Author: Bailey Glasser

Brian Glasser Named One of the Top 250 Lawyers in the U.S. by Forbes

Forbes “set out to build one of the most exclusive lists of lawyers in the United States”; this is the second straight year Brian has been included.

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Bailey Glasser founding partner Brian A. Glasser has been named one of “America’s Top Lawyers” by Forbes in its second annual list, which this year includes the top 250 lawyers in the United States.

Forbes describes its criteria as follows:

We are often asked, How does an attorney earn the Forbes’ editorial imprimatur? The answer is simple: A top lawyer offers more than legal acumen—they are a trusted counselor in every sense of the word. An advisor and interpreter; a fierce negotiator and zealous advocate. Clients need an attorney who can be both a sword and a shield. And with such armament in mind, we set out to build one of the most exclusive lists of lawyers in the United States. These elite practitioners demonstrate loyalty, capability and leadership in the law—suited up and, if needed, ready for battle. Our lens is focused on service and depth, identifying the legal professionals a business or individual can turn to—in good times or bad.

In 2025 alone, Brian co-led the team that defeated Johnson & Johnson’s third “Texas Two-Step” bankruptcy attempt on behalf of tens of thousands of talc claimants before a federal bankruptcy court in Texas, thereby preserving their constitutional right to have their cases heard by a jury of their peers. Learn more about the J&J victory here.

Brian also won a major trial, as lead trial counsel, against State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance. In this matter, a unanimous Arkansas jury delivered a verdict against State Farm, finding that the insurer breached its contract when it deployed a valuation scheme to systematically underpay approximately 37,000 Arkansas policyholders whose vehicles were declared total losses. Brian was recently featured by CBS News in a segment about that case, learn more and watch the CBS video here.

Brian is a Rhodes scholar and founding partner of the firm who has fearlessly tried cases in 18 different states, including two mass actions and six class actions. In addition to this Forbes accolade, Brian is a 2026 Lawdragon 500 Leading Litigator in America, is Band One ranked by Chambers & Partners, and has received many other awards and rankings that reflect his hard work and dedication.

Brian Glasser Featured in Law.Com on State Farm Trial Victory

In this interview, Brian highlights that the jury verdict proves class actions remain an essential tool for protecting consumers against powerful corporations, with damages in this case estimated to be between $30 to $40 million.

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Law.com published an article highlighting Bailey Glasser founding partner Brian Glasser and his role as lead trial counsel in a major class action verdict against State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company. A federal jury in Arkansas unanimously found that State Farm used a flawed vehicle valuation system to underpay approximately 37,000 policyholders on total-loss claims.

In this interview, Brian highlights that the jury verdict proves class actions remain an essential tool for protecting consumers against powerful corporations, with damages in this case estimated to be between $30 to $40 million.

Brian points out that this decision is part of a larger national fight over whether class actions will continue to be available in consumer cases, and he issued a warning about the growing role of algorithms and artificial intelligence in shaping everyday decisions: “We have to hold the people who build the algorithms to some kind of standard of ethics and propriety . . . . The law has not caught up to the way computers run our lives.”

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CBS News Reports on Bailey Glasser Trial Victory Against State Farm

Lead trial counsel Brian Glasser and client Rose Chadwick were interviewed by CBS News.

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CBS News featured our landmark class action lawsuit against State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company in a MoneyWatch segment, reported by consumer correspondent Ash-har Quraishi. Lead counsel Brian A. Glasser is featured, along with our client.

Five years ago, Rose Chadwick—the lead plaintiff in this case and our courageous client—lost her car in a total-loss accident. She submitted a claim to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, the insurance company she had for 30 years. Unbeknownst to her, however, State Farm undervalued her car by using a computer program that reduced her car’s value by over five hundred dollars. State Farm then underpaid Ms. Chadwick, just as it did with tens of thousands of other Arkansas customers based on this computer program. Ms. Chadwick sued State Farm on behalf of all of them. Ms. Chadwick described to CBS News that she trusted her insurer of over three decades: “… that’s what I pay them for, to be fair with me.”

At trial, a unanimous Arkansas jury delivered a verdict against State Farm, finding that the insurer breached its contract when it deployed a valuation scheme to systematically underpay approximately 37,000 Arkansas policyholders whose vehicles were declared total losses. The jury also decided that Ms. Chadwick and the class members were owed damages in the amount that State Farm underpaid on each of their vehicles.

As Brian Glasser states in the segment: “The computer program that State Farm used to calculate the replacement value of the car did it systematically unfairly.” Moreover, Mr. Glasser states: “State Farm moves billions of dollars to people for their broken cars every year and insurance companies around America do similar numbers, so … these computer programs that calculate the value of your replacement vehicle affect billions of dollars every year.”

Read more here and watch the full video.

Bailey Glasser Lawyers Named to 2026 Lawdragon Top 500 Lawyers in America List

Brian Glasser, Kate Charonko, Cary Joshi, and David Selby joined this esteemed list in 2026.

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Bailey & Glasser, LLP partners Brian A. Glasser, Katherine E. Charonko, Cary Joshi, and David L. Selby II have been named to the 2026 Lawdragon 500 Leading Litigators in America list. This recognition honors the nation’s most accomplished courtroom advocates and highlights the firm’s ongoing success in complex litigation, mass torts, appellate advocacy, and e-discovery.

About the Lawdragon 500 Leading Litigators in America

According to Lawdragon, the lawyers honored in this guide “have made their mark representing clients in their most important courtroom, investigative, and administrative battles. They have changed the course of industry and individual businesses, shaped our nation and the enforcement of its laws, and continued to uphold the role of the law as a beacon and shared imperative.” This year’s list reflects a record-breaking number of submissions, combined with extensive independent research and vetting among the nation’s top trial lawyers.

Learn more about this year’s winners at this link.

Partner Todd Mathews Appears on “Full Measure” Program

Partner D. Todd Mathews appeared on “Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson” to fight for clients who were sexually abused as youths while in the custody of the State of Maryland.

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“Everybody [knew], because it was happening to all of us.”

Bailey Glasser partner D. Todd Mathews appeared on “Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson” along with our brave client Patricia Thomas on Sunday, May 19. As described by Ms. Thomas, after she was forced to run away from an abusive home as a teenager, she ended up at the Thomas J.S. Waxter Children’s Center where was abused by staff members over many years: “I was sexually assaulted there. I didn’t even feel safe to take a shower.”

The staff at the Center knew what was happening to her, and all the other children placed there, at the hands of known predators in their midst. Ms. Thomas, just like many of her fellow survivors, later turned to drugs and alcohol, and even attempted suicide, to block out the horrific memories of abuse.

The Maryland General Assembly passed a law in 2023 to permit survivors like Ms. Thomas to seek justice but abruptly slashed the financial compensation available to survivors by more than half in April 2025.

Nothing can undo the damage done to the survivors by the state actors who preyed upon these vulnerable children. The only measure of justice available in the legal system is monetary, so we continue to fight for the full measure of justice to help all the people harmed in systems that knew what was happening yet cruelly turned a blind eye to the children in their custody who needed their help and protection.

Learn more about our work on behalf of Maryland sex abuse survivors here.

You can watch the news segment below.