Laura J. Baughman - Dallas, TX
3102 Oak Lawn AvenueSuite 1100Dallas, TX 75219- 4283
Baron & Budd, P.C.
Dallas Qui Tam Lawyer
Overview
Laura Baughman’s position at Baron & Budd calls upon her to exercise her knowledge as an attorney and environmental engineer.
Ms. Baughman manages the firm’s pharmaceutical litigation filed on behalf of individuals and public entities. Ms. Baughman represented seven public entities (the states of Mississippi, West Virginia, South Carolina, Kentucky, Maryland, New Mexico and Utah) against GlaxoSmithKline regarding misrepresentations made in the marketing of ...
Laura Baughman’s position at Baron & Budd calls upon her to exercise her knowledge as an attorney and environmental engineer.
Ms. Baughman manages the firm’s pharmaceutical litigation filed on behalf of individuals and public entities. Ms. Baughman represented seven public entities (the states of Mississippi, West Virginia, South Carolina, Kentucky, Maryland, New Mexico and Utah) against GlaxoSmithKline regarding misrepresentations made in the marketing of ...
Laura Baughman’s position at Baron & Budd calls upon her to exercise her knowledge as an attorney and environmental engineer.
Ms. Baughman manages the firm’s pharmaceutical litigation filed on behalf of individuals and public entities. Ms. Baughman represented seven public entities (the states of Mississippi, West Virginia, South Carolina, Kentucky, Maryland, New Mexico and Utah) against GlaxoSmithKline regarding misrepresentations made in the marketing of the diabetes drug Avandia. This litigation recently settled for over $170 million. Currently, Ms. Baughman represents individual personal injury and wrongful death victims and public entities regarding harm caused by Granuflo, used during dialysis. Ms. Baughman is also actively working on Lipitor and Transvaginal Mesh litigation.
As managing shareholder of the firm’s Qui Tam litigation team, Ms. Baughman focuses on strategies to ferret out and litigate against those who have perpetrated fraud against the government. Sometimes called "whistleblower" cases, Ms. Baughman’s team handles a variety of cases in which the government has been defrauded of Medicare, Medicaid, defense and other monies. Ms. Baughman is a member of Taxpayers Against Fraud, a non-profit organization dedicated to combating fraud and educating taxpayers about the realities of fraud.
In addition, Ms. Baughman leads the firm’s work in California involving Proposition 65 litigation. She served as co-lead counsel in a California Proposition 65 water contamination case that required several major oil companies to clean up groundwater that had been contaminated by gasoline leaking from storage tanks and to take steps to prevent similar leaks in the future. The settlement was valued at $107 million. Ms. Baughman settled another Proposition 65 case which required the retrofitting of school buses with devices to reduce diesel engine exhaust emissions, a known human carcinogen. Ms. Baughman is currently counsel on a case seeking to require the disclosure of elevated levels of lead in certain brands of children’s fruit juice, canned fruits and baby food.
In addition to her legal advocacy, Ms. Baughman has a long history of community service. She has represented several clients on a pro bono basis through the Dallas Volunteer Attorney Program and over the years has served as co-chair of several committees for Attorneys Serving the Community. Formerly a member of the Dallas Bar Association’s Community Involvement Committee, she was the chair of the group’s "Lawyers Have Heart" 5-K run benefiting the American Heart Association. While in law school, Baughman was the vice president of Texas Law Fellowships, a non-profit public interest organization.
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