Roe Frazer is a “first chair” trial lawyer with four decades of experience in complex litigation, securing billions of dollars in trial verdicts and settlements on behalf of plaintiffs in nationwide federal and state courts.  He is lead counsel in many complex litigation cases, often working collaboratively with multiple law firms. Roe has tried well more than 100 cases during his career, including many complex litigation and environmental cases. He has had appellate arguments in many courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court. Carrying a Martindale AV+ rating, Roe speaks and writes on a variety of legal topics.  He graduated from Samford University’s Cumberland School of Law in 1985, where he was the: Editor-in-Chief of the Cumberland Law Review, the Co-Captain of the National Moot Court Team, and elected to the Order of Barristers. Roe earned his B.A. in Politics at Wake Forest University (1982).

 Roe’s representative cases include the following:

• Lead counsel for 81 Vermont public school districts for abatement and remediation of PCB contamination, with all cases pending in federal court in District of Vermont.
• Lead counsel for catastrophically injured child and the child’s mother in infant powder formula bacterial meningitis case.
• Lead counsel for numerous PCB personal injury plaintiffs in multiple jurisdictions.
• Lead trial counsel in state court litigation for cancer personal injury plaintiffs against manufacturers of baby powder.
• Lead trial counsel for numerous plaintiffs in ethylene oxide exposure cancer litigation.
• Plaintiff’s Executive Committee and Co-Chair of Water Providers Committee, In re Aqueous Film-Forming Foams (AFFF) Products Liability Litigation, MDL No. 2:18-mn-2873-RMG (D.S.C.) (appointed by Honorable Richard Gergel, U.S. District Judge).
• Lead Counsel for Municipal Water Providers in Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Florida, New Jersey, New York, Vermont, Connecticut, and California, In re AFFF Products Liability Litigation, MDL No. 2873.
• Co-Lead Counsel for numerous Camp Lejeune plaintiffs for their personal injuries due to contaminated drinking water (E.D.N.C.)
• Co-Lead Counsel for municipal water provider plaintiff alleging 1,4-dioxane pollution (E.D.N.Y.).
• Tribal Leadership Committee, In re National Prescription Opiates Litigation, MDL No. 1:17-md-02804-DAP (N.D. Ohio) (appointed by Honorable Dan Polster, U.S. District Judge), and Lead Counsel for numerous federally recognized Indian Tribal Governments.
• Member ex officio, Unsecured Creditors Committee, Purdue Pharma Bankruptcy (U.S. Bankruptcy Court, S.D.N.Y.).
• Lead Counsel for multiple school districts and Indian Tribes, as well as Lead Discovery Counsel for Tribal Leadership Committee, In re JUUL Labs, Inc. Marketing, Sales Practices, and Products Liability Litigation, MDL No. 19-md-02913-WHO (N.D. Cal.).
• Lead Trial Counsel for multiple plaintiffs with cancer cases against Monsanto in Roundup pesticide litigation.
• Co-Class counsel, Roberts, et al. v. Rice Energy, Inc., et al. (Court of Common Pleas Allegheny County, PA) (certified class of debenture holders).
• Lead trial counsel for the St. Regis Mohawk Nation in PCB remediation and damages case against Monsanto in St. Louis County, Missouri state court (settled in March 2023).
• Lead trial counsel, airborne dioxin pollution case against Cerro Flow Products in St. Clair County, Illinois. Jury verdict of $72 million for 12 bellwether plaintiffs in October 2021 (settled post-verdict prior to appeal).
• Co-Class Counsel, Chapman, et al. v. Voestalpine USA Corp., et al., 2:17-cv-00174 (S.D. Texas) ($18 million class settlement for property owners with air pollution property damages claims).    
• Lead counsel, numerous state court actions involving thousands of plaintiffs and claims against the manufacturers of the pharmaceutical drug Rezulin, including multi-million dollar verdict and settlements for thousands of individual plaintiffs and claimants.
• Lead plaintiffs’ counsel for multiple plaintiffs against Monsanto for PCB exposure (S.D. Miss.).
• Lead Counsel, Branch v. Weyerhaueser, resulting in a multi-million-dollar Alabama class action settlement in case involving paper mill water and soil pollution (dioxins and furans) and propertyy damages claims of riparian property owners.
• Co-Lead Class Counsel, In Re Polybutylene Pipe Litigation (Spencer vs. Shell Oil Co. et al.), consumer fraud litigation resulting in nationwide class action settlement.
• Lead trial counsel in hundreds of individual pharmaceutical drug and medical devices cases against pharmaceutical drug and medical device manufacturers, as well as products liability actions against automobile manufacturers.
• Lead trial counsel in variety of products liability lawsuits involving crashworthiness claims.
• Assisted Class Counsel in Pigford v. Glickman and U.S. Department of Agriculture (“The Black Farmers Case I”) (D.D.C).
• Plaintiffs’ counsel, In Re Sunset Limited Amtrak Train Crash Litigation, MDL No. 1003 (S.D. Ala.)

Other Law-Related Items of Interest

• Delegate (2018) Sixth Circuit Annual Judicial Conference.
• Founder and General Counsel, CaseLogistix, Inc. and Cicayda, LLC, ediscovery software companies.
• Author, numerous articles in law reviews and periodicals.
• Speaker, numerous CLEs and legal conferences, including Mass Torts Made Perfect.
• Former Member, Dean’s Advisory Board, Cumberland School of Law of Samford University.
• Member, Tennessee Trial Lawyers Association, American Association for Justice, Tennessee Bar Association, Nashville Bar Association, Mississippi Bar Association, Alabama Bar Association. 
• Admitted to U.S. Supreme Court, Mississippi Supreme Court, Alabama Supreme Court, Tennessee Supreme Court, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Eleventh U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals, U.S. Court of Claims, and U.S. District Courts for the Northern District of Wisconsin, Southern and Northern Districts of Mississippi, Northern, Middle, and Southern Districts of Alabama, Western, Middle, and Eastern Districts of Tennessee, Northern District of Florida, District of New Jersey, District of Vermont, and Southern District of Texas.
• “Top 100 Technology Thought Leaders in the World”, City Tech Magazine, London, U.K. (2006-07).
• Outstanding Trial Lawyer of the Year, Mississippi Trial Lawyers Association (1993).