Practice Areas
Honors + Affiliations
Member, State Bar of California, Environmental Section & Litigation Section
Member, American Bar Association, Toxic Torts and Environmental Law Committee
Member, American Bar Association, Environmental Law Committee of the Toxic and Insurance Practice Section
Member, Defense Research Institute
Member, Los Angeles Superior Court Bench & Bar Committee
Member, Los Angeles Bar Environmental Law Committee
Listed, The Best Lawyers in America (2006–2009)
Listed, Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business (2008)
Listed, Southern California Super Lawyer (2006)
Bar Admissions
- California
- Los Angeles
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300 South Grand Ave, 22nd Fl.
Los Angeles, CA 90071-3132
Phone: 213.612.2510
Fax: 213.612.2501
V. Thomas Meador III is a partner in Morgan Lewis's Litigation Practice. Mr. Meador has been handling mass toxic tort cases, product liability, and environmental litigation as lead trial counsel for more than 20 years. He has defended cases involving manufacturers of a variety of products and chemicals, including benzene, lead, petroleum products, chromium, chlorinated solvents, pesticides, mold, and arsenic. His experience includes litigating mass toxic tort cases where thousands of plaintiffs are claiming personal injury and property damage allegedly as a result of air, soil, and groundwater contamination.
Mr. Meador is currently the lead trial attorney for one of the defendants in the consolidated Lockheed mass toxic litigation. He has participated in numerous Daubert and Kelly-Frye pretrial hearings resulting in the dismissal of thousands of plaintiffs. He has also successfully defended other personal injury and property damage claims on the grounds the claims were barred by the statute of limitations, no causation, and that the damages were too speculative.
Mr. Meador is admitted to practice in California.
Education
- University of California, Los Angeles School of Law, 1978, J.D.
- University of California, Los Angeles, 1975, B.A.