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Baum, Hedlund, Aristei & Goldman, PC
BaumHedlundLaw.com
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MICHAEL L. BAUM
MBaum@BaumHedlundLaw.com
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Aviation Accidents, Catastrophic Injury, Class Action Litigation, Complex and Multi-District
Litigation, Consumer Litigation, Mass Disaster Litigation, Pharmaceutical Drug Product Liability
Product Liability, Railroad Accidents, School Bus Accidents, Wrongful Death

Born:

Clinton, Oklahoma, 1952

Education:

University of California at Los Angeles (B.A., summa cum laude, 1982)
University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law (J.D., 1985)

Admissions:

California, 1985
U.S. District Court, Central District of California, 1986
US District Court, Eastern District of California, 1989
US District Court, Northern District of California, 1989
US Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, 1990
US District Court, Western District of Michigan, 1991
US Supreme Court, 1991
District of Columbia, 1993
US District Court, Northern District of Ohio, 1993
US Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit, 1996
US District Court, Northern District of New York, 1996
US Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit, 1997
US District Court, Western District of New York, 2009
US District Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin, 2009

Member:

State Bar of California
The District of Columbia Bar
Bar Association of the District of Columbia
Consumer Attorneys of California
Plaintiffs' Steering Committee, MDL 817, United Airlines Crash, Sioux City, Iowa, 1989
Trial Team Member, 1991-1992, United Airlines Crash, Sioux City, Iowa: Member, 1989
Plaintiffs' Steering Committee, MDL 891, Northwest Airlines Crash, Detroit, 1990
Plaintiffs' Steering Committee, MDL 1041, USAir 1016 Aircrash of Charlotte, North Carolina, 1994
Trial Team Member, 1997, USAir 1016 Aircrash of Charlotte, North Carolina, 1994
Plaintiffs' Steering Committee, Illinois State Court Proceedings for USAir 427 Aircrash near Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, 1994
Lead Counsel for 125 Consolidated Complex Biological-Medical Products Liability Cases, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1997-2001
Trial Team Member, Consolidated Hemophilia-AIDS Cases, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1999
Plaintiffs' Steering Committee, MDL-1574, Paxil Products Liability Litigation

Governmental Testimony:

Taiwan’s Ministry of Health emergency meeting regarding hemophilia HIV contaminated medication, February 18, 2004

Awards and Honors:

AV® 5.0 out of 5 Peer Review Rated through Martindale Hubbell
Listed, Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers
Who's Who in the World
Who's Who in America
Who's Who in American Law
Aviation Counsel Magazine's List of Recommended High Flyers, believed by the International Air Transport Association's Legal Dept. to be one of the most elite lists of aviation law practitioners
ever produced
National Air Disaster Foundation Safety Award, 2002
Selected to: Southern California Super Lawyers 2005

Published Cases:

In re Air Crash at Charlotte, N.C. on July 2, 1994, 982 F.Supp. 1052 (Dist. South Carolina 1995)
In re Air Crash at Charlotte, N.C. on July 2, 1994, 982 F.Supp. 1056 (Dist. South Carolina 1996)
In re Air Crash at Charlotte, N.C. on July 2, 1994, 982 F.Supp. 1060 (Dist. South Carolina 1996)
In re Air Crash at Charlotte, N.C. on July 2, 1994, 982 F.Supp. 1071 (Dist. South Carolina 1995)
Ex parte Knight Ridder, Inc., 982 F.Supp. 1080 (Dist. South Carolina 1997)
In re Air Crash at Charlotte, N.C. on July 2, 1994, 982 F.Supp. 1084 (Dist. South Carolina 1997)
In re Air Crash at Charlotte, N.C. on July 2, 1994, 982 F.Supp. 1086 (Dist. South Carolina 1997)
In re Air Crash at Charlotte, N.C. on July 2, 1994, 982 F.Supp. 1092 (Dist. South Carolina 1997)
Smith v. Cutter Biological, 770 So. 2d 392 (La. App. 4th Cir. 2000)
Grisham v. Philip Morris USA, 403 F. 3d 631 (9th Cir. 2005)
Grisham v. Philip Morris USA, 40 Cal.4th 623, 151 P.3d 1151, 54 Cal.Rptr.3d 735 (2007)
Grisham v. Philip Morris USA, 482 F. 3d 1131 (9th Cir. 2007)
Collins v. SmithKline Beecham Corp., 2008 WL 744070 (Pa. Ct.Com.Pl. March 11, 2008)
Mason v. SmithKline Beecham Corp., __F.3d __, 2010 WL 605922 (7th Cir. Feb. 23, 2010) (reversing district court’s preemption ruling and holding that plaintiffs’ claims are not preempted by federal law)
Dorsett v. Sandoz, Inc., __F.Supp.2d __, 2010 WL 1174204 (C.D.Cal. 2010)

Practice Areas:

Aviation Accidents
Catastrophic Injury
Class Action Litigation
Complex and Multi-District Litigation
Consumer Litigation
Mass Disaster Litigation
Pharmaceutical Drug Product Liability
Product Liability
Railroad Accidents and Injuries
School Bus Accidents
Wrongful Death Law