The Tort Report

Adam Ramirez is Managing Editor of The Tort Report. A former editor at Bloomberg Law, Thomson Reuters, and Forbes, he clerked for a federal judge for two years after law school.

Bibi Fell is the founder of Fell Law in San Diego and a founding partner of Athea Trial Lawyers, a nationwide plaintiff's firm composed of six prominent women trial lawyers. She is the 2026 President of the San Diego Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates and teaches Advanced Trial Advocacy at the University of San Diego School of Law.

Brian Morgan-Heit is co-founder of Cedar Employment Law, an employee-side law firm in Southern California.

Casey Geiger is a trial attorney and founder of Geiger Legal Group where he focuses on helping people rebuild their lives by telling their stories. Under his leadership, he has grown his firm to a team of 7 attorneys and more than 30 staff transforming GLG into a premier personal injury trial firm dedicated to catastrophic injury and wrongful death litigation. Casey takes a trial-first approach to every case grounded in visual storytelling and cohesive case narratives that carry from pre-suit strategy through verdict. He has secured millions annually in results for his clients, including a $15.2 million verdict in Cobb County - one of the largest personal injury verdicts in Georgia that does not involve surgery or death. Casey earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Denver's Sturm College of Law and holds a Bachelor in Business Administration from Mercer University.

Chris Brown is a trial attorney and co-owner of Geiger Legal Group, where he focuses on catastrophic injury, medical malpractice, and wrongful death litigation across Georgia and Tennessee. Licensed in Georgia, Tennessee, and Colorado, Chris brings a rare dual perspective to plaintiff work; having spent over a decade on the defense side before dedicating his practice to representing seriously injured people. That background sharpens every case he touches, from pre-suit strategy through verdict. Chris was lead counsel on Geiger Legal Group's recent $15.2 million verdict in Cobb County - a result that reflects the firm's commitment to taking hard cases to trial and seeing them through. Before joining Geiger Legal Group, Chris served as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Denver's Sturm College of Law, where he taught advanced trial practice and coached a national trial team. He holds a JD from the University of Denver's Sturm College of Law and a BS from the University of the South.

Christian DeTrude is the Founding VP of Sales at Eve Legal.

Christopher Earley is the founder and CEO of Earley Law Group in Boston, Massachusetts. He writes columns for the American Bar Association, Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, and Business of Law Insider, and hosts The Earley Show, a podcast for entrepreneurial attorneys.

Christopher P. Anderson is a Trial Attorney at Anderson Trial Lawyers with over 30 years of experience fighting to make the entire Eastern Connecticut community a safer, better place to live and work. Since joining the family firm in 1994, Chris has handled all aspects of litigation involving personal injury, wrongful death, and products liability. A committed advocate for the civil jury system, he serves on the Board of Governors of the Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association and is a member of the American Association for Justice. Chris earned his law degree from Vermont Law and Graduate School and is licensed to practice in the State of Connecticut and the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut.

Farnaz Ghaffari is the founder of Ghaffari Law Firm in Georgia and the Mehr Enforcement Project.

Jamie Eggertsen is the Head of Marketing Strategy & Ops at Eve.

Janet Choi is the Head of Content at Eve.

Jay Madheswaran is the founder and CEO of Eve.

Jenn Gore founded Atlanta Personal Injury Law Group, built it into an Inc. 5000 honoree, and merged it into Sweet James. She now coaches personal injury owners at Evergreen Business Coaching.

Jeremy Thurman is a partner and trial lawyer at McIntyre Law in Oklahoma City, where he handles catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases.

John H. Fisher is the founder of The New York Injury & Malpractice Law Firm in Kingston, New York, focusing exclusively on catastrophic injury and birth injury cases.

