict Search/Texas Lawyer Top 50 Verdicts of 2012 list. He was also named one of the Top 25 Attorneys of the Last Quarter Century by Texas Lawyer, and The Lanier Law Firm was selected the 2015 Litigation Department of the Year by Texas Lawyer.
Office: The Lanier Law Firm
Address: 6810 FM 1960, Houston, TX 77069, USA
Phone: 713-659-5200
Mail: wml@lanierlawfirm.com
