 Richard S. Lewis Richard Lewis, a Partner at the Firm, joined Cohen Milstein in 1987 and is the head of the Unsafe Drugs & Environmental Health Threats practice group, for both domestic and international matters.
He has been appointed to serve as co-lead counsel in mass tort and class action cases including In re StarLink Corn Products (N.D. Ill) (settlement of $110 million) and In re PPA (asserting claims by users of unsafe over-the-counter medicines). He has also been appointed to the MDL Steering Committee in In re Prempro Products Liability Litigation (E.D. Ark.).
In addition, Mr. Lewis served as lead counsel in numerous actions to obtain medical monitoring relief for communities exposed to toxic chemicals from hazardous waste disposal practices or unsafe drugs. These include In re Diet Drug Litigation (Fen-Phen) (E.D. Pa), which resulted in a $4 billion settlement providing medical monitoring in addition to individual personal injury awards in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, and Harman v. Lipari, a Superfund case that resulted in a settlement providing medical monitoring for thousands of residents who lived on or played near a landfill. He has litigated both individual and class childhood lead poisoning cases and he is presently lead counsel in a case against the lead pigment industry, City of Milwaukee v. NL Industries Inc. Mr. Lewis is also handling mass tort cases involving Vioxx, Celebrex, Bextra and Hormone Therapy, and environmental cases in India and Zambia.
Mr. Lewis graduated from Tufts University with a B.A. in English (cum laude, 1976), and earned his Master's in Public Health degree from the University of Michigan (1981) and his law degree from the University of Pennsylvania (J.D., cum laude, 1986). He was Comments Editor for the University of Pennsylvania Law Review (1985-86) and authored the Comment, O.C.A.W. v. American Cyanamid: The Shrinking of the Occupational Safety and Health Act, U. Pa. L. Rev. (July, 1985). After law school, he was a law clerk for the Honorable Stanley S. Brotman, U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey.
Mr. Lewis is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia.
Contact: rlewis@cmht.com Practice Areas:
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