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BG 2025 Chambers & Partners Rankings Video

“Bailey & Glasser is smart and aggressive. They will go to war for you but do so intelligently.” – Chambers Reference

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We’re honored to be recognized once again by Chambers & Partners in its 2025 rankings — including new litigation group rankings for our Alabama and Idaho offices. We’re also ranked in national categories for product liability and ERISA, earned Band 1 honors in Washington, D.C. and West Virginia for litigation and corporate law, and received recognition across numerous additional practice areas and jurisdictions.

As one litigation reference described: “[t]he firm has a tremendous bench, all of whom have the experience, passion and trial skill to bring significant value to any litigation.” And on the corporate side, one reference stated: “Bailey & Glasser is smart and aggressive. They will go to war for you but do so intelligently.” We are grateful to everyone, particularly our clients and co-counsel, who took the time to participate in the process.

For a detailed overview of this year’s rankings, visit this webpage.

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BG Receives Top Chambers Rankings in 2025

Thank you to everyone who participated in our top Chambers rankings.

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Bailey & Glasser, LLP lawyers and practice areas have been ranked by Chambers & Partners in the 2025 edition of Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business.

Published by London-based Chambers and Partners, the annual Chambers USA guide ranks firms and attorneys in a wide range of practice areas based on in-depth research, and client and peer interviews. As the preeminent guide of the legal industry, Chambers evaluates attorneys based on their legal knowledge and experience, ability and effectiveness, and client service.

In 2025, we had two offices join our Chambers-ranked practice groups: Alabama in the Litigation, Mainly Plaintiffs category and Idaho in the Litigation: General Commercial category.

The full firm rankings are below. Thank you to Chambers & Partners, and everyone involved in the process, for these recognitions. We work hard on behalf of our clients and love what we do.

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Benjamin L. Bailey: Litigation: General Commercial, West Virginia (Band 1)

Brian A. Glasser: Litigation: General Commercial (Band 1); Corporate/Commercial, West Virginia

Katherine E. Charonko: Nationwide, Product Liability: Plaintiffs

Jonathan S. Deem: Corporate/Commercial, West Virginia (Band 1)

Jennifer S. Fahey: Corporate/Commercial, West Virginia

Nicholas S. Johnson: Litigation: Mainly Plaintiffs, Washington, D.C.

Cary Joshi: Litigation: Mainly Plaintiffs, Washington, D.C.

Michael L. Murphy: Litigation: Mainly Plaintiffs, Washington, D.C. (Band 1)

Gregory Y. Porter: ERISA Litigation: Mainly Plaintiffs, USA – Nationwide

John Roddy: Massachusetts; Litigation: General Commercial

Benjamin A. Schwartzman: Litigation: General Commercial, Idaho

David L. Selby II: Nationwide, Product Liability: Plaintiffs

Practice Group Rankings:

Product Liability: Plaintiffs, USA-Nationwide

ERISA Litigation: Mainly Plaintiffs, USA-Nationwide

Corporate/Commercial, West Virginia (Band 1)

Litigation, Mainly Plaintiffs, Alabama

Litigation: Mainly Plaintiffs, District of Columbia (Band 1)

Litigation: General Commercial, Idaho

Litigation: General Commercial, West Virginia (Band 1)

Brian Glasser Featured in Bloomberg Law Article

Brian Glasser co-led the trial team that successfully challenged J&J’s third bankruptcy filing.

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Brian Glasser is quoted in a Bloomberg Law article about challenges certain law firms representing talc claimants are facing since Johnson & Johnson lost its third attempt to dispose of 90,000 claims in bankruptcy using the controversial “Texas Two Step” procedure.

As noted in the article, “[a]fter its first two bankruptcy efforts collapsed under court scrutiny, J&J retooled its approach by inking agreements with a growing network of plaintiffs’ firms. In a final run at the Two-Step strategy last year, newly created subsidiary Red River Talc LLC filed for bankruptcy in Houston proclaiming more than 80% of claimants were backing a Chapter 11 plan.” Because the third bankruptcy failed, firms representing thousands of potential claimants are now required to file individual lawsuits on behalf of their clients by mid-June 2025.

