Bailey Glasser partners Brian A. Glasser, Katherine E. Charonko, Joshua Hammack, James Kauffman, Patricia Mulvoy Kipnis, Jonathan Marshall, D. Todd Mathews, Michael Murphy, and David L. Selby II were named to the 2025 Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Consumer Lawyers list. 

Brian A. Glasser is a founding partner of the firm and was recognized by Lawdragon in 2025 (and 2024) as a "Top 500 Litigator in America" as well as Forbes Media naming him one of its Top 200 Lawyers in 2024. Brian is a fearless litigator who fights for his clients including hundreds of survivors of sexual abuse across the country. In the two years, Brian has won battles against MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell to the tune of $5 million related to an election fraud-related contest; Johnson & Johnson for trying to bury 38,000 asbestos-related cancer claims in bankruptcy court; Monsanto related to Roundup (with a settlement after four days of trial); and 3M related to claims by veterans harmed by defective military earplugs.  

Katherine E. Charonko is a litigator and head of the firm’s sophisticated and cutting-edge ESI group where she oversees e-discovery in complex disputes involving billions of documents and ensures proper collection, production, and review of electronic data. Kate holds the global Certified e-Discovery Specialist (CEDS) credential, a global recognition that assures clients and co-counsel that our approaches are compliant, efficient, cost-effective, and reduces risk in all phases of e-Discovery. In addition, Kate is a key part of the firm’s multidistrict litigation (MDL) teams. She serves as liaison director of e-Discovery and ESI on several MDL leadership committees nationwide and has worked on landmark MDL matters. Indeed, Kate was recognized for her product liability work in this year’s Chambers & Partners accolades in the nationwide plaintiffs category, among other recognitions.

Joshua I. Hammack handles complicated matters from their inception through appeal. He has briefed and argued appeals in state and federal courts across the country for a host of substantive legal areas, including Title IX, the Commerce Clause, contract interpretation, deed construction, statutes of limitation, and the Video Privacy Protection Act. He has briefed multiple issues to the Supreme Court of the United States. Josh was named a 2024 Lawdragon 500 X – The Next Generation in the Commercial Litigation and Appellate categories, among other accolades. 

James L. Kauffman is a consumer rights advocate and focuses on protecting the public from junk fees. James has successfully represented hundreds of thousands of consumers nationwide who were charged illegal fees junk in “pay to pay” schemes – where consumers must pay an extra fee just for paying their bills. Collectors call these “convenience fees” but usually these fees are for paying electronically, which is usually more convenient and economical for the collector than the consumer paying the extra fee.

Patricia Mulvoy Kipnis is the Practice Group Leader of the firm’s nationwide Consumer Litigation Practice Group and concentrates her practice on consumer class actions, complex litigation, and appellate advocacy. As an experienced litigator, she pursues consumer claims on behalf of state and national classes. Trish regularly handles cases stemming from a full range of deceptive, unfair, and fraudulent business practices. In recent years, Trish has been one of the firm’s leaders in challenging “Pay-to-Pay” and other “junk fees” imposed on consumers by mortgage servicers and other debt collectors through class action litigation in state and federal courts around the country.

Jonathan R. Marshall is the Practice Area Leader of the firm's entire contingency side and also leads the firm’s TCPA and Employment Practice Groups, which focuses on numerous areas of consumer law including TCPA litigation, and wage-and-hour class actions. Jonathan is a Director of the Center for Consumer Law and Education at West Virginia University College of Law, where he also teaches. In addition, he is a past President of the Council of Presidents, American Association for Justice.  

D. Todd Mathews, a partner in our St. Louis-area office, leads the teams that have been fighting for justice on behalf of hundreds of victims of sexual abuse in Maryland, Illinois, and beyond. During the past two decades, Todd Mathews has secured numerous multimillion-dollar trial verdicts and settlements on behalf of his clients, successfully representing plaintiffs nationwide across product liability, personal injury, employment, sexual abuse, class action, mass tort, and whistleblower cases.

Michael L. Murphy is a nationally-recognized leader in cutting-edge privacy litigation on behalf of consumers and has extensive experience litigating consumer class actions and an impactful range of other cases in federal and state courts across the country including handling cases related to mortgage lending and finance, privacy, telemarketing, and PPP loans. Mr. Murphy is nationally recognized for his plaintiff-side work, including being ranked Band One in the Chambers & Partners District of Columbia - Band One; Litigation: Mainly Plaintiffs category. His work includes being involved in the largest antitrust settlement in U.S. healthcare history ($2.8 billion) in the Blue Cross Blue Shield MDL, a long-running antitrust lawsuit representing healthcare providers nationwide. 

David L. Selby II is the firm's Mass Torts Practice Group Leader, and leads teams that fight for sexual abuse survivors and people injured by defective products like firearms. David led what the International Business Times called a “landmark legal concession” against firearm maker Taurus International Manufacturing as part of a $239 million class action settlement. In the agreement, the gun manufacturer agreed to repair or replace defective firearm parts, as well as buy back or replace nearly one million pistols.

As set forth by Lawdragon in announcing the awards:

We are honored to introduce The 2025 Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Consumer Lawyers. Nowhere in the American legal system’s civil side does an individual have quite the same potential to change a life. Or many.

With more than 340 million people; 233 million licensed drivers; nearly 161,000 miles of highway; 45,000 daily flights taking off; more than 50 million annual surgeries, 1.2 million people living in nursing homes – what could possibly go wrong? And that’s just in the U.S.

So when someone says we have too many lawyers, think about it. The truth is, most Americans have an incredibly difficult time finding a lawyer who is qualified – forget competent and caring – to represent them when they experience medical malpractice, a family member’s tragic death, injury in a car crash, or become ill and die from a medication.

That’s why we’re so proud to present this amazing collection of coast-to-coast champions who dedicate their lives to helping people going through the hardest moments of their lives. Included here are the lawyers who specialize in airline crashes, oilfield accidents, workplace violence, sexual assault and abuse, human trafficking, premises liability, personal injury, wrongful death, product liability, toxic torts and other consumer-focused litigation.

It is true, as well, that many of these lawyers make a very good living when they win justice and compensation for their clients from companies and defendants who denied it to them, or insurers who would not pay. But if you spend time with any of these lawyers – and we’re talking about the very most successful lawyers at the tippy top of this practice – you’d be amazed how much they care so much more about the people they help than any financial rewards they’ve earned.

We selected the Plaintiff Consumer 500 through our time-honed method combining journalistic research, peer discussion and an ever-growing number of submissions.