More than
$2.4 BILLION
Recovered
For our clients
Kaiser shipyard worker, c. 1943. Shipyards remain the single largest source of occupational mesothelioma in the United States.
Who we are
The attorneys at Tudo Law Firm are nationwide leaders in asbestos litigation. Our team has more than twenty years of experience litigating mesothelioma claims, supported by paralegals and investigators who work on nothing else.
Since we began handling these cases we have represented clients in thousands of asbestos exposure claims and hundreds of mesothelioma lawsuits. We have obtained over $2.4 Billion in verdicts, settlements and trust distributions. We are still doing this work, and still of the view that the companies that knew should pay for what they did.
What that means in practice is unglamorous. It means an archive of internal industry memoranda going back to the 1930s. It means depositions of corporate witnesses that other firms take from scratch. It means we can usually tell you, in the first conversation, which products were in the plant you worked at and which companies are still solvent enough to pay.
We answer the phone 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Why clients choose us
i.
More than 120 years of combined trial experience in asbestos litigation. We have taken these cases to verdict in eleven states, which is why defendants take our settlement positions seriously.
ii.
We have recovered over $2.4 Billion for people harmed by asbestos, through jury verdicts, confidential settlements and bankruptcy trust distributions.
iii.
Every file is staffed with a trial lawyer, a case manager and a medical records paralegal from day one. You will always know exactly who to call.
iv.
Where a client's health is declining we petition for an expedited trial setting. Getting compensation while it can still be used is part of the job, not an afterthought.
From the archive
Our clients worked in these places. The record of what the industry knew, and when, is what turns a diagnosis into a claim.
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In their words
Comments from clients and from family members of clients. Initials are used at their request.
They explained every filing before it happened, in words my father could follow. He was eighty-one and had never spoken to a lawyer in his life. By the end he was asking about the case himself, which the doctors said was the best sign they had seen in months.
– R.M.
★★★★★
I called four firms the week I was diagnosed. Tudo was the only one where a lawyer, not a screener, called me back the same day. They had already found the plant records by the time we met in person.
– J.T.
★★★★★
My husband worked forty-one years as a pipefitter and never knew what was in the lagging. The firm tracked down two of his old crew as witnesses. Those men came to court for him. I will never forget that.
– Carol B.
★★★★★
What I remember most is that they moved fast. They asked the court for an early trial date because of my prognosis, and they got it. I was there to see it finish.
– D.W.
★★★★★
The settlement paid for the home health aide and the oxygen concentrator, and it took the money worry off my mother so she could just be with him.
– A. and P.K.
★★★★★
I was a Navy boiler tender and I assumed the VA was all I could do. They handled the VA side and the lawsuit side together and explained where each one ended.
– G.F.
★★★★★
Everyone I dealt with, from the front desk to the trial team, treated my mother like she mattered. That sounds small. When you are that sick, it is not small.
– L.H.
★★★★★
I never saw the inside of a courtroom and I never had to. They kept me informed enough that I understood the offer when it came, and why they thought it was the right one.
– B.E.
★★★★★
Nine months from my first phone call to money in the bank. I had been told by another lawyer to expect three years.
– Anon.
★★★★★
What we handle
Asbestos is the core of the practice. Alongside it we take a limited number of other occupational disease, product liability and catastrophic injury cases.
Beyond asbestos
The same investigative work that identifies a 1968 insulation supplier also identifies a talc supplier, a benzene-bearing solvent or a defective medical device. We take a limited number of those cases each year, usually for clients or families we already represent.
Our attorneys
You will work directly with an attorney, not a case screener. The lawyer who signs your file is the lawyer who stands up at trial if the case goes that far.
Founding Partner
Founded the firm's asbestos practice in 2004 and has tried mesothelioma cases to verdict in eleven states. Lead counsel on the firm's largest single-plaintiff recovery.
Managing Partner
Runs the firm's trial teams and case-selection committee. Twenty-two years litigating occupational disease claims against insulation and gasket manufacturers.
Partner, Trial Division
Focuses on secondary household exposure cases, particularly claims brought by spouses and children of insulators and shipyard tradesmen.
Partner, Veterans Practice
A former Navy machinist's mate. Coordinates the firm's VA benefits work alongside civil claims for Navy, Coast Guard and Merchant Marine veterans.
Start here
Most people who reach this site were given a diagnosis in the last few weeks and have never spoken to a lawyer. There is nothing to decide today. These pages explain what a claim actually involves.
The firm funds research grants and patient travel assistance through the Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation.
Community workWe accept referrals and co-counsel arrangements from firms that do not handle asbestos work.
Refer a caseWe hire trial lawyers, paralegals and intake staff across all nine offices.
Open positionsRecognition
Nationwide practice
Asbestos cases are rarely filed where the client lives. They are filed where the exposure happened, or where the defendant can be sued. We keep offices near the courts that hear them — and we travel to clients who cannot travel to us.
There is no charge for a case review and no fee unless we recover money for you. We will tell you honestly whether you have a claim worth bringing.
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