Mr. Glasser co-led a trial team that challenged J&J’s third bankruptcy filing in a two-week trial before the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Houston in February 2025, representing the Coalition of Counsel for Justice for Talc Claimants, which included thousands of women injured by J&J’s talc products, some of whom died in the months before the matter was tried. These claimants did not wish to have their claims handled by the bankruptcy court, instead preferring their cases be presented to a jury of their peers as guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.

On March 31, 2025, in a 57-page opinion, the federal bankruptcy court ruled that the totality of the record required dismissal, including noting that the record included prepetition voting and solicitation irregularities and an unreasonably short voting time for thousands of creditors. The Court also noted that “There is no real company or jobs to save here. This case is about whether voters will accept a deal.”

To read the full Bloomberg Law article, visit this link.

To learn more about Bailey Glasser’s victory in the Red River Talc matter, visit this webpage.

Survivors and Attorneys Speak Out About Sex Abuse in Cook County Juvenile Court System

“We’ve got folks as young as 9 years old who were abused. This happened over and over and over again from 1995 until current. It’s still going on. We will continue to have press conferences and file lawsuits until the folks in Springfield and Cook County hear us and do something.”

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“We’ve got folks as young as 9 years old who were abused. This happened over and over and over again from 1995 until current. It’s still going on. We will continue to have press conferences and file lawsuits until the folks in Springfield and Cook County hear us and do something.”

This was a statement made by BG partner D. Todd Mathews at a press conference last week in Chicago, where he, co-counsel, and several plaintiffs spoke about the abuse and injuries suffered at the hands of adult employees at the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center between 1995 and 2022.

As detailed in the new round of lawsuits filed July 22, the State of Illinois; the Office of the Chief Judge for Cook County, Illinois; the Illinois Department of Corrections and Department of Juvenile Justice employees failed to protect children from rampant sexual abuse perpetrated by adult employees between 1995 and 2022, when hundreds of youths between 9-17 years old were systematically victimized. This filing comes on the heels of two other lawsuits filed this year, which now raises the total number of plaintiffs to nearly 400.

The Bailey Glasser team also includes founding partner Brian A. Glasser; partner and Mass Tort Practice Group Leader David Selby; and lawyer Samira Bode. Levy Konigsberg serves as co-counsel for the plaintiffs.

To watch the full press conference, visit here.

To lean more information about this case and to see additional media coverage, visit here.

Avoiding a Difficult Corporate Divorce: BG Successfully Reorganizes Media Company

BG Partner Jeff Craven guided the owner of a top D.C. media strategy and public affairs company through a “corporate divorce.”

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Avoiding a difficult corporate divorce: BG partner Jeff Craven recently served as counsel for the leader of a top D.C. media strategy and public affairs company who wished to buy out her two partners when their vision for the company was no longer aligned, which was complicated because the Operating Agreement didn’t provide sufficient guidance for the “corporate divorce.” A mediation also failed.

Jeff, and lawyers for the other partners, organized a structured process to draft a detailed Letter of Intent which, once executed, was easily converted to a Settlement Agreement and Release. The terms allowed our client to purchase the other two owners’ interests, largely on a deferred basis and with appropriate security devices and reasonable restrictive covenants that gave each party confidence that the longer-term outcome contemplated under the Agreement would be realized.

Through this process, the parties avoided litigation by finding a creative, balanced solution that allowed the parties to divide the assets while maintaining the business’s value.

Jeff Craven commented: “It’s often best to find a way to air out differences and identify counsel who can construct a creative and balanced approach where nobody is entirely happy and each party gives a little, but everyone can point to an important element of the deal that is valuable to them. As with marital assets, finding common ground can be dicey, but by being honest about what’s most (and least) important, creative counsel can help frame a way to divide the assets and craft a path forward so that the value of the business can be maintained, even as its pieces are held separately, and even on a secured debt basis.”

“The alternative, litigation, is almost always more upsetting and expensive. This is also a good reminder for entrepreneurs that having an Operating Agreement that covers the operating of an entity as well as its dissolution (in all of its forms) is a best practice,” he added.

Jeff understands the many lifecycles that companies experience and handles the beginning, middle, and end of many corporate issues. He also regularly acts as a fractional Outside General Counsel for companies who don’t need a full-time in-house counsel yet have sophisticated operations that could use sage corporate counsel.

For more about Jeff, visit here.
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