Firm Bios

About The Firms

Thornton & Naumes LLP, Levy, Phillips & Konigsberg, LLP, and Waters & Kraus, LLP (collectively, the "Law Firms"), developed this Web site for general informational purposes. It is also as a source of help for families who have been affected by injured children or birth defects and reproductive injuries. We are particularly focused on parental exposure to hazardous chemicals at semiconductor chip manufacturing facilities, other toxic and occupational chemical exposures, powerful pharmaceuticals and the resulting birth defects and reproductive injuries.

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Thornton & Naumes LLP

Thornton & Naumes LLP is a Boston, Massachusetts based plaintiffs law firm with national reach and a focus on cases concerning serious health problems caused by toxic products and pharmaceutical drugs. Our practice includes children injured by exposure to lead-based paint and solvents and birth defects cause by semiconductor and toxic chemical exposure. Additionally, Thornton & Naumes is a leader in birth defects litigation involving semiconductor and toxic chemical exposure - successfully settling one of the first lawsuits in the country involving a "clean room" worker in the semiconductor chip manufacturing industry. Founded in 1978 by Michael Thornton and other groundbreaking pioneers of asbestos litigation, Thornton & Naumes is now the largest plaintiffs' law firm in New England representing victims injured by exposure to toxic and harmful products. Learn more about Thornton & Naumes LLP.

Levy Phillips & Konigsberg, LLP

Levy Phillips & Konigsberg, LLP is one of the nation's premier plaintiffs' law firms in the areas of toxic torts, product liability, personal injury, and medical malpractice, as well as fraud and discrimination law with a special focus on toxic exposures and birth defects litigation. In keeping with Levy Phillips & Konigsberg's commitment to upholding the rights of children, we have spearheaded litigation against the semiconductor industry to eliminate the use of ethylene glycol ethers, which have caused birth defects in the children of semiconductor workers and is a leading representative of children exposed to lead paint. For more than a generation, Levy Phillips & Konigsberg has worked to protect the rights of individuals and groups whose lives have been disrupted or cut short because of personal injury or wrongful death.

Levy Phillips & Konigsberg is a New York City-based law firm with a national reputation for representing plaintiffs in toxic exposure cases, and maintains offices in Manhattan and Lawrenceville, New Jersey. Learn more about Levy Phillips & Konigsberg, LLP.

Waters & Kraus, LLP

Waters & Kraus, LLP is a plaintiffs' law firm with a successful national practice, as well as international experience. Our plaintiffs' attorneys focus on complex civil litigation and personal injury/wrongful death cases, such as birth defects caused by semiconductor and toxic chemical exposure.

Our experience and record of success speaks for itself. Each case is overseen by a Waters & Kraus partner from strategy and preparation through trial. Each of our partners is an accomplished trial lawyer with extensive courtroom, appellate and/or project management experience. Most have won record-setting verdicts, and many have litigated precedent-setting cases in areas such as toxic tort and product liability.

Based in Dallas, Texas, with offices in California and Maryland, Waters & Kraus has litigated cases in jurisdictions across the United States on behalf of individuals from all 50 states, as well as foreign governments. Learn more about Waters & Kraus, LLP.