Manny Starr is the Managing Partner of Frontier Law Center, a California-based plaintiff-side employment law firm recognized for its pioneering use of artificial intelligence. Since the “ChatGPT lightbulb moment” in 2022, Manny has been at the forefront of integrating AI into the core operations of his practice—not as a novelty, but as a foundational tool to improve access to justice, streamline litigation, and elevate the quality of legal services. Under his leadership, Frontier Law Center has reimagined how a law firm can operate by embedding AI into day-to-day legal work—from case evaluation to litigation strategy—while maintaining a strong commitment to ethical deployment and human oversight. Manny’s work has been featured in multiple publications covering the intersection of law and technology, and his firm was a 2025 finalist for Law.com’s Best Use of Artificial Intelligence award, sharing the spotlight with firms like Baker McKenzie, King & Spalding, and Reed Smith. His approach demonstrates that cutting-edge legal tech isn’t just for BigLaw—it’s a powerful equalizer for lean, impact-driven firms ready to lead the next generation of legal practice.

Megan T. Burns is the managing partner at Mirador Law in the San Francisco Bay Area. She spent nearly a decade as a public defender in San Francisco before moving into plaintiff personal injury work.

Megan Thomas is the founder of Megan Thomas Law in Syracuse, New York, where she represents employees in sexual harassment, discrimination, and retaliation cases.

Meredith S. Hinton is a Personal Injury Attorney at Ricci Law Firm, where over the past two decades she has recovered millions for injured clients across North Carolina. Focusing on car, motorcycle, and truck accidents and complex personal injury litigation, Meredith is an aggressive advocate for her clients, going above and beyond to give each client the personalized attention and counsel they deserve. She was recently a key part of the trial team that secured a landmark $101 million verdict, and is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates. She earned her law degree at Campbell University School of Law and is licensed to practice in North Carolina.

Michael L. Saile, Jr. is a founder and the Managing Partner of Cordisco & Saile LLC, a personal injury firm in the Philadelphia area focusing on traumatic brain injury and catastrophic injury cases.

Nate Hendricks is the founder and legal operations consultant at LeglX.

Noble McIntyre, senior partner and owner of McIntyre Law in Oklahoma City, is the former President of the Oklahoma Association for Justice.

R. Mack Babcock is the founder of Babcock Tucker in Denver, Colorado, where he focuses exclusively on workers' compensation and personal injury. A Marine Corps veteran and past president of the Workers' Injury Law and Advocacy Group, he has spent nearly two decades helping reshape Colorado workers' compensation law through legislative advocacy.

Sean Claggett is the founder of Claggett & Sykes Trial Lawyers and co-author of JuryBall: The Big Data Revolution Is Here.

Seth Price is the founder of Price Benowitz LLP and BluShark Digital. He sold BluShark to Herringbone Digital in January 2026 and serves on Herringbone's board.

Sharif L. Gray is partner and trial lawyer at Gray Broughton Injury Law with an impressive record of securing real justice for his clients, including several multi-million-dollar verdicts. His commitment and mindset have defined his career—when the pressure spikes, he moves toward trial, not away from it. Sharif graduated valedictorian and as a distinguished military graduate from the Virginia Military Institute, received his law degree from the University of Virginia, earned his Masters of Law degree in Trial Advocacy from the Temple University Beasley School of Law, and graduated from the Gerry Spence Method. He also hosts the Courtroom Stories & Tactics podcast and founded Voir Dire to Verdict, an annual trial skills conference for lawyers who try cases.

Steve Duke is an attorney at Cofman Townsley in St. Louis, Missouri, and is a member of the Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys and the St. Louis Metropolitan Bar Association.

Tad Thomas is a Past President of the American Association for Justice and the founder of Thomas Law Offices, which represents plaintiffs across five states.

Todd Stanley is the founder of TransformX Legal, a fractional C-suite practice serving plaintiff law firms.

Tony Elman is the lead trial attorney at Elman Joseph Samples Law Group in Chicago. He received the Cook County Jury Verdict Reporter's Trial Lawyer Excellence Award in 2019 for the most reported jury trials as a plaintiff's attorney in the publication's 30-year